By Hod Lipson
Fabricated tells the tale of 3D printers, humble production machines which are bursting out of the manufacturing unit and into colleges, kitchens, hospitals, even onto the style catwalk. Fabricated describes our rising global of printable items, the place humans layout and 3D print their very own creations as simply as they edit an internet document.
A 3D printer transforms electronic info right into a actual item by way of engaging in directions from an digital layout dossier, or 'blueprint.' Guided via a layout dossier, a 3D printer lays down layer after layer of a uncooked fabric to 'print' out an item. That's now not the complete tale, besides the fact that. The magic occurs in case you plug a 3D printer into today's mind-boggling electronic applied sciences. upload to that the web, tiny, low-cost digital circuitry, radical advances in fabrics technological know-how and biotech and voila! the result's an explosion of technological and social innovation.
Fabricated takes the reader onto a wealthy and satisfying trip that explores how 3D printing is poised to affect approximately all the pieces of our lives.
Aimed at those that get pleasure from books on enterprise approach, well known technology and novel know-how, Fabricated will supply readers with sensible and resourceful insights to the query 'how will this know-how switch my life?' according to hundreds and hundreds of hours of analysis and dozens of interviews with specialists from a wide diversity of industries, Fabricated bargains readers an informative, attractive and fast paced creation to 3D printing now and sooner or later.
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In the same way an online document can be printed on paper, scanned, and then printed again, someday physical things will migrate between bits and atoms and back again. 17 18 Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing In Being Digital, Negroponte cautioned that the physical world won’t lend itself easily to digital format. Atoms are heavy and expensive to ship. Physical inventories take up space. Atoms insist on stubbornly clinging to one another in strictly defined ways. Negroponte wrote, “If you make cashmere sweaters or Chinese food, it will be a long time before we can convert them to bits.
Only after a significant number of identical products are sold does a company begin to profit from its initial investment. One of the biggest hidden costs of mass production is the sacrifice of variety. To enjoy the benefits of economies of scale, a company must resist the temptation to change a product’s design unless there’s a large enough market opportunity to justify the investment. Each design change, each minor upgrade or variation hits the bottom line. This is an injection molding machine in a factory.
Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap 27 Mass production can’t offer both companies and consumers good, fast and cheap goods. How about artisan production? Skilled artisans make custom products in small batches—no assembly line or investments in a factory floor needed. Artisans don’t hire teams of skilled designers, engineers and technicians. If a design concept proves to be fatally flawed after it’s rendered in physical form, an artisan may have to absorb the cost of wasted materials. However, since only one faulty product was created, an artisan can quickly edit the original design without having to deal with the financial consequences of throwing away hundreds (or thousands) of mistakes.