3D Printers from Rapid Prototyping to Home Factory
Published on : Friday 29-05-2020
3D printers are widely incorporated in the manufacturing sector owing to rapid growth in its need for rapid prototyping. In America, the overall cost of 3D printers is widely reduced to easily accessible the localities people in the production and manufacturing section can easily download, customize to the need, and print the end product in the most accurate remarkable range of products at home or on-site. This results in reduce the cost for the overall production in comparison to purchase it from outside.
From Rapid Prototyping to Home Factory
In the early 2000s, the cost of the 3D printers is so high that makes it accessible to leading manufacturers and high-end research universities, further the printers were massive and expensive used to rapidly prototype parts and products.
3D printers were initially invented for self-replicating rapid prototype and later innovation and developments from the engineers and 3D printer manufacturing companies to bring variants to expand its serving areas in the global market. It expected the currently people can purchase a 3D printer for USD 250 to USD 550 owing to the presence of massive variants for wide industrial verticals. Currently, 3D printers are full-fledged additive manufacturing robots based on production one layer at a time.
The manufacturing companies observed clear trends across the global value chain and enhance the manufacturing design and specifications from rapid prototyping to further across the home manufacturing. These companies are focused to move manufacturing to the consumers in the market and to enable their capability to manufacture products on their own. It is also expected that the consumer can save up to 90% to 95% of the market price when they are printing the product at home.
Coronavirus creates an opportunity for 3D printers
The growth of the adoption rate for the 3D printers and trend towards the distributed manufacturing would be difficult or a slow method to evaluate, more products were printed by more and more people in the global market. However, the 3D printers are currently unavailable as the coronavirus spread, which creates a risk in the growth cycle of the overall 3D printer sales.
Considering the current market demand scenario, there is massive demand and sales for personal protective equipment (PPE), which is primarily manufactured on the 3D printers. Moreover, the global implementation of strict quarantines, lockdown, and social distancing rules are creating a disruption in the global supply chains, which further predicting to bring growth opportunities for distributed manufacturing with 3D printers to meet the demand. It is expected that there will be fear among people post-pandemic would bring the consumption of 3D printers to manufacture their likely products at home without any outer human interference and no risk of virus spread.
The increase in demand for manufacturing complex home-based product structures and growth in influence from the idea of 3D printing, the manufacturers also realize the limitations in the use of 3D printers in terms of refinement in its materials, finish, durability, cost, and speed. Although, there is no need for big manufacturing machines during the use of 3D printers are creating its use from rapid prototyping to the home factory to self-manufactured the most customized product to accessible in-home application.