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Star Rapid’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.
Rapid Prototyping is an Ideal Solution for the Medical Supply Chain
The global response to the threat of Covid-19 has revealed in stark detail many of the serious problems in the worldwide supply chain for needed medical products like ventilators, diagnostic kits and personal protective equipment. Some supply problems are related to...
6 Product Design Tips from Robots
You may never have heard of Mr. Joe Jones, but he's the inventor of one of the most successful commercial robots ever made - the Roomba. Mr. Jones, a graduate of MIT, has experience designing hundreds of robots and he's identified a few key precepts that apply to good...
Star Rapid Announces ISO 13485:2016
Quality Management System for Medical Device Manufacturing Star Rapid is proud to announce that we have completed the certification process for ISO 13485. What is ISO 13485:2016? ISO 13485 is a set of standards that define and control a company's quality management...
The Top 5 Plastic Injection Molding Defects (and How to Solve Them)
Plastic injection molding is the most widely used mass-production process in modern manufacturing. It's so popular because useful products of every conceivable size, shape and function can be made quickly and efficiently with reliable and repeatable performance. As...
4 Manufacturing Leadership Traits to Overcome a Crisis
Every significant industry in the world must now confront major challenges to their operations due to the ongoing effects of the novel coronavirus. Traditional and once stable supply chains have been disrupted, while some sectors of the economy have all but vanished...
Micro Machines are a Big Win for Plastic Injection Molding
We're excited to announce that we've expanded our capabilities in plastic injection molding with the recent addition of two new Babyplast horizontal micro molding machines. This demonstrates our commitment to providing the most agile manufacturing services for...
Tips For Verifying A Supplier Remotely
As a product developer, you may be wondering how you can verify the integrity of your supply chain during these uncertain times, with so many quarantine and travel restrictions in place. While it may be difficult or even impossible to visit a supplier in person, there...
Ingenuity, Invention and Teamwork in the Fight Against Covid-19
Although it may seem like there's only bad news these days, we'd like to share with you some amazing and inspirational stories about private citizens all over the world leveraging technology, creativity and the tools of digital communication to fight back against the...