CloudDDM Luanches 100-Printed Facility in UPS's Worldwide Hub.

[Brian_Krassenstein]

In news which has just broke, a startup called CloudDDM has launched a large manufacturing facility which features 100 3D printers and just 3 employees. This facility is conveniently located within UPS's worldwide hub, via a tie-in with the shipping company. Because of their location CloudDDM is able to ship items orders as late as 6pm Pacific time which have under a 4 hour print time for Next day delivery. The company will eventually house as many as 1,000 3D printers at the Louisville location and then expand to both Asia and Europe. More details on this story can be found here: http://3dprint.com/62642/cloudddm-ups/

Below is a picture taken inside of CloudDDM's facility. Let us knwo if you've used their services:

[Phillygone]

A few questions:
1. Knowing that 100 printers that are going around the clock require quite a bit of post processing, how can you keep up with it with only 3 employees?

2. If Shapeways currently outsources a lot of their printing, how do you plan to keep your machines busy?

3. How do you plan to make this business profitable?