LAST UPDATED: 26 APRIL 2020 AT 10:15 PDT PPE FACE SHIELDS DELIVERED: 740 NEED DONATIONS OR PURCHASES IN OUR SHOP TO MAINTAIN PRODUCTION RATES. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. FOR EVERY $100 SPENT = 1 FACE SHIELD DONATED. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT DELIVERED – PREDOMINANTLY FACE SHIELDS / FACE SHIELD VISOR COMPONENTS. 21 1.0 Days TOTAL DELIVERED: 740 # Order Date Ship Date Lead Time (Days) Order # USER (Hospital) Zip Code DESIGNER DESIGN Product FABRICATOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER FUNDING SOURCE Total Delivered 21 4/24/2020 4/27/2020 3 RCK Design That Matters Face Shield – v3 – VISOR ONLY PPE – VISOR ONLY – DTM NIH SUPPORTED (AM) You3Dit Inc You3Dit Inc RCK 0 20 4/18/2020 4/26/2020 8 1061 KP Concord Design That Matters Face Shield – v3 PPE – VISOR WITH DISPOSABLE SHIELDS – DTM NIH SUPPORTED (AM) You3Dit Inc You3Dit Inc CSC 0 19 4/18/2020 4/26/2020 8 1059 KP Walnut Creek Design That Matters Face Shield – v3 PPE –
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7 ways You3Dit delivers a mechanical design, engineering and rapid prototyping super power to your team
End-to-end Process – Consolidated, end-to-end processes for design & fabrication, is a valuable process that few attempt in our business. We do this by managing a zero-to-prototype process and execute these steps with the following philosophies in mind: a) keeping documentation and project history consistent b) clearly communicating through action and project engagement c) having You3Dit staff overseeing your project all along the way. Right tool for Right job – Clients, designers and fabricators place their jobs into the You3Dit ecosystem and in this way, we believe the best person to do the job (based on timing, skillsets, capacity and capability) apply / quote the work. This minimizes gouge-pricing / surge-pricing caused by a client lack of supplier options at any given time. Cost per part and service fee, that’s it – Shipping, packaging, taxes, etc. are all wrapped up into that one quote & process fee. So while we definitely understand the idea that most clients do not want to see the
Why is my 3D printed part so expensive?
Short answer…it’s probably not expensive relative to what you’re asking for. It’s that society programs us from birth to think plastics and other physical goods are “cheap” thanks to clever design for manufacturing at scale. Here’s why… We recognize that AM parts can be “expensive” relative to other plastic parts you might have seen available off the shelf. In this post, we’d like to walk you through one way of thinking about pricing on plastic part fabrication, both conventionally and with digital manufacturing. A common example we give is the “spork” offered at your favorite fast food restaurant. Fast-food restaurants can give these away for free because they make them in the 10M+ / yr and therefore their $500K mold that produces them can be amortized. It’s part of a pleasurable eating experience in the United States to have a fork + spoon combined. But to make just 1 (one) plastic spork with that manufacturing process (plastic injection molding) would
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