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Comparing the Numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Markforged Part<\/td>\n$15,10<\/b><\/td>\n10.75 hours<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aluminum part<\/td>\n$150.63<\/b><\/td>\n96 hours + shipping time<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lead time sped up from weeks per design to days and was 10% the cost per part.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Never at Rest<\/strong><\/p>\n

For first time parents,\u00a0whether or not their baby is sleeping well is almost always an area of concern. Rest Devices has the goal of creating a nursery in the age of the smart devices, as co-founder and Chief Technical Officer, Thomas Lipoma,\u00a0who works on early stage R&D and supply chain logistics, explains: \u201cAt Rest Devices, we\u2019re really trying to build the connected nursery. And what that is is a bunch of different connected intelligent products that a parent can use when they have their first child.\u201d One of their big products, Mimo, is a wearable device for infants that monitor a baby\u2019s sleep patterns, breathing, and movement, and update the parent on their child\u2019s health through a smartphone app with live data.<\/p>\n

With such a quick product development stream, Lipoma and the R&D team require in house manufacturing: \u201cEverything about the Mimo monitor is actually built and manufactured in the US, in New England, which is really cool… We haven\u2019t outsourced any of the development or the research or any of the engineering. So a 3D printer is really critical for basically everything we do here.\u201d Always pushing products forward, quickly prototyping, and developing novel concepts to improve the lives of parents tending to their children, the company\u2019s entire design to product stream is kept in house. They design, they prototype,\u00a0and they even make their own manufacturing equipment for their products.\u00a0They keep everything in house to easily make changes to improve their customers\u2019 experiences, and as a result the company is always on the lookout for new products to increase their product development efficiency.<\/p>\n

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Tired of the Wait<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of their new products Lipoma has been working on has been making a bottle warmer. Because it was such a new design challenge for the team, they went through thousands of design iterations and prototypes. \u201cOnce we started making things like that bottle warmer that were actually really unique engineering challenges, we didn\u2019t even really know how we were going to make it,\u201d Lipoma\u00a0recounted. \u201cWe were going through a lot of different iterations on fan design,\u00a0component design, and how things were going to fit into a very tight package,\u00a0and we were printing non stop.\u201d The problem was that even the prototype parts had to withstand a variety of temperatures and spin at high speeds, and no traditional fabrication method or even 3D printer could do that. \u201cAt the time our only real option was to mill some of these really intricate parts, and they would fail a lot. If we were outsourcing them they were costing thousands and thousands of dollars each to make. We didn\u2019t really have any good option to iterate really quickly in house as we were doing that design.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At other points in Mimo\u2019s process, major prototyping roadblocks piled up for similar reasons. \u201cWith one of our pieces of manufacturing equipment, we needed to make a new tool holder. We tried printing with a couple of different types of 3D printers, and they were either too brittle or they couldn\u2019t handle the heat and they just kept failing,\u201d Lipoma described. \u201cWe had to go back to the original equipment manufacturer, and our only real option was basically to spend about eight or nine thousand dollars to have them make a new part, and even if we\u00a0did want to spend the money, the time would have been a huge hinderance.<\/p>\n

\u201dWith product deadlines to meet and a broken machine, they needed a much faster and much cheaper solution. \u201cSo they were looking at about a month to make the part, and we needed to have the machine up really quickly,\u201d Lipoma explained. \u201cWe needed to find a way to 3D print some of those high strength\u00a0parts that we would actually be able to use in manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rise and Shine<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fortunately, Rest Devices had their eye on the Mark One since the beginning: \u201cWe were actually looking at the Mark One when it was first introduced, before anyone was really able to get one…it was able to hit a lot of the pain points that we were having. So as soon as we were able to get one we grabbed it just because it was able to solve so many of our problems,\u201d said Lipoma. Very quickly, Rest Devices could make up for lost money and time from their broken machine.\u00a0\u201cWith the Mark One, we were able to prototype and iterate on some of our designs much faster than we would have been able to otherwise. We were able to go from one new part design change a month down to multiple iterations every day, which was really really great.\u201d The printer\u2019s strength, capabilities, and quality were able to help Rest Devices pull through and fulfill the promises they made to their customers, as Lipoma went on to explain: \u201cWe were also able to reduce some of the costs of some of those parts down from 2 or 3000 dollars to have something sent out and milled down to just the cost of the material.\u201d<\/p>\n

After they used the Mark One to solve their critical fabrication challenges, the company had room to experiment: \u201cWhen we originally got the Mark One to help solve some of the problems we were having around the bottle warmer, we were really excited about how it was going to help us iterate faster and cheaper,\u201d said Lipoma. \u201cOnce the machine had some down time and we started to play around with what we could really do with it, we found so many more uses.\u201d The Mark One was an instant hit at Rest Devices, allowing the company to prototype strong parts without the fear of operation complexity on a milling machine or the price and lead time of a third party manufacturer. \u201cImmediately we started to change out some of the parts in our manufacturing equipment, as new problems came up on our manufacturing line, we were able to immediately solve them, it basically started replacing a lot of it with prints.\u201d The Mark One has exponentially decreased prototyping time and costs at Rest Devices, improving company processes in almost every aspect of their design and manufacturing stream.<\/p>\n