Housing Construction Industry
Today, in many parts of
the Western world, building a house is a process that requires a tremendous
amount of different materials. For instance, housing materials in New York, depending
on one’s taste, can come from all over the world; things like Canadian lumber, Mexican
rocks, Italian marble, Chinese plastics, and Floridian sand. These materials
may all have their own unique aesthetic features, but they also all pose
certain structural limitations. The possibility of truly curved windows and
walls is very limited due to structural load limits or costs.
Impact of Globalization
Globalization has
broadened the creative and innovative possibilities for constructing houses, particularly
as new solar and wind technologies have entered the market. Now, in addition to
your aesthetic materials being sourced all over the world, you may also have
German solar technology built into your house to heat it in a green way.
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Impact of 3D Printing
A
Chinese company called WinSun has recently begun building almost entirely 3D
printed houses and small office buildings. These structures are not only
revolutionary in their construction, but they are built from nearly entirely
recycled materials. Furthermore, other technological institutes around the
world have begun developing plans to create 3D printed houses that defy any
current possible structures. As the access to new materials increases and
large-scale 3D printing projects become increasingly possible, housing
construction will likely start to take on a whole new shape. Innovation in the
field is already underway, and once writ large, the industry will entirely
transform.
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
OEM is an industry that
provides infrastructure, man power to their clients to produce or help assemble
products, according to their requirements. Most of the companies
(manufacturers) are very are flexible in production because they are not taking
orders from a single clients, they are mostly the manufacturers of different
brands or industries simultaneously.
Impact of Globalization
The effect of
globalization brings a heavy impact to OEM. Since the information cost is much
lower due to globalization, also the innovation on the Internet. The gross
profit of OEM must be affect because the clients of OEM are easier to compare
the prices of different companies.
Also, the globalization
not only affects their profit, but also the cost. The labour or supplier can
easier to know their market prices. For example, in Zhujiang Delta, many
employers have already been complaining about the increasing labour cost and
the lack of labour supply.
Impact of 3D Printing
Although
some of the OEM have high technology level with high flexibility, the
flexibility of 3D printing is impossible for traditional OEM to reach. For
example, a traditional OEM requires templates to process the manufacturing.
However for 3D printing, only CAD file is needed and the CAD file can be edited
and transferred, the costs of transportation and adjustment of the products are
much lower, not to mention the higher flexibility. Besides the impact, the OEM
can make good use of 3D printing by merging with this technology. The OEM can
turn itself into a partner of 3D printing, like partially replacing its
production process by 3D printing.
Dental
care industry
Dental care is an industry
that manufactures and customizes different kinds of products to assist licensed
dentist to provide dental health care. The varieties of products are crowns,
bridges and dentures etc.
Impact of globalization
The R&D cost for the
dental care industry was high before as they have to develop a dental
laboratory to do the research. The globalization can bring lots of dental laboratories
together. They may share the information of their research to each other. The
technology of dental care will become more mature.
Impact of 3D printing
When the dental care
company manufactures the dentures, they may face the problem that there are
many intricate details for different people, such as a tooth's irregular
grooves, crannies and valleys. 3D printing can help to reproduce the complete
removable dentures in a faster and feasible way. This process can be able to
custom manufacture the dentures with intricate details. For instance, if the
patient would like to repair a cracked tooth, the dentist will scan the
patient's teeth and then use a 3D printer to cut out the implant. With the
scanner and 3D printer doing the work, the dentist can have more time to build
customer satisfaction as they do not need to manually model the detail of the
denture. Also, the CAD file can be saved as the patient's record, the dentist
can assess the file when they do the review with the patient.
Supply Chain
Management Industry (Prototype in R&D)
Now days, sourcing and trading is not competitive for
international trading company duo to the mass competitor and transparent
market. For trading company to keep growing, get involving with the whole
supply chain is really important. Like what Li & Fung did in the past few
decade, get into clients R&D and together with the traditional trading
company functions like sourcing, trading and distribution can be the core
competence for most big and successful trading company.
Impact of Globalization
Normally, clients’ work together with few suppliers and the
speed of response to clients’ R&D become the key factor for a trading
company. Globalization makes this game even more interesting and tough for
those local players. Earth village become the hot topic due to the fast develop
Internet and convenience for traveling and transportation.
Impact of 3D Printing
Most of the trading company has their own design team working
closely with clients’ R&D department, to deliver sample for approval is the
hard core, because this requires sample mold making and shipment time,
especially the impact of globalization. 3D Printing is like the magic for this
kind issue for trading company, it easy to send the design data and 3D print
out by suppliers to double confirm how and if can be made and as well as
clients for outcome sample to see the appearance.
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