What is 3D printing and why is it relevant for your business?

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In the beginning… In the early 80’s scientists began with the development of the 3D printed technology that was mainly applied industrially.

Construction Aerospace Food

Fashion Medical Many more…

Now.. used in many different industries.

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

Creating a solid structure by laser some powdered metal, After each layer is sintered together, the structure drops and the next layer is built on top of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5MfBAV_tA

Lasering the surface of a liquid substance, layer by layer. When the laser hits the surface it becomes a solid material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM55ct5KwiI

Stereolithography (SLA)

Printing layer by layer with melted plastic filament or metal wire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6G67GJbM

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)

There’s a range of different techniques

Anthony Atala, professor and director of wake forest institute for regenerative medicine, holding a 3D printed kidney during his TED talkin 2011.

BIO PRINTING

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have come up with a way to 3D print very precise on a nanoscale. This building is 50 nanometer or 1600 times smaller then a human hair.

NANO PRINTING

Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of the human body that would otherwise be unreachable without invasive surgery.

NANO BOTS

Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print objects that then reshape themselves or self-assemble over time.

4D PRINTING

Skylar Tibbits is trying to program water pipes that contract and relax like muscles. Tibbits’s pipes can expand and shrink in response to changes in water volume, and could eventually. The goal is a “self-regulating system,” where pipes could even repair themselves in case of a puncture.

4D PRINTED WATER PIPES

The self-assembly lab from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is researching the 4D printing techniques. They are testing if they can print self assembled buildings. That means that we could print tiny skyscrapers with a 3D printer that self assemble themselves to big buildings. !

What means we could print skyscrapers and bridges in the future.

SELF-ASSEMBLY

3D PRINTING CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

• Printing at home

• Fabrication labs instead of shops

• Growing E-commerce

• Customisable products

• Faster delivery

• Higher Life expectation

• …

Formlabs is developing an affordable high-resolution 3D printer for printing at home

Hardware Superstore Home Depot Gets into 3D Printing Act

Foodini, a 3D Food Printer

A new 3D printed face for cancer victim, Eric Moger

3D PRINTING CAN CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS

• Shortening process

• Reduce production costs

• Parts on demand

• lower logistics costs

• Easily replaceable parts

• Less assembly, energy, waste, storage and transport

A Shanghai based company called WinSun 3D-Prints ten houses in a single day

Urbee is a crowd-funded project with the goal to create the greenest car on Earth. The 3D-printed body was revealed at TEDxWinnipeg in 2011.

Fabrication labs are the factories of the future, the community is growing faster and faster

3D PRINTING CAN CHANGE YOUR WORLD

• Everything goes faster

• Visual changes

• Transport will reduce

• Ecological produce

• Developing countries gain new opportunities

• …

Developing countries gain new opportunities. NOT impossible, 3D-printed prostheses give hope to amputees in war-torn Sudan

Ekocycle cube by Will.i.am + coca-cola 3D prints using recycled plastic bottles

Lux research forecasting 3D Printed part market grows to $8,4 Billion in 2025

Old world vs. New world

A lot of waste

Global economy

Monopoly production

Stock production

IP protected

Sweatshops

Environmentally friendlier

Local economy

Democratization production

Ad hoc production

Easy reproduction

Home printing

How will you implement 3D printing in your business?

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