“3D printing produces objects incredibly fast and shortens the product development cycle, making items much more economical; it creates strong, durable parts and products with no discernible layering; and it offers clients the widest choice of production materials in the 3-D printing market.”
– Valerie Buckingham, Carbon
When you use 3-D printing for production in Egypt, you maintain a continuous digital thread
 | All processes from design to production are driven by a single digital design that is refined over time based on analysis, feedback, and testing. As a result, the production process is greatly simplified. It speeds up product design, and it speeds up business. For example, one of the leading factories in Egypt - Kandil, started to implement 3D printing in their production. Understanding the value of substituting the handmade fabrication techniques into digital ones, allowed them to lead the digital fabrication revolution in Egypt. |
In traditional manufacturing in Egypt, the journey from design to production moves through various distinct stages. At each stage, the digital thread is cut as a physical manifestation of the design is created to test and validate it. Even when 3D printing is used to create a prototype(LINK), this breaks the digital thread, since the prototype is often not made with the same materials or imbued with the same performance capacities that the final product will have
 | With 3-D manufacturing, prototyping as it is now known will cease to exist. “When you design a product on the same means used for production, there is no prototype,” “There’s just an iteration with no cost to change it. The leaders in the manufacturing space are figuring this out. They’re iterating on the means of production, creating a manufacturing process in which the digital loop is not cut. |
“Keeping the digital thread intact throughout design and production will drive the integration of otherwise separate solutions.”
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