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Will 3 d printing revive american manufacturing
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It seems a bold or even ridiculous statement that 3D printing will
revive American manufacturing but this statement has come from
Forbes magazine so it is worth paying attention. The magazine says
that as soon as 2015 through to 2025 3D printing could be the
transformative technology. If this is the case local and national
governments around the world should sit up and take notice and
get ahead of the competition with 3D printing services and America
it seems already has with Europe also ahead of the curve with 3D
printing services technology. The key factor for America and
Europe so far has been top universities with major, often
collaborative, research programs.
But what is there going to be to keep America's advantage, will
it not fade as Chinese and other Far Eastern countries do 3D
printing services more cheaply using their massive workforce of
cheap labor and endless supply of raw materials? The Raw materials
will still be important but with 3D printing services the emphasis
isn't on mass producing it is about creativity and will play on
the skills that American society has in abundance. Currently they
2. are graphic designers and website designers in a couple of years
the same skill sets will see educated Americans become product
designers many of them freelance or setting up their own companies
with little concern about which 3D printing service a customer
uses.
3D printing could take China and the Far East's advantages in
manufacturing disappear just as much as it hands America the
advantage. The actual 3D printing service can be done from
anywhere using blueprints produced anywhere else. Though
currently many 3D printers print parts that are then assembled
there are now printers who print fully formed products with moving
parts printed in place and color added during the process, this
includes creating electronics and even circuit boards. A massive
workforce doing repetitive tasks will no longer be needed so China
will have no cost advantage. The best place to produce in fact
will be wherever people will be consuming products in order to
save on transport costs. Quite how locally 3D printing services
are done remains to be seen but a 3D printer doesn't have to produce
only certain products it will be able to produce anything so you
may have 3D printing companies becoming as prolific as 2D printing
companies currently are. Some 3D printing services may specialize
in large format, higher quality raw materials or more out of the
3. ordinary materials but as with 2D printing now you will generally
go to who is closet or rather send them the electronic files and
arrange when your printing will be ready for collection. Then of
course there is printing in your own home for small items, maybe
based on your own designs. Designs will be what you buy often
rather than a product if 3D Brochure Printing China can really
be as cheap as mass production techniques, which many experts say
it may be. So it will be the designers of products, often bespoke
products, who make money but as the article in Forbes points out
it will be software companies that really become rich from this
technology, in many ways 3D printing and design will not differ
very much from 2D printing and design.
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