Merit3D launched Protoduction 4.0 program for mass-AM
The initiative offers three different "Paths" for customers with different requirements
Utah-based AM service provider Merit3D, a specialist in using Photocentric technology for mass production applications, has created a new program called Protoduction 4.0. This program is designed to help people from three different situations to mass produce their products using additive manufacturing across the globe.
Path one, “Do Your Own”, helps users build their own prototype by giving them resources for learning 3D printing and then printing their own parts in the same parameters that Merit3D uses for mass production. In this case, customers do their own prototyping and design work and can utilize Merit3D when ready to mass produce.
Path two of Protoduction, known as “Let US Help”, uses Merit3D services more intensively. In this path, Merit3D helps with design and prototyping and mass-produces the final product.
Path three, “Start From Scratch”, is the most hands-on approach of the three. It enables customers who have an idea, but who don’t have a design, to see their product become a reality. Merit3D creates the design, tests prototypes, and mass produces the product.
As part of the Protoduction initiative, Merit3D has also upgraded its online estimate tool. Customers can now engage with their materials and pricing to a greater depth and make more informed decisions when it comes time to mass produce their products.
Based in Utah’s “Carbon County” Merit3D, was founded to create jobs. Dustless Technologies, Merit3D’s sister company had the original desire to bring their manufacturing back to the USA. Through the technologies used with Merit3D, the goal is to use emerging technologies in additive manufacturing to win mass manufacturing contracts.
This enables the company to create additive manufacturing sources for manufacturers to find engineering and products at comparable rates and quality as traditional manufacturing. Merit3D is working with many key partners in the additive manufacturing industry to provide and be a source of products in a wide range of solutions from cell phone cases to 50-foot metal buildings, and from medical parts to rubber-like parts.
Via the partnership with Photocentric, the company is looking to transform rural Utah into a mecca for advanced manufacturing solutions.
