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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.
The Comprehensive Manufacturing Cost Guide
Manufacturing Cost Categories, Pricing Factors, and How to Calculate Table of Contents Monitoring and controlling expenses are the best ways for businesses to be both competitive and profitable. But where to begin, and what is manufacturing cost? In the world of custom parts manufacturing, your decisions hinge on a wide
Quality Control in Manufacturing: Methods, Best Practices, and Implementation
Table of Contents Every manufacturing business has a vested interest in maintaining the highest possible quality control for its customers. However, that can be especially challenging for service providers of low-volume prototypes or custom parts because they deal with a constantly changing array of designs, materials, and processes. The good
Manufacturing Cycle Time: Best Practices, How to Calculate & Reduce
Table of Contents Production environments for manufactured parts are under constant pressure to offer the highest possible quality to their customers while controlling – or even lowering – costs. To make great custom parts in the shortest time, savvy factory managers must use modern equipment, software solutions, and best practices
The Complete Guide to Manufacturing Processes
Table of Contents Though the world of parts manufacturing is large and complex, all manufacturing processes use one of four primary production strategies: volume-based production, strategy-based production, platform-based production, and method-based production. Each strategy consists of manufacturing methods showing how virtually everything is made in the modern world. To truly
Star Announces AEO Certification
Star Rapid is now an “Authorized Economic Operator”, a certification recognized by the World Customs Organization (WCO) as part of the international SAFE program, or Standards to Secure and Facilitate global trade. Star was actually approved for this program in 2021, but Covid restrictions delayed final certification. OK, that sounds
All about multi-cavity injection molding for high volumes
Want to know how to maximize production throughput and reduce costs when making high volumes of plastic injection molded parts? The answer lies with multi-cavity tooling, where it’s possible to produce up to hundreds of finished parts in a single injection cycle. In this Serious Engineering video, Gordon Styles shows
