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Michigan CNC Machining Parts, Inc.’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.
Building A New You
The human body is a marvel of engineering, a wonderment of complexity, subtlety and adaptation. But we are still prone to the ravages of time, injury and disease, and we turn to the world of medicine to help fix whatever ails us. Now we may also be turning to...
Cool Things About Zhongshan
We at Michigan CNC Machining Parts, Inc. are very fond of our adopted hometown and we're proud to play a role in keeping it a nice place to live and work. From time to time we'd like to keep all of you updated on recent events happening in and around town. The Zhongshan Foreign Affairs...
Designs That Need A Redesign
Last time we talked about what goes into a perfect design. This time we look at some common everyday objects that could use a bit of redesign. All of the following have served their purposes admirably over the years, answering a felt need and in the process becoming...
Can You Build a Better Mousetrap?
Deng Xiaoping famously said that it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. And when it comes to catching mice, nothing except the cat has done the job better than the humble mousetrap. We present it here not because we're enemies of...
Will The Internet Of Things Affect Your Future Prototype Designs?
It's a pretty cool name, the Internet of Things. Attributed to Kevin Ashton in 1999 while he worked at Proctor and Gamble, it's used to describe the connected world we're rapidly heading towards, a world in which everyday, ordinary devices carry RFID chips and other...
Getting A Handle On Surface Finish
We've talked before about color on a prototype, and the subtle ways that color affects our emotional response to a manufactured object. The final surface finish of a part is also important, not only for the mechanical fitness for a given application but also for the...
New 3D Objects Make Learning Fun
Additive manufacturing and 3D printing have now been around for more than thirty years. Touted as heralding the advent of the third industrial revolution, desktop manufacturing promises to fundamentally alter the way that average citizens envision and create the...
A Better Way To Build?
When we think of 3D printers, we tend to envision either something small that can fit on a tabletop for home fabricators or maybe an industrial machine about the size of a phone booth. Most of the parts made for consumer and industrial applications can typically fit...
