Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The marketing of 3D printers to ordinary consumers still takes time

After reading "The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World", I did a little more search with keywords "3-D printers" on-line. 
I've found that though still sounds new and emerging, the history of 3-D printing can be dating back to 1980s. With such a long time development, the 3-D printing technique has achieved significant breakthroughs in medical, automobile and aviation areas.
There is no doubt that in these high-tech and life-science fields, the 3-D printing has irreplaceable resonating focus. For example, in the aircraft manufacturing area:
2 Points Greatest Values:
- It significantly reduced material waste therefore reduce the material costs.
- It makes the producing process more concise and easy, which greatly reduced the transportation and storage costs.
1 Point of Parity: 
- It greatly reduced the weight of parts without lowering the performances

However, despite of the developing history of 3-D printing and the high-tech it contains, the marketing to ordinary consumers still takes time that cannot be very short. Undoubted the 3-D printing technique symbolize significant points of differences that cannot be achieved by 2-D printers, it still needs better resonating focus to expand the market in general uses.

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