What do you need to consider for low-volume manufacturing?

An enterprise produces several products, but instead of producing these several products at the same time, it is a production organization method that produces batches one at a time. Batch refers to the number of identical products (or parts) produced at one time by an enterprise (or workshop) in a certain period, in terms of quality, structure, and manufacturing method. It has a variety of processing capabilities. The production type of products that are processed in batches, in turn, has different batch sizes. Generally, both special equipment and general equipment are used for production. According to the quantity of each product put into production each time, it is divided into mass production, there are three types of medium batch production and small batch production. So what should be considered for low-volume manufacturing? Let's take a look together next.

The following is a list of contents:

• Quantity

• Geometric complexity

• Material selection

• Tight tolerances

• Revision/modification

• On-demand

Quantity

Is the number of products you need 100 or 5,000? Even if you need thousands of parts, low-volume manufacturing is a great way to bring products to market faster, using it as a bridge to tools.

Geometric complexity

The more complex your part is, the more complex and costly it is to produce fast tools. So low volume manufacturing can be correspondingly better.

Material selection

Through the rapid processing of low-volume manufacturing, you can use a variety of materials, but the material selection of FDM is limited and still provides the advantages of production-grade thermoplastics. For the limited selection of materials, we can perform low-volume manufacturing, and the materials for the links are limited.

Tight tolerances

For low volume manufacturing, the simple geometry RT is ideal, but FDM has proven that low volume manufacturing can produce parts with an accuracy of up to 0.003 inches.

Revision/modification

If there is any risk in low-volume manufacturing, especially in the early stages of product production, you cannot beat DDM. Because there is no tool to modify, low volume manufacturing only needs to use the modified digital file to continue production.

Surface smoothness

There is nothing better than low volume manufacturing injection molded parts, but if the application is internal components or surface aesthetics does not require a perfectly smooth surface, then DDM is a good choice.

In the digital world, nothing beats the benefits of direct digital manufacturing. DDM allows you to produce parts with low volume manufacturing directly from digitally created 3D files.

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