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Printing Proof: ‘FutureView’ on IMTS+ BY MICHELLE EDMONSON SENIOR DIRECTOR, EVENTS & CONTENT

aims to improve the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers while reducing their carbon footprint. Over the course of four episodes, “FutureView” introduces viewers to the people behind the machines at the MDF. In the first episode, the folks at the MDF take their very own moonshot, using the Big Area Additive Manufacturing machine to 3D print concrete molds to build machine tool bases. These molds are affordable, reusable, and can incorporate sensors. We learn about the “secret sauce” of the MDF in the second episode, which involves gathering a lot of smart people and

The future of additive manufacturing is taking shape layer by layer at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “FutureView,” brought to

you by ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions, is an IMTS+ Network Original Series that documents the development of technologies at the MDF that could revolutionize the manufacturing industry. A unique collaboration between government, industry, and academia developed by the Department of Energy, the MDF