Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is widely acknowledged to be revolutionary. On short-term, AM will alter the manufacturing and logistics landscape and on the long-term scale, it will have a significant impact towards our common climate goals, by reducing the weight of components and providing novel near-net-shape manufacturing. Technological advances when it comes to the high-power robust energy sources, improvements in data handling and automation during last two decades, resulted in the significant advance of AM technology, transforming it from a method for rapid prototyping into the high-tech production technology for advanced high-quality components.