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Additive Manufacturing – Digital and Sustainable Manufacturing for the Creative Industry

Marco Luigi Giuseppe Grasso

Additive Manufacturing technologies are becoming increasingly established as inherently digital production solutions, capable of addressing the diverse needs of today’s competitive landscape. By enabling the production of complex, high-value-added products, these technologies help reduce development and manufacturing times and costs, while at the same time improving resource efficiency and significantly reducing waste. The growing pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence technologies represents a further enabling factor that is set to shape manufacturing competition in the years ahead, expanding opportunities for innovation across the entire value chain. In a constantly evolving environment, the creative industries — and the jewellery sector in particular — cannot overlook this technological dimension if they are to address future challenges by combining innovation, sustainability and design freedom.

Bio

Marco Luigi Giuseppe Grasso

Marco Grasso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where his research focuses on Additive Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence applied to advanced manufacturing. His work centres on the development of intelligent systems for in-process monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, combining machine vision, signal analysis and data mining techniques for complex data. He collaborates with institutions and companies at both national and international level, serves as Associate Editor of *Progress in Additive Manufacturing*, and teaches at Politecnico di Milano and at the Joint School of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.