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Polymateria are British innovators and inventors of the world’s first self-destructing plastic technology. The company approached Protolabs for digital manufacturing support in raising awareness of the issue and their ground-breaking technology that could ultimately help solve it.
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Compare injection-moulded thermoplastics to ‘thermoplastic-like’ materials in stereolithography
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Try to use the standard parameters in your part design, and the same parameters should be as consistent as possible. Wonder why?
How Hyundai Design North America uses HandySCAN 3D for improving real-time design workflows
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Designers often work with a clean slate, dreaming up products that can be manufactured in any number of ways. But for manufacturers, the design stage is where important decisions are made about how the product will be produced.
With the rapid development of the automobile industry and its production capacity, traditional sheet metal processes can no longer meet the sector’s growing needs. Therefore, it is necessary to consider new and innovative technologies to keep up with the industry’s ever-evolving needs.
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Having initially developed the blood sampling product, Ascilion found the guidance from the Protolabs Team invaluable. Advice on the choice of materials and iterations to the design meant the prototype was optimised for injection moulding. Saving time and costs.
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Production of a device developed in collaboration with Protolabs to facilitate faster recovery from sporting head injuries has kicked up a gear following its entry into the English Premier League.
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An evaluation of a range of durable materials to consider for high UV-resistance in plastic parts
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Ejector pins are utterly vital to the process of creating injection moulded parts. If all goes well they barely leave a mark, but sometimes this is not the case. In this video we talk about how design and position can minimise this, considering shape and specific qualities of the part.
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EZ Factory: “Making apps is simple, but the most difficult thing there is, is making simple apps”
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Robots are more affordable than ever, and the robot programming barrier is being erased by user-friendly programming tools.
SCAN IT 3D GmbH a Swiss 3D measurement service provider, was commissioned to determine the geometry of a suction pipe of a hydroelectric power plant using 3D scanning technology.
The merging of ECAD and MCAD allows virtual simulation of the manufacturing process and reduces validation gaps that can happen when design efforts happen independently.
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The study is about the transformation of the manual assembly process of medical test kits by integrating the learning factory and digital twin. Lean manufacturing principles and lean thinking are introduced to revamp value-added activities; reduce waste and level-load human utilization.
