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At Huafast’s 3D printing operation in Shenzhen, thousands of desktop machines manufacture toys and other products. On some of the equipment, getting a design into production still involves carrying an SD card to the printer. Wireless interference makes sending files across the factory unreliable. Cheap machines have arrived faster than the infrastructure to manage them.
The scale would once have surprised Timo Führer, a partner at AMPOWER, the additive manufacturing consultancy. Having visited Huafast himself, he recalls doubting whether filament extrusion could support such large operations. He was similarly sceptical about Zellerfeld’s plans to manufacture shoes using the process. “When I