I’m a huge proponent of clustered manufacturing. I believe that for many manufacturing parts clusters of FDM printers are the most economical solution for tough durable parts. Especially for parts larger than around five centimeters, FDM is the option that would work best.

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If a wide variety of materials is needed then FDM would also be at a distinct advantage. Large FDM systems would also be an alternative if reliability is your main concern and material variety was less important. Open systems don’t lock you into a vendor and let you have the lowest cost and widest choice of materials also. But there is still a wide gap to bridge between the current generation desktop printers and manufacturing millions of parts at scale. Surprisingly little work has been done on automating prints in 3D print clusters. Generally, there hasn’t also been much truly innovative work done lately. 3DQue does […]

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