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... This report is a record of the workshop event prepared by the workshop rapporteur, and any statement or view set down in the report must be considered an opinion expressed by a knowledgeable individual participant at the workshop, not a consensus view. To organize its workshop on low-volume manufacturing, the DMMI standing committee first organized a workshop planning group to identify workshop topics and agenda items, speakers, and invited guests.
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... Potential issues in commercial manufacturing services considered during the discussions at the workshop included these: • Materials and processes that are unique to defense manufacturing; • Dual-use facilities; • Reliability of commercial items for use in military environments (e.g., extreme temperature, high humidity, shock, vibration, and radiation environments) ; • Agile manufacturing -- quickly switching among products and economi cally produced items in small lots for DOD and in much larger quantities for commercial markets; and
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... The recurring themes are as follows: • What constitutes low-volume manufacturing? • Reducing the cost of low-volume production, • Challenge of access to raw materials, • Improving the methods of performing low-volume manufacturing, • Appropriate incorporation of COTS technology and commercial manufacturing, • Affordable process qualification and product certification, and • Understanding the relationship between additive manufacturing and low volume production.
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