DECEMBER 20248MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSIN MY OPINIONIt's mid-2016 and Mueller Co., LLC had just taken an order for a domestically produced, ductile iron, 200 pound + component; one that the production was outsourced to a foreign supplier a decade earlier. We found ourselves with no tooling, no 3D CAD, no gating scheme and a customer to satisfy. That is when we discovered the power found in the tooling-less approach via sand printing. What became serial number 1 for Mueller was as much about vetting the possibilities as it was attempting to pull a rabbit out of our proverbial hat to satisfy our customer. What we discovered has forever changed our trajectory as an organization. It became the jumpstart that would result in continued research, and ultimately investment, to exploit these and other cutting-edge technologies in our quest to remain on the front lines of manufacturing technologies.Jason BradleyADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, SO MUCH MORE THAN A YODA HEAD DECORATION FOR THE DESKBy Jason Bradley, Director Of Engineering, Mueller Water Products
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