People have raised doubt for the 3D printing technology by calling it just a “GIMIMICK” since the technology has born. If this tech keeps its speed of growth to the day, it is right now, one might be able to print anything to a computer and the printer in the foreseeable globalized future.
Impact of Globalization
By the end of year 2014, the growth in global trade has dropped significantly in the last two years. Moreover, with the rise of 3D Printing, taking back manufacturing from countries such as China, Vietnam, and Indonesia might not be too hard to accomplish after all.
However, seeing this in a different way, globalization can help take the small business which doing by individual talents to the world. The small business man normally does not have that much money to find a factory to meet the minimum order to manufacture.
Impact on Business Model
Originally developed to produce prototypes, 3D Printing builds up actual objects using a computer-aided design and minimal human assistance. This could allow manufacturers to bring production closer to the end user at a lower cost, thus, shrinking the supply chain.
3D printing can help one company transfer to product orientation, as the production time can narrow down significantly, the pressure for the warehouse and the cost can reduce a lot.
Customized will replace the traditional way for the R&D department.
Introduction of 3D printing in commercial manufacturing
No one can imagine that the modern production will be getting done without an actual factory 20 years ago.Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been synonymous with plants, machine tools, production lines and economies of scale. Now, it is time to start thinking about manufacturing without the assembly lines or what people call supply chains. When 3D printing technology reaches small business starters things changes. Nowadays, one can make any part, appliances and others one can imagine at home. One can use a computer just create and watch the physical 3D objects shaping up.While this new reality is exciting, it also poses significant questions for the future of how we manufacture goods.
For a long while and for sure, factory will remain, but the 3D industry technology as a new player on the field will change many such as new entrants, new products, and new materials emerge, and mainstay processes like distribution may no longer be needed new entrants, new products, and new materials emerge, and mainstay processes like distribution may no longer be required Today’s consumers clamor for customized products and services and speed of delivery.
The customization is not entirely economical compared with the traditional manufacturing processes.The 3D printing can change the market of production by optimizing for batches of one.
3D printing is much simpler and cheaper and which also will take smaller and more convenient place than the usual production technology.
The impact of globalization on 3D commercial manufacturing
- To narrow the time of a product to market.
In some aspects, the 3D printing will lead to a quicker design and modeling cycle that could eliminate the new product and the time set for factories. Agile will not be an advantage in the market anymore, but a necessary require by the manufacturers.
- Products can have more excellent functions.
The function of the product will be more superior. Manufacturing obstacles will reduce, which brings new competitors, new ideas. At the same time, the product contains printing component will show excellent properties, such as smaller, lighter, stronger and less complicated and easier to maintain. The output of products with unique competitive advantage.
- Open design is an important advantage.
Open design becomes an important advantage of the 3D printing technology in the globalization world.Entrepreneurs will increasingly responsible for product design, this will give any entrepreneurs want to make or create the necessary skills and tools. These open design products will be more than the existing patent products have an excellent and quick. Manufacturers and entrepreneurs will eventually be users on the Internet evaluation, evaluation standard is just to design and build quality, rather than who invested more advertising expenses.
- Customization is the new normal.
- Offshore economic changes will generate.
The off-shore financial will be damaged and broken a lot.
The large-scale, low-cost production areas of relative price advantage will be 3D printer to provide real-time production sales and near the customer production or assembly of the great blow. In the supply chain, timely factors will become the biggest advantage of third printing, especially for small batch or highly specialized components. Instead, the designers can take advantage of the low cost of minimizing costs, parts in mass production as soon as possible and professional components, assembly production in time.
In this new world manufacturing industry, the traditional construction industry in urgent need of evolution or death. In a recent report, the researchers noted that when an activity, in this case, the construction industry, become a commodity, traditional practices must be developed to include new, though highly destructive, the business process. He points out that 3 d printing will almost certainly be by the practice of the new entrants will be entirely different from the existing players. In 70 years to prepare this kind of change, therefore, the traditional, manufacturers must keep pace with the development of 3 d printing technology practice and pay attention to your internal faults, can prevent them was eliminated by the market.
As more organizations and individuals become manufacturers, the lines between manufacturer and customer will blur.
Will this change will apply to the retailer, the line will blur. Manufacturing will go into retail. Consumers and new entrants will enter production. Ten years later, traditional manufacturing die? The answer is no, but it will be very different.
Deep-rooted traditional manufacturing and emerging challenges caused by the movement of 3 d printing, and under the influence of globalization, 3 d printing will disrupt the production? In short: yes. We may be at the edge of the third industrial revolution, like all revolutions, affect the width and depth. Manufacturer in the supply chain are faced with the problem how to need to change is that is to adapt to the 3 d printing technology, rather than fight.
What is clear is that in the short term, 3 d printing will not with the traditional large manufacturing confrontation. However, 3 d printing will indeed increasingly applied to replace even industrial prototypes, traditional tools manufacturing project, and the technology of high-end, customized production directly or complex products in small quantities.
Limiting conditions of 3 d printing material size and lower prices fall, printing materials and printing speed manufacturing economy support 3 d printing will be significant changes have taken place. This is particularly considering the end-to-end design cost, manufacture, assembly, transportation, distribution and operating a product. People will increasingly use products, including 3 d printing components, from cars and aircraft to consumer electronic equipment and kitchen utensils.
Because the superior properties of 3 d printing products, these products will be more desirable. Start manufacturers will work with new and innovative ideas, to flourish, they will have a way of rapidly expanding the scale of production with minimum capital investment. These startups, with their agility and incredibly short, time to market of tomorrow's competition. Some suspect that new sources of competition, only need to take a look at today's design community amateur and development ability. No big factories, industrial designers or large capital group, community, sales of 3 d printers can profit a lot, even in a very short time to establish a military vehicle prototype. These guys in niche areas are more than large enterprises.
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