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3D Printing: Short-Run Production

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Overview

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Discover why 3D printing is a viable alternative for short-run production. Review the benefits, costs, materials, and use cases for additive manufacturing.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Using 3D printers for short-run production
1. Analyzing Your Current Workflow
  • Analyzing your current products
  • Considering your current workflow
  • When products become digital
2. Risk Reduction: Trying Out Additive Manufacturing
  • Testing out additive candidates for a trial application
  • Printing with filament
  • Printing with resin
  • Printing with powder
3. Benefits and Case Studies
  • Reducing part count and lightweighting
  • Eliminating or reducing tooling
  • Bridge and surge manufacturing
  • Molds and casting
4. Costs
  • Learning curves
  • Big or small printers?
  • Capital outlay and maintenance: Filament printers
  • Capital outlay and maintenance: Resin printers
  • Capital outlay and maintenance: Powder printers
5. Medical and Dental
  • Medical and dental additive manufacturing issues
  • Dental applications
  • Medical additive manufacturing applications
  • Case study: Manufacturing personal protective equipment
6. Distributed Manufacturing
  • Getting started with distributed manufacturing
  • Field-deployable manufacturing
  • Distributed manufacturing challenges
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron

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