Inside 3D Printing Seoul Meets the Smart Factory http://bit.ly/2EC0bN2 Inside 3D Printing Seoul is entering its 6th year and has become one of Asia’s premier additive technology events for the digital transformation of design, development and manufacturing all driven by Industry 4.0. With the theme of ‘A New Era of Advanced Manufacturing’, Inside 3D Printing decided to diversify its exhibitors. This was needed due to the continuous increase in demand from advanced manufacturing in South Korea, which includes CAD/CAM/CAE, industrial robot, drones, metrology, inspection, monitoring, tooling, mold, CNC, smart sensors and automation verticals. South Korea is not only an advanced country in IT infrastructure but also a manufacturing powerhouse. Korean major corporations, called ‘Chaebol’, including Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK, Hanwha, CJ, etc., have decided to invest KRW 300 trillion (or approximately USD 250 billion) in the next 5 years in order to find new promising industry sectors. Unlike a number of non-specialized events in Asia, Inside 3D Printing Seoul brings the 10,000+ active industrial AM users as well as supplier groups together every year. This event is the best launch pad for both domestic companies looking for a global audience and for international companies looking to tap the Korean market. Further, more diversified products or additive technology for advanced manufacturing are to be exhibited for the first time at Inside 3D Printing Seoul. With the name of ‘Smart Factory Zone’, the first exhibitors will be given various benefits including 20% off price, premium location near cafeteria and maximum exposure in multiple online/offline channels. Good news for this year’s event is for 3DPrint.com and SmarTech Analysis to join as co-producers of Inside 3D Printing Seoul, which will further upgrade the event and provide the best marketing platform for 100+ exhibitors, sponsors and 10,000+ buyers from around the world. Another piece of good news is that it is still available to exhibit before 10,000+ buyers and active user groups from 28 countries with increased discount rate compared to last year. If interested in limited exhibiting or speaking opportunities for forthcoming Seoul event taking place on June 26-28, please contact Inside 3D Printing Secretariat (inside3dprinting@kintex.com) or visit our website (www.inside3dprinting.com/seoul) for more information. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 27, 2019 at 10:57AM
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3D Printed Color Soft-Tissue Maxillofacial Prosthetics Offer Many Benefits to Patients Today5/27/2019 3D Printed Color, Soft-Tissue Maxillofacial Prosthetics Offer Many Benefits to Patients Today http://bit.ly/2EAuVOy Researchers Faraedon M. Zardawi and Kaida Xiao have recently published a paper, ‘Optimization of Maxillofacial Prosthesis,’ delving into anaplastology and the positive impacts of 3D printed prostheses. Here, the authors assess color, soft-tissue prosthetics fabricated on a Z Corp Z510 with Sil-25 silicone polymers. While such devices may be an incredible gift for so many, the area of prosthetics is still notably rife with challenges. Comfortability and design issues are major concerns—along with affordability, ongoing size-ing for kids, and speed in manufacturing—but the patients themselves often have serious struggles in adapting to defects or sudden physical loss (as with an arm or a leg or another part of the body). It can be devastating to lose an arm or leg, or even a finger, but deformities of the face can be further distressing for patients. Self-consciousness can be overwhelming, and patients with facial disfiguration may not want to go out in public. Facial prosthetics can be extremely helpful, but the authors point out that they are usually not able to completely restore function in exercises like chewing, for example, and surgery is usually only able to rectify small problems. It is not surprising that individuals of any age suffering from defects in the craniofacial region may become extremely depressed and embrace isolation. Medical intervention can make an enormous difference, and especially with prosthetics after such as cancer may lead to tumors requiring surgical removal—resulting in a surprising amount of disability, from vision problems to limited ability to chew.
