Challenges in Commercial Industry
When clients make tough demands, commercial products manufacturers need the flexibility to make great products. With 3D printing capabilities, they have the power to say yes to more opportunities. Designers and engineers can skip expensive, time-intensive machining and gain the agility to make changes any time.
The fundamental of 3D printing is an additive manufacturing technology which builds parts or models layer by layer. It helps to create complex, durable models in-house directly from CAD data. With a wide variety of materials and applica?ons to choose from, here is some benefits that 3D printing can offer to the industry:
By directly fabricating production parts or prototypes, companies can save a significant amount of money and
lead time.
Why 3D Printing for Commercial Products?
Offset Expensive CNC Production
Building production parts such as manufacturing tooling has always been an expensive move for the manufacturers in both inventory and production cost. One of the biggest rewards by 3D printing is to print these tools at the go, saving significant lead time and inventory cost.
Reduce Costs with In-house Production
An outsourced prototype can cost from several hundred dollars for a simple design to thousands of dollars for a more complex model – as much as three to five times that of a part printed in-house. Creating the same prototype on an in-house 3D printer brings a significant cost saving, even if your company prints only two models per month on average.
Test and Identify Design Problems
In some cases, it is not effective at finding design problems in 3D CAD drawing itself. By producing out a physical model with a Stratasys 3D printer, you can easily identify a component issue that may have been missed in the initial design stage.
