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jmowreader

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3. Let's see if I have this right

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:39 AM

Oct 2019

This printer can produce one truck frame in...oh, let’s say 12 hours.

A bank of hydro-forming machines or stamping presses and industrial robots can make the same truck frame in 30 minutes.

The same metal-forming machines plus two human welders can make the frame in about an hour.

So, my choices are: 24 frames in 12 hours in a completely automated plant, 12 of them in a partially automated one or one in a 3D printing plant.

3D printing is for prototyping, not manufacturing.

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Futuristic 3D Printer Could Be the End of Molds, Warehouses [View all] Sherman A1 Oct 2019 OP

3D printing is at the High School Valedictorian College Freshman Prosper Oct 2019 #1

At this point you are correct Sherman A1 Oct 2019 #2

3D printed objects strength limited by layer construction. Prosper Oct 2019 #6

Let's see if I have this right jmowreader Oct 2019 #3

Injection molding can turn out thousands of articles per hour. Not outmoded yet. eppur_se_muova Oct 2019 #4

A prototype of a Star Trek replicator once the software catches up Cyrano Oct 2019 #5