
Nick Classen
General Manager of NW Rapid Manufacturing, a McMinnville, Oregon provider of EOS SLS polymer 3D printing services for UAV and aerospace production.
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Sep 29, 2026
Building Drones at Scale: SLS Production from Low-Volume to High-Rate Manufacturing
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Fabian AlefeldHOST
Can you maybe talk about the philosophy that you guys have from a prototyping perspective? How do you engage with end users? How do you engage with drone companies? And how do you also make sure that they use additive to its fullest potential in prototyping, but also down the road?

Nick ClassenGUEST
So, you know, it's the engineers in these companies have really, it's really changed over the last 20 years.

Nick ClassenGUEST
You know, early on, you know, you would see designs very, you know, designed in a way that they were planning on machining the components and what you would have, you know, so the designs, the models would be based off of what you would see for manufacturing and, you know, aluminum or steel.
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