New technologies are redistributing production:
3D-printing is taking off
Shapeways - a 25,000-square-foot 3D-printing "Factory
of the Future," Long Island City
·
U.S. Customers will be able to create and print out newly designed
products within a matter of days at the facility.
·
When fully up and running the factory will be largest consumer-
facing 3D printing manufacturing facility in the world.
·
It will house 30 to 50 high definition, industrial-sized 3D printers.
Each is capable of producing more than 100 products on a daily
basis, and three to five million products on annual basis.
·
The factory will support Shapeways' community of nearly 200,000
users.
(Source: Smart Planet )
Photo: Author Kyle Pearce (
www.diygenius.com
) via
Flickr; licensed for reuse under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.