The great promise of additive manufacturing lies in its ability to provide the reproducibility and reliability of current production processes while accommodating customer specifications and designs which are adapted to the desired application and not bound by available production methods. Alongside consumer goods such as jewelry, art and decorative items, competitive solutions already exist for some industrially-relevant product classes. The entry threshold for product development and production has been drastically reduced by additive manufacturing. Furthermore, the process offers an extremely efficient and low-cost production of components even for small batch sizes. This is a result of the short production periods without huge costs for complex tool-making, storage and transport. In summary: AGENT-3D intends to exploit the many opportunities and still-to-be-discovered potentials of additive manufacturing. This truly is a new industrial revolution!