What role does additive manufacturing play in seal development?

 Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is reshaping hydraulic seal development by compressing prototyping cycles from weeks to hours, enabling complex geometries that traditional molding cannot achieve, and allowing engineers to test custom seal designs for low-volume or legacy equipment without the cost of hard tooling. For decades, hydraulic seal development followed a rigid path: design a profile, commission a mold or machining tool, produce a sample batch, test it, and repeat the cycle if the design needed changes. 

Readmore : https://whyps.com/what-role-does-additive-manufacturing-play-in-seal-development