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Often, injection molding 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.

Supply chains are critical to success, but are often incredibly complicated. Let’s take a look at external supply chains within the National Laboratory system and how digital manufacturing fits in.

At our current point in time in the evolution of additive manufacturing, 3D printing serves as both a blessing and a curse with young engineers—thankfully, Protolabs gets it.

We recently hosted a customer roundtable on leveraging 3D printing for end-use production. Listeners got a behind-the-scenes look at how tech startup, OVR Technology, used HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing to reduce development time on its R&D product roadmap.

Consider these factors before choosing between a hard or soft metal for machining.

Our work with Breathe99 during the pandemic was recognized as a “Top Supply Chain Project” in 2021.

3D printing and injection molding work well for plastic parts. Which is better? It depends.

The recent Suez Canal ship blockage shows the need to mitigate supply chain risks.

The crew at Hacksmith Industries are pros in taking fictional ideas from comics, movies, and video games, and making actual functioning prototypes. So naturally, we teamed up to help them create creating the world’s fastest grappling hook winch, made famous on The Mandalorian series.

Explore the variables involved in calculating the cost of 3D-printed parts when using metal additive manufacturing technologies.

An online manufacturing platform offers the best of service bureau AND supplier network options.

We’re pleased to announce our all-new digital quoting platform.