Voodoo Manufacturing Introduces Project Skywalker

The word "innovative" is easy to overuse, particularly in this industry, but there's no other way to describe what Voodoo Manufacturing has named Project Skywalker: a fully functional, robot-operated 3D printer cluster. It was developed because, according to the company, employees were spending up to 15% of their time "harvesting" build plates, i.e. removing them from the printers after print jobs were completed, taking the prints off the plate, and replacing them on the printers. It's a task that can be a minor annoyance to individual, at-home 3D printer users, but in a large 3D printing facility churning out thousands of prints every day, it adds up to a lot of time being spent by employees who have plenty of other things they need to do. 3DPrint.com talked to Voodoo Manufacturing Co-Founder and CEO Max Friefeld about the development of the project and why factory workers shouldn't worry about being replaced by automation. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/167938/project-skywalker-voodoo/

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