A part that quotes cheaper overseas often costs more once it lands. How to compare total landed cost — freight, tariffs, carrying, MOQs — not just unit price.
Total Landed Cost: What a Cheap Overseas Quote Hides Read More »
Reshoring isn’t failing on patriotism — it’s failing on a 1985 cost model. Domestic production pencils out only when you rebuild the factory, not relocate it.
Reshoring Stalled Because the Math Is Stuck in 1985 Read More »
How to decide between 3D printing and injection molding — the break-even math, the cost of guessing wrong on volume, and where each one actually wins.
Bridge Manufacturing: When to 3D Print Instead of Cutting a Mold Read More »
New food-contact, medical, and flame-retardant photopolymers arrive almost monthly. How to match a 3D printing resin to a regulated part without overspeccing.
The 3D Printing Resin Menu Changes Almost Monthly Now Read More »
On our floor a production printer runs twenty feet from a CNC mill, and nobody calls one ‘advanced.’ A note on additive growing up into ordinary manufacturing.
Additive Manufacturing Is Becoming Just Manufacturing Read More »
A nuclear test reactor is being commissioned in Orangeville, Utah. A Carbon County manufacturer’s view on what it means for coal country’s next chapter.
Nuclear Power Returns to Utah Coal Country, Just Down the Road Read More »
Merit3D runs Formlabs Fuse SLS printers in production. An operator’s take on the new Fuse X1 and what high-volume SLS actually requires on a real shop floor.
Formlabs Fuse X1: An Operator’s Early Look at High-Volume SLS Read More »
Custom-textured grips at production volume: when texture-as-geometry SLA printing beats traditional injection molding plus pad-print, and when it doesn’t.
Custom-textured grips at production volume: an additive guide Read More »
How Merit3D produces custom-branded bow belt-clips for Alaska Guide Creations, with logo and grip texture printed directly into the part — no tooling, no secondary labeling.
Branding as geometry: 5 years of additive production with Alaska Guide Creations Read More »
What engineers should send alongside the CAD file to get faster, more accurate additive manufacturing quotes — a practical DFAM brief in 5 parts.
Designing for additive: 5 things engineers should send us before they send the CAD file Read More »
