How many hours have employees and owners of small companies spent looking for standard components they can adapt to their products? Small companies are often more focused, more passionate and more inclined to customize their product according to customer feed-back, but are often restricted by a lack of capital and other resources. They have only been able look on while large, well-resourced corporations tool-up and race away with their ideas.

I, like many engineering types, have spent hours trying to develop and adapt a host of products and ideas that ended up sitting on the backburner waiting to be tried and tested. Most were in the “too-hard basket”; too expensive and time consuming to test, or the design too radical for normal manufacturing methods.

The world has changed with 3D printing. From a design and manufacturing point of view there is a new world of opportunity. Now I’m the lion amongst the herd of running zebras; the pickings are so good and so many that I’m overwhelmed by the possibilities. I’m the one asking, “Which one should I attack first; everywhere I look there is opportunity!”

3D printing allows small businesses to become who they really want to be, able to react quickly in these ever-changing markets, while the more risk averse, large corporations struggle to respond and change quickly to the environment.

Smaller companies will pick up and run with 3D-printed components, taking to customization like a duck to water. They will respond quickly, picking up this new technology and changing direction to seize their prey.

Here at Palmer Design & Manufacturing we are already working with such companies. Do you have an idea to try or a product to develop or customize?  Hit the ground running with Palmer Design & Manufacturing – with zero capital outlay.

Talk to us today to see how we can help you join the new manufacturing revolution!

Andrew Palmer

Director – Palmer Design & Manufacturing Ltd