@iamwillcannon: An Army unit needed about a hundred drones but didnt order them Instead they printed them in house Meet DHR Engineering an automation company that built a print farm to make brackets and fixtures for its own projects Forty four printers running as one system a custom robot on a rail pulling finished beds and loading clean ones and software that assigns jobs and reroutes work when a machine goes down One operator about an hour a day And drones arent what that farm usually prints The drone run went overnight with zero operator interventions Then the same farm printed biodegradable lace for a garment collection on demand only as many pieces as the collection actually needed The machines dont know what theyre making and it doesnt matter Heres where it gets insane The Armys 101st Airborne is applying the same idea They needed about a hundred airframes and built an in-house printing program at Fort Campbell to produce them locally on unit level funding But the craziest part We could be heading towards a world where nobody orders parts anymore You describe what you need and a room full of printers makes it Hashtags: #DHREngineering #101stAirborne #DHREngineeringPrintFarm
