3D printing: let’s not manufacture false dawns

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A concise blog from MIT’s transportation and logistics centre which asks the key questions about 3D printing and the challenges it poses for the supply chain. Typically, as is often the case with disruptive technology where the full ramifications have yet to be understood, there are more questions than answers, although it does raise the fascinating possibility of 3PLs becoming manufacturers in their own right.