It was the age-old issue,” Rapid Fusion CTO Martin Jewell says, walking towards the result of several years’ worth of R&D, “of time, quality and cost.”
Pick two, sacrifice the other. The way it is. The way it always has been. And the way Jewell and the Rapid Fusion wanted it to be no longer.
By the time Jewell has clarified that when he says cost, he’s talking about the cost of making the part, rather than the £500,000 price point that fixes industrial companies firmly as the target audience, the doors of Medusa have opened.
They fold out to reveal the inner componentry and capability that warranted a big celebratory launch event just weeks earlier. Medusa is Rapid Fusion’s third 3D printing system to be introduced to market – following the Apollo and Zeus platforms – and the first to package the capability into a box, rather than have users become experts in robotics technology. It is a hybrid system, made up of three tool heads that enable filament extrusion, pellet extrusion and CNC machining.
