Disruptive companies are changing the rules of the game in manufacturing. Relativity Space (RS) is a great example using 3D-printing to build its Terran 1 rocket.
Aerospace products are often built one at a time with many thousands of parts in a factory with fixed tooling and a complex supply chain. Terran 1 has 730 parts, about 100x less than a typical rocket, with 95% 3D-printed to cut complexity. “Two buckets of raw material come in and the printers reconfigure that material into a rocket”, per CEO Tim Ellis, with a 60 day goal from start to finish. RS has the world’s largest 3D printers and plans to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch vehicles, also building a factory on Mars with material in one launch vehicle.
RS is disrupting aerospace with an entirely new way to build, design and develop a product that’s driven by software. Its approach could disrupt all manufacturing. MOSIMTEC manufacturing simulation modeling can help manufacturers be ready. There are lots of ways to be the disruptor rather than the disrupted. Explore options virtually with 3D and data-driven precision to see what works best, what doesn’t, and how to gain advantage on competitors without getting run over in the process. MOSIMTEC data scientists/industrial engineers can help.
#modelingandsimulation #disruptivetechnology #manufacturing #aerospace
Learn more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/relativity-space-adds-second-factory-to-3d-print-reusable-rockets.html