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Laser power, scan speed, hatch spacing, layer thickness — the four knobs you can actually turn. How they interact, and how we approach optimisation without getting lost in the DoE.

How we took a hydraulic manifold assembly with twelve components and redesigned it as a single printed part. What changed, what stayed, and what we'd do differently next time.

Powder quality sets the ceiling on part quality. The characteristics we monitor, the tests we run, and how we manage powder across reuse cycles.

AM has genuine environmental advantages, but the marketing tends to overstate them. Here's how we apply LCA to real production parts — and where the numbers actually land.