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SOURCE: 100x faster, 10x cheaper: 3D metal printing is about to go mainstream
For those of you into product development and rapid prototyping, you might find this very interesting. From the article;
"Desktop Metal – remember the name. This Massachussetts company is preparing to turn manufacturing on its head, with a 3D metal printing system that's so much faster, safer and cheaper than existing systems that it's going to compete with traditional mass manufacturing processes.
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The hype is real. And if Desktop Metal delivers on its promises – that it can make reliable metal printing up to 100 times faster, with 10 times cheaper initial costs and 20 times cheaper materials costs than existing laser technologies, using a much wider range of alloys – these machines might be the tipping point for large scale 3D manufacturing.
The company is putting forward two systems: a studio system aimed at rapid, cheap metal prototyping for engineering groups, and a production system for mass manufacture."
Up until now, metal 3D printing has been expensive and more complicated than plastic printing - but if this is as good as it sounds, I can definitely see a lot of potential
For those of you into product development and rapid prototyping, you might find this very interesting. From the article;
"Desktop Metal – remember the name. This Massachussetts company is preparing to turn manufacturing on its head, with a 3D metal printing system that's so much faster, safer and cheaper than existing systems that it's going to compete with traditional mass manufacturing processes.
...
The hype is real. And if Desktop Metal delivers on its promises – that it can make reliable metal printing up to 100 times faster, with 10 times cheaper initial costs and 20 times cheaper materials costs than existing laser technologies, using a much wider range of alloys – these machines might be the tipping point for large scale 3D manufacturing.
The company is putting forward two systems: a studio system aimed at rapid, cheap metal prototyping for engineering groups, and a production system for mass manufacture."
Up until now, metal 3D printing has been expensive and more complicated than plastic printing - but if this is as good as it sounds, I can definitely see a lot of potential
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