From the course: Design Foundations: Prototyping and Manufacturing
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Manufacturers that supply materials to designers
From the course: Design Foundations: Prototyping and Manufacturing
Manufacturers that supply materials to designers
- In this movie, we talk about materials specifically for manufacturing. Materials for manufacturing are different than the materials for prototyping, in some cases, so you might see plastics and metals that are only available in bulk that you would do secondary process like cutting, drilling or CNC. But there's a whole other world of materials on the manufacturing side that can only be done through manufacturing processes like injection molding and other composite processes. We're going to talk about manufacturing materials. And when you think about manufacturing materials, you talk about the companies behind manufacturing materials. The manufacturing materials, although there's many companies that do this, there's glass, there's plastics, there's composites, and then there's the people that put everything together for us. In this movie, we have 3M with us. We have Greg Sikora and Rob Kiska. And we're going to talk about a couple of projects that went through the process of telling a…