Indian firm tesscornsystems recently installed the OptomecInc Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) 860 Machine Tool System at the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (CoEAMT) IITKgp. LENS systems use directed energy deposition (DED), where high-powered lasers build structures layer by layer directly from powdered metals, alloys, ceramics or composites to produce fully-dense parts with excellent mechanical and fatigue properties.3DMetalPrinting, making high quality metal stru