3D Printing: Short-Run Production

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

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