Today additive manufacturing technology became a synonym for rapid prototyping. Conventional manufacturing is no longer considered to be competitive for making rapid prototypes or low quantities of unique products. In this thesis, we try to show the competence of the manufacturing process of highly flexible milling with anthropomorphic robot for producing prototypes. For comparing the two technologies we created a unique and one of a kind wrist splint for recovery from a wrist sprain. The splint was firstly produced by a highly flexible process of milling with anthropomorphic robot whilst we were tracking the time and costs created. Then we checked the cost associated with FDM printing of the splint and did the cost analysis. We gathered that printing was 26 % cheaper than milling, but the result was not waterproof. The use of highly flexible process of milling with an anthropomorphic robot can be justified when the product is a functional prototype or a testing part before moving on to the mass production with an injection molding process.
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