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