The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World

By: Richard A. D'Aveni

Published October 16th 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Category: Business

Pages: 320 pages

ISBN: 9781328955906

Description:
A stunning look at what will happen to global industry as 3-D printing quickly becomes a worldwide phenomenonÐand how this will influence our economic and geopolitical landscape.
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Best?selling author Richard DÕAveni contends that the advent of massive, industrial?scale 3?D printing is already happening quietly under the radar, and that it will have a far?reaching impact that most corporate and governmental leaders have yet to anticipate or understand.

3-D printing, now called additive manufacturing, has moved far beyond a desktop technology used by hobbyists to churn out trinkets and toys. In this eye-opening account, DÕAveni reveals how recent breakthrough advances have been secretly adapted by powerful Fortune 500 companies so that they can now manufacture jet engines, huge turbines, airplanes, automobiles, and so much more in a greatly shortened time frame. Ê

Not only is this revolutionary technology transforming the landscape of manufacturing everywhere, but as DÕAveni contends, it is also destined to have a dramatic effect on the world economy. A handful of massively powerful corporationsÑwhat DÕAveni calls pan?industrialsÑwill become as important as any tech giant in re-structuring the global order.