Direct Digital Manufacturing: Practicing What We Preach14 unique component designs and 32 total components in each new Stratasys Fortus 900mc are being produced via direct digital manufacturing.
Many manufacturers build products in the 10s, 100s, or low 1,000s. In these cases, producing parts with injection molding is often not a wise choice due to the high cost of tooling. With an additive fabrication system, manufacturers can eliminate tooling, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars for a single component or hundreds of thousands of dollars or more for a single project.
Scott Crump, CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing Part One: What is Direct Digital Manufacturing
The use of additive fabrication processes is what differentiates direct digital manufacturing (DDM) from conventional manufacturing methods, and it is from these technologies that unique advantages and opportunities arise. Direct from 3D digital data, a component is manufactured—layer-by-layer—without machining, molding or casting.
Scott Crump, CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing Part Two: Advantages and Considerations
The primary advantage of DDM is that it removes constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing processes, such as injection molding or die casting. DDM fundamentally alters many of the “facts” and principles that govern conventional manufacturing enterprises. Since DDM is an additive process that eliminates tooling, there are many advantages that simply are not available with traditional processes. Read what those advantages and considerations are.
Scott Crump, CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing Part Three: How to Identify Opportunities
Due to direct digital manufacturing's unique processing capabilities and innovative advantages, it can be a challenge to easily identify target applications for DDM. Therefore, it is vital to understand how to recognize the opportunities. Read what some of those opportunities are.
Scott Crump, CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing Part Four: Industries and Applications
Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is being applied in a diverse range of industries. Examples of DDM success are found in aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics and defense. Each of these industries, and many others, has applied DDM, and each will continue to see an increase in the number of DDM applications. Read how customers are using DDM today.
Scott Crump, CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
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FDM 400mc Accuracy Assessment
To quantify the capabilities of the FDM 400mc, Stratasys performed an in-depth analysis of accuracy, precision and repeatability. The study of the system’s process capabilities confirmed the FDM 400mc’s published tolerance specifications and showed a high degree of repeatability across machines, builds and platform locations.
Jesse Hanssen, Applications Engineer
Stratasys, Inc.
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Rapid Manufacturing with FDM in Jig and Fixture Construction
This report is from the Department of Jig and Fixture Construction that has used an FDM system for years. Daily projects comprise, among other things, designing and manufacturing production tools and testing devices, as well as supporting initial production runs and special resources.
Günter Schmid and Ulrich Eidenschink
BMW Regensburg
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The Birth of the Pit Viper: Handcrafting Paired with Advanced Digital Tools
Restoring and customizing cars and trucks is a laborious process that demands skill and attention to detail. Even with weeks of meticulous work, highly skilled individuals are unable to approach perfection. This is where digital technology comes in.
Todd Grimm
T.A. Grimm & Associates
November 2006
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Caesar Is In Town
Actual Caesar bust scanned and reproduced in ABS plastic.
alphacam
Published by Favorit
January 2004
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Fused Deposition Modeling: A Technology Evaluation
FDM is presented from a user's point of view.
Todd Grimm
T.A. Grimm & Associates
April 2003
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Direct Rapid Manufacturing with Real Production Plastics Using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Discuss recent material advances in fused deposition modeling that benefit rapid manufacturing.
S. Scott Crump, President & CEO
Stratasys, Inc.
4th Annual Euro-uRapid Conference, Frankfurt, Germany
December 2002
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How Will Future NASA Missions Get Spare Parts in Space?
NASA hopes to one day use rapid prototyping technology to build parts on the space station or in space travel. It has had good results when experimenting with the Stratasys FDM (fused deposition modeling) process to build parts in zero gravity conditions. NASA Tech Briefs
June 2000
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