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Now celebrating its 70th anniversary, Singapore Airlines is well known for its luxury business-class beds on long haul flights, and its policy of addressing every passenger by name – their personalized customer service was lauded by the Harvard Business Review. But Singapore Airlines is also an early innovator in 3D printing. Its subsidiary, Singapore Airlines Engineering ...

MANUFACTURING advances often take time to catch on.

Only later does their real significance become apparent. The flying shuttle, invented in 1733 by John Kay, a British weaver, allowed the production of wider pieces of cloth. Because ...

“For digital (2D) printing, the big tipping point was affordable color. I think the same will be true for 3D.
Whether that’s best accomplished through production or finishing is a worthy debate, but how many mass produced products do you buy today that are single color? Not many.”
I wrote that over two years ago. It’s as true today as it was then. The difference now is, there are more options for producing color, and even more are on the way.


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Back when I wrote that article there were only a few ways to produce color with 3D printing.
Desktop-style fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers could obviously ...