The Welding-Scale Front
Institutional investment in metal AM is concentrating at welding scale: naval sustainment orders, a nuclear reference case, and welding incumbents entering wire DED. Four months of AMPulse signal data, read with their limits.

- of July DED stories scored high-significance, #1 of any process
- 47%
- companies / countries carrying the July DED signal
- 29 / 14
- DED novelty rising while PBF significance declined
- 4 months
