The Digital Thread

Discover what yield strength is, why it matters for engineers, and how it’s measured. Compare materials and see how yield strength impacts real-world design.

Get to know the latest trends shaping the future of manufacturing in 2025. From overcoming supply chain challenges and leveraging AI, to enhancing sustainability and embracing digital innovation, we explore navigating industry-wide challenges with cutting-edge technologies.

Explore how digital manufacturing techniques aid in process traceability for injection moulding.

Often, injection moulding is considered the most cost-effective production option for SKUs with estimated annual usage in the low-thousands for volume. It comes down to economies of scale—you just set up once to run tens or hundreds of thousands of parts. The highest volumes often bring you the lowest per unit price tags. But, the production setting also typically carries something else with it if you’re thoughtful—cost control, and lots of it.

Adding to Protolabs’ available technologies for rapid prototyping and on-demand production, Carbon’s suite of software, hardware, and materials provides another production method for end-use parts.

This blog answers your questions about batch production. When is it suitable? What are the advantages? And more,

A lack of expertise and skilled personnel is holding the maritime industry back, according to a new survey by the IMarEST and Protolabs – but solving it could open up a wealth of opportunity.

Unique products are amazing until parts break and you can’t obtain replacements. Enter 3D printing.

Manufacturing is changing. In the past, manufacturing was all about mass production and economies of scale, but now shifting consumer demands are driving a transformation of the industry. In this blog, we break down some of the key trends piloting these changes.

Using the field of Information Science to learn more deeply explore additive manufacturing.

A look back at the last 40 years of 3D printing and how digital manufacturing has evolved.

For the manufacture of goods, efficiency is paramount. A process that reaps lean operations and inventory management is just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. Learn more.