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Topic: What ismanufacturing process innovation comparable to 3D Printing?

The size, price, processing power had all changed from the early days of computing.

The same confluence of activity would have to take place for 3D printing to take off. Here's my list of top 3 most important things: 3d printing service anand orissa chhattisgarh telangana india

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1) Price: price would have to be somewhere in people's grasp. This could be price of a machine for desktop, or price of print/material cost for industrial machine.

2) Quality: materials that are food safe, wearable, accurate prints. Take an inventory of the stuff on your desk or around the room, the amount of qualifications for these materials are by and large not yet met. For example, on my desk I have things like a mug and a wind up brain toy. The mug has to be foodsafe, the wind up brain has to combine different materials and the parts have to fit tightly so tolerances can't be off. This is directly related to what applications additive manufacturing can/can't be used for.

3) Content (here let's look at some manufacturing vs. software examples): the last piece is what VisiCalc provided for personal computing. Content must be relatable, and easy to use. I'll break that down into two examples. First, relatability. Before VisiCalc, people in universities used these computing machines for crunching large sets of data. That is simply not something that "normals" care about. However, people do care about budgeting. This is something many people do in business as well as in their households, hence VisiCalc was a breakthrough application because it was relatable. The second piece is ease of use. For this I often use Photoshop vs. Instagram as an analogy. Photoshop's tools are pretty self explanatory but give me Photoshop and I will give you a blank JPG, or a crudely drawn smiley face. Instagram however, I can take a picture of garbage, apply a filter and call it "art." Note, clearly Photoshop serves an important purpose but it is the wrong type of tool to look at when thinking about "mass adoption" (it's more useful as a wide industry adoption case study).

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