Additive manufacturing continues to grow. The number of applications are on the rise, along with additive research. At this time last year, Paul Brackman was the only person working in the Zeiss Knoxville lab—today, he’s one of four full-time Zeiss staff at the lab, along with a team working in additive software applications at the Minneapolis headquarters, and a dedicated hardware team in Germany working on additive. It’s a large, global team and growing—which is a nice thing to be a part of, says Paul Brackman, additive manufacturing manager at ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
Additive is a priority at ZEISS, says Brackman. “We believe it is a really important thing for global manufacturing. We have invested a lot of resources into this lab, into the development work that’s going on in Germany and the U.S. It’s something we really believe in.”