Friday 21 December 2012

Who's Ready to Grow their Own #Jewelry this #Christmas ???


Jewelry- It can now be grown!

What if you were told that the beautiful necklace around your neck was printed! You would surely be in the state of shock and surprise and probably tell me off calling a lunatic, but you would surely be intrigued about the new ways of manufacturing jewelry and jewelry displays.
In today’s technologically advanced world of manufacturing, the ways of production have positively evolved. This advancement has had its benefits and consequences that have been criticized over the years, mainly the downsizing of human resource in the production line. The manufacturers of jewelry, jewelry packing and jewelry stands face a similar challenge from now onwards. The invention of MLAB Machine that is basically a 3-D printer is now able to print the virtual jewelry designs from metal dust.

The positive outcome of this invention is that it is stable, fast and has almost zero wastage while producing the jewelry. It uses laser to melt and shoot the metal dust to the specific point and build the design particle by particle. The process looks to the naked eye as if the beautiful design is slowly growing and coming to life.
The downside of such production method would be eliminating the human emotion and craftsmanship from the equation. A jewelry designer is inspired by the exotic beauty of nature and attempts to transfer his imagination and understanding of the beauty into his work when he sits down to craft it. It would be very difficult to achieve this human emotion when producing jewelry in such manner.
The methods have not yet been implemented by all but many of the profit oriented manufacturers are bound to take advantage of this mass producing technology. Their selling point seems to be to make jewelry affordable as the discussed method has zero wastage and costs less to produce without the human hands involved.

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