Direct Digital Manufacturing:
The use of production technologies to directly produce final products or components from digital designs, bypassing traditional manufacturing steps such as tooling, set-up or prototyping.
In practice, Additive Manufacturing is the only process that meets this definition and makes is possible to produce (print) end-use parts directly from a CAD-file.
What we do..
By combining Additive Manufacturing as our core business and other production techniques and post-processing services, we are able offer so called Hybrid Manufacturing services for high-demanding industries within the High Complex Low Volume markets such as machinery, semi-conductors, medical, electronics and even wearables.
Our approach
One common pitfall in on-boarding applications for Additive Manufacturing is using technique as a starting point. This point of view doesn’t offer a broad view on product development or innovation and is prone to focussing on the limitations of a certain production technology.
Instead, one should exploring the possibilities from user or applications perspective. In other words, one should focus on ‘the why’ (application) and end-up with ‘the what’ (techniques).
In between remains ‘the ‘how’ that should cover the match with the relevant benefits of AM. Every unique application has its own specific requirements and consequently specific considerations to choose for AM.
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