# Advanced Manufacturing

> Advanced manufacturing fuses additive techniques, robotics, and AI-driven process control to make complex parts at scale. It recruits mechanical and materials engineers from academia and partners with university labs on metal printing and digital-factory research.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/industries/advanced-manufacturing/](https://selltoscientists.com/industries/advanced-manufacturing/)*

**Market size:** $390B
**Target researcher profile:** Mechanical and materials engineers in additive manufacturing, process control, robotics, and computer vision

## Use cases

- Additive-manufacturing R&D hiring
- In-situ process-monitoring development
- University manufacturing-lab partnerships
- Automated factory-software talent pipeline
- Aerospace and defense production collaborations

## Representative companies

- Velo3D
- Desktop Metal
- Markforged
- Carbon
- Seurat Technologies
- VulcanForms
- Relativity Space
- Hadrian
- Bright Machines
- Machina Labs