3D Printing Innovation

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3D Printing Dental Trends that Upgrade Your Practice

By Dental Team / January 6, 2022

3D printing solutions enable dental practitioners to realize the benefits of digital dentistry, including improving patient experience, more comfortable device fit, and faster turnaround times. The accuracy, strength, and speed of 3D printers create cost-effective and better-performing oral devices. With dental practitioners becoming more tech-savvy, it is strengthening 3D printing dental trends for digitalization and…

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Choosing the Best 3D Printer for Dentistry

By Dental Team / December 28, 2021

Rapid prototyping with traditional methods requires tooling – just like volume production processes.Tooling slows down and adds cost to product development cycles. 3D printing provides an alternative prototyping production process that removes tooling constraints, giving product designers a flexible, on-demand option for product development and scaling.

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Rapid Prototyping and Tooling: 3D Printing Speeding up Product Manufacturing

By Smart Factory Team / December 23, 2021

Rapid prototyping with traditional methods requires tooling – just like volume production processes.Tooling slows down and adds cost to product development cycles. 3D printing provides an alternative prototyping production process that removes tooling constraints, giving product designers a flexible, on-demand option for product development and scaling.

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Understanding 3D Printing in Manufacturing

By Smart Factory Team / December 15, 2021

Defined as the construction of a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design (CAD) or a digital 3D model, 3D printing or additive manufacturing is transforming the world as we know it. However, when we hear the term 3D printing, oftentimes the technology isn’t seen as a solution that has the ability to manufacture high volume…

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Aligning Dental 3D Printing Process with Different Business Models

By Dental Team / December 13, 2021

3D printing technology is constantly advancing and popularity among dental practitioners and labs is growing. 3D printing dental products offer better patient service with faster turnaround times and are more accurate than traditional production methods. The digitalized workflow can also increase efficiencies such as producing multiple similar or different dental devices in parallel for patients.…

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High Volume Manufacturing Process with 3D Printing: Pros and Cons

By Smart Factory Team / December 9, 2021

There are multiple ways to take advantage of 3D printing, such as leveraging a smart factory for on-demand production, augmenting traditional processes, and building dedicated 3D printing lines for an agile manufacturing model. With advantages and disadvantages for each option, companies need to consider several factors when using 3D printing for high-volume manufacturing processes.

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Optimizing High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing with 3D Printing

By Smart Factory Team / December 2, 2021

3D printing systems enable a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing approach for a broad range of products, including fully customizable products. For companies considering 3D printing for a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing business model, there are many benefits over traditional production processes.

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Additive Manufacturing vs. Subtractive Manufacturing: Comparison Guide

By Smart Factory Team / November 29, 2021

3D printing is enabling new business models and supporting low and high-volume manufacturing operations. When applied on an industrial scale, 3D printing is known as additive manufacturing. Manufacturers can easily fabricate products with complex designs or produce customized products that would be too costly with subtractive manufacturing. With many benefits over traditional manufacturing methods, many…

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Top Seven Industries for Additive Manufacturing Applications

By Smart Factory Team / November 11, 2021

Additive manufacturing offers innovations, process improvements, and greater agility to many industries, including aerospace, dental, medical, and automotive. 3D printers are versatile and can produce complex or customized products. Manufacturers use 3D printers in different applications to accelerate innovation, production, or improve the quality of the final product. Here’s a brief overview of modern additive…

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Four Benefits of Additive Manufacturing for Production

By Smart Factory Team / October 22, 2021

There are significant benefits of additive manufacturing over traditional manufacturing. 3D printers can make it easier to scale from prototyping to production, reduce risk, and increase manufacturing agility. One of the key benefits of additive manufacturing is enabling companies to bring high-quality products to market faster than traditional manufacturing while reducing overhead costs and risks. …

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