Digital manufacturing is fundamentally transforming the way that companies develop, prototype and produce products today.

From providing an economical way to deal with low volume quantities and personalization of products to rapid delivery of both prototypes and finished products. This handbook presents the essential information that engineers need today to come up to speed on this critical trend, drilling down into how the software and hardware elements of digital manufacturing work and the notion of the digital thread, to the benefits companies can achieve using the tools of digital manufacturing and a specific example of how one company took a product from conception to market practically overnight.