For the last three decades, enormous manufacturing processes have been widely employed in the field of transportation (aviation, automobile, and marine) as well as various industrial sectors. Among the invented techniques, conventional manufacturing plays a versatile and cost-effective role, but additive manufacturing (AM) possesses a more significant advantage in handling complicated parts or complex geometrical structures. The conventional processes were used from ancient times until the development of other advanced techniques. In the recent development of technology, AM technology has shown a tremendous change in the manufacturing field. The process of development in AM began with polymers, then to composites, and advanced to nanocomposites continuously. AM provides a waste-free production management system with enhanced processes. Therefore, this detailed and compendious review describes the different stainless steels fabricated through conventional and AM techniques. It is evident that AM proves better than other several conventional techniques by three-dimensional (3D) printing of quality and complex stainless-steel components that are impossible to manufacture through other methods. Notwithstanding, there is still a need to improve AM technique by reducing the manufacturing cost, supporting mass production, and printing large stainless-steel components. With an increase in the invention of various efficient state-of-the-art engineering software, robots in manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and smart manufacturing, the aforementioned drawbacks of AM technique/3D printing of various stainless-steel structures will be soon eradicated.

在过去的三十年中，巨大的制造工艺已广泛应用于运输领域（航空、汽车和海洋）以及各个工业领域。在发明的技术中，传统制造具有通用性和成本效益，但增材制造 (AM) 在处理复杂零件或复杂几何结构方面具有更显着的优势。传统工艺从古代一直使用到其他先进技术的发展。在最近的技术发展中，AM技术在制造领域呈现出巨大的变化。AM 的发展过程始于聚合物，然后是复合材料，并不断发展为纳米复合材料。AM 提供具有增强流程的无浪费生产管理系统。所以，这篇详细而简明的评论描述了通过传统和增材制造技术制造的不同不锈钢。很明显，通过 3D 打印高质量和复杂的不锈钢部件，AM 证明比其他几种传统技术更好，而这些部件是无法通过其他方法制造的。尽管如此，仍然需要通过降低制造成本、支持大规模生产和打印大型不锈钢部件来改进 AM 技术。随着各种高效的尖端工程软件、制造机器人、人工智能和智能制造的发明增多，上述各种不锈钢结构增材制造技术/3D打印的弊端将很快被根除。