If 3D printing makes good on its promise, it will fundamentally change the way things are manufactured. And it could also become everyone’s best friend. Just imagine if for any broken part in your household, you could simply make a new one with your home printer.Thanks to advances made by an EU-funded research team, it is now possible to print advanced parts for motorbikes, cars, aircraft and even satellites using different materials and shapes while producing much less waste. It is even possible to embed electrical conductors or optical fibres that can act as sensors.Multilayered manufacturing This is because 3D printing…