3D printing (additive manufacturing) is becoming a go-to solution for mass production. World manufacturing had already slowed down in 2019 then, in early 2020, it hit a sharp decline when global production dipped due to COVID and supply chain issues. The scramble...
What Exactly is Industrial Design? Sometimes when people hear “Industrial Design,” they might not exactly know what it entails. With the word “industrial” in the title, they might imagine it deals with solely manufacturing, but that is not the case. Industrial design...
Plummeting job data reveals the story of a “quiet quitting” epidemic that hasn’t slowed. An average of 4M people left their jobs in 2021, and at the end of March 2022, there were 11.5M job openings in the US. That’s a stark jump from the 7M openings in 2019. This...
Where to begin? 3D printing has been a game changer for companies that rely on physical prototypes to inform design decisions. In almost all cases, rapid prototyping technologies can offer: Faster than traditional manufacturingMore cost-effective prototypesFewer...
The Goal: Being able to touch your product design, hold it, use it, and most importantly, share it with the world... at a profit of course! It always starts with a good idea. A new approach to something old, an old approach to something new, or simply one of those...
The name of the game in new product development is time. Time to prototype iterations, time to market and time of development go hand-in-hand in bringing a new product to the masses. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, for every 7 product ideas, only 1.5...
People have been making things for a long time. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, the status quo for manufacturing and metal prototyping became subtractive manufacturing. Like the common three-axis mills and lathes, these machines can be manually operated or...
Creating designs with traditional manufacturing in mind was already challenging by itself. Today’s designers now have to consider how to incorporate 3D printing and/or Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) into their designs. There is a desire to use a printed prototype...