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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Manufacturing

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  1. 3D Printer Produces Device to Help Baby Breathe

    University of Michigan doctors saved an infant's life in 2013 by 3D printing a biodegradable splint to hold his collapsing trachea open. One of the first surgical applications of personalized 3D-printed implants, and a milestone in custom medical device fabrication.

  2. How Data Is Changing the Car Game for Ford

    GigaOM on how Ford was using sensor telemetry, customer behavior data, and simulation to inform vehicle design decisions in 2013 — an early industrial example of data closing the loop between product performance and design iteration.

  3. It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property

    Public Knowledge's 2012 white paper examining how existing copyright, patent, and trademark law applies to 3D printing — and arguing that the right policy response is restraint, not a DMCA-style preemptive clampdown. The title says the technology will be awesome if policymakers don't overreact.

  4. Hard Drive Shipments Recover from Thailand Floods

    Engadget reports hard drive shipments recovering to record highs after the 2011 Thailand floods that destroyed major HDD manufacturing capacity — a supply chain crisis that drove SSD adoption and revealed the geographic concentration risk in disk manufacturing.

  5. As 3D Printing Heats Up, Stratasys And Objet Merge

    TechCrunch's coverage of the Stratasys-Objet merger in 2012, consolidating two of the largest professional 3D printing companies. A market-structure moment in the first mainstream wave of 3D printing hype.

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