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Remote Manufacturing
Q: What is remote manufacturing?

A: Well, there are a several different contexts for the use of the phrase "remote manufacturing".

The older use of the term is now often called "off-shoring" and refers to the idea of using factories that are distant from the design centers where products are engineered. In today's environment, it's not really typical to use the phrase that way anymore since it is common to use low-cost countries for manufacturing while designing in other parts of the world where that expertise exists. This is typically referring to design centers and manufacturing plants owned by the same parent company.

A newer (but not widely used) context for that phrase is the idea of using information technology and tools to make a 3D model of a design concept and then send it off to some type of rapid-prototyping device (maybe stereo-lithography, maybe laminar printing technology, maybe selective laser sintering, etc.) to fabricate an actual 3D model of the part.

The final (and most likely definition) is referring to collaboration between a company that has design and application expertise for somewhat "custom" design work (but may reside in a country where manufacturing is expensive) and a second company that has expertise fabricating devices according to those designs (and resides in a low labor wage country). In such a collaboration, both companies provide value, but they focus on what they do best.


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phosphating tank

by Anonymous - 02/08/2010 - 18:53

hi
i need to know best & new design for phosphating tank

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