Lean Additive Manufacturing Using HIP and How Cost Reduction Involves the Entire Process Chain

For many years, additive manufacturing has been used to produce new features and production designs to benefit the user and application. AM (Additive Manufacturing) is now moving into the industrialisation phase and companies are investing heavily to install full scale production facilities. There is increasing focus on repeatability, quality, and the overall need to reduce cost to compete with traditional production methods. Here, Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP), plays a key role.This paper with show examples of cost reduction whilst reducing environmental impact and ensuringproduct quality, with a focus on PBF (Powder Bed Fusion)