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Ever hear of additive manufacturing (AM) technology? That was a new one for us. You may know it better by the phrase 3D printing. AM uses computers to control a machine that creates a product before your eyes. Very cool stuff, and increasingly, AM (3D printing) is the future. Five global oil and gas companies--ConocoPhillips, Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies and Vår Energi--have joined forces to standardize the digital supply of spare parts (using AM tech), setting an industry standard for a digital inventory ecosystem.
