{"id":3261,"date":"2020-02-03T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mark3d.com\/en\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2020-07-20T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:23:59","slug":"markforged-manufacturing-reinvented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mark3d.com\/en\/markforged-manufacturing-reinvented\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing reinvented"},"content":{"rendered":"
Manufacturing reinvented<\/p><\/h1><\/div>
Capitalising on the benefits of 3D printing technology can drive down costs in manufacturing. With potentially limitless applications for plastic and metal printers modern manufacturing companies aren\u2019t short of places to start.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Throughout time, manufacturing companies have needed to adapt to survive and the 2020s are set to be no different, writes Ian Weston, Managing Director at Mark3D UK. Constant demands from management to identify and drive down costs means today\u2019s engineers must be more adventurous and creative to realise valuable cost savings.<\/p>\n Many in the manufacturing sector, especially in engineering, believe \u201cthe easy wins went long ago\u201d. However, I\u2019m not so sure. Over the last five years we have seen a number of agile, entrepreneurial, high-tech companies start up, or morph from their current position, to offer today\u2019s engineers a host of modern technology that can help drive down costs. Known as \u201cIndustry 4.0\u201d, they present a range of offerings covering design automation and iteration, production monitoring software with real-time logic-based decisions and even, bearing in mind it has been around for some 30 years, good old-fashioned 3D printing.<\/p>\n The market moves very quickly and 3D printing for engineers has improved tremendously in recent years. The technology now offers engineers affordable printers with strong materials and predictable results, yet it often struggles to be taken seriously in the boardroom. While early 3D printers did a great job in raising awareness of the technology, they had an equally adverse effect because of the items people chose to print with them. Green men and games characters fail to cut it in the engineering board room.<\/p>\n
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