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RMIT titanium lattice prototype stays afloat after major damage
RMIT's 3D-printed buoy stayed afloat after cracking, failed connections and the fracture of an entire lattice layer.
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3D printing, robotics, machine tools, new processes: making things faster, closer, differently.
Making things faster, closer, differently: the section follows 3D printing as it moves from prototypes to production parts, industrial and warehouse robotics, machine tools, and the processes that change a cost or a lead time by an order of magnitude. This is where real reshoring is decided — the kind that holds through productivity, not decree.
We report workshops and numbers: a cycle time, a cost per part, a defect rate, a production run starting. Asian and European machine builders — often mid-sized companies nobody covers — get the space their industrial weight deserves. The border with “Infrastructure” stays constant: here, what BUILDS; there, what is BUILT. Every article cites its sources.
RMIT's 3D-printed buoy stayed afloat after cracking, failed connections and the fracture of an entire lattice layer.
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