Most devices are created via impressions, casts, and then usually wax models which translate to the final product, with matching skin tones. Current, conventional methods have proven challenging though, due to the amount of time and cost involved, not to mention ‘esthetic’ issues. Such limitations mean that accessibility and affordability in developing nations is ‘almost denied’ as only a small percentage of patients are offered facial prosthetics or can afford them. 3D printing technology, however, offers the potential to make sweeping changes—and even allows for a skin-like silicone material and the use of starch and colored ink to create skin tones. This requires great attention to the skin, however, in measuring ‘spectral reflectance,’ and developing a color profile. Silicone samples were tested for hardness, tensile strength, tear strength, and elongation. The researchers did note with increased hardness that the prostheses become limited in terms of flexibility. The researchers noted that most challenges with mechanical properties were due to too much starch and a lack of cohesion with the silicone polymers. They suggest further testing with multiple prototypes being printed at once to ‘compensate for the drawback in the mechanical properties’ as the prostheses that are 3D printed could have much shorter longevity—but are so affordable that it is easier to replace them. As the researchers point out, such prosthetics can also be refined and then printed out for patients ‘on-demand,’ offering incredibly customized, patient-specific care. Affordable 3D printed models may also be extremely helpful as interim devices too while patients are healing from surgeries.
3D printing has offered massive strides not only in the medical field, but also in the realm of prosthetics. While this definitely includes many different choices today both in artificial leg and arm replacements, medical professionals are able to offer other life-changing, optimized devices that are patient-specific, including prosthetics that are made for the eyes, ears, and so much more. What do you think of this news? Let us know your thoughts! Join the discussion of this and other 3D printing topics at 3DPrintBoard.com. [Source / Images: Optimization of Maxillofacial Prosthesis] Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 27, 2019 at 03:27AM 3D Printing News Briefs: May 26, 2019 http://bit.ly/2X7hxZw This year’s RAPID + TCT ended late last week at the Cobo Center in Detroit, so we’re again starting off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with more news from the busy show floor. DyeMansion launched a new extended color series at RAPID, while 3D Systems made the announcement that its Figure 4 Modular is now available. Moving on, SLM Solutions just celebrated the grand opening of its new Shanghai application center. Finally, a Reddit user made an adorable miniature 3D printer. RAPID 2019: DyeMansion’s New Colors Munich startup DyeMansion, a leader in finishing and coloring solutions for 3D printing, launched its new ColorsX extended color series for end-use productsat RAPID last week, in order to continue helping its customers achieve the perfect finish for all of their applications. Automotive ColorsX and Neon ColorsX are the first solutions under the startup’s X Colors for X Industries premise, with more to follow in the future. The automotive color line has improved light and heat resistance for better 3D printed polyamide components and interior car parts, and features Automotive BlackX, which has a less saturated black tone than DyeMansion’s basic DM Black 01 and was created according to ISO EN 105 B06 method 3’s hot irradiation standards. The luminous neon color line includes GreenX, YellowX, OrangeX and PinkX to help create striking end-use products. Both of these new color lines are compatible with DyeMansion’s PolyShot Surfacing (PSS) and VaporFuse Surfacing (VFS).
Once DyeMansion decided to launch its ColorsX series, it also named the coloring process it established back in 2015: DeepDye Coloring (DDC), which can be easily controlled and traced through integrated RFID technology and offers a limitless choice of custom colors. VIDEO RAPID 2019: 3D Systems Announces General Availability of Figure 4 Modular Also at RAPID last week, 3D Systems announced the general availability of its scalable Figure 4 Modular production platform. The flexible digital light printing (DLP) system has multiple configurations that can print parts with high surface quality, and allows manufacturers to iterate designs more quickly, as well as produce end-use parts without having to worry about a minimum order quantity. Three models make up the Figure 4 – Standalone, Production, and Modular – and several customers, such as D&K Engineering and Midwest Prototyping, are reaping the benefits. Additionally, 3D Systems also announced five new DLP and SLS materials, the first of which is the immediately available Figure 4 FLEX-BLK 10. The other new Figure 4 materials, such as TOUGH-BLK 20, MED-AMB 10, MED-WHT 10, and HI-TEMP-AMB 250, are expected to be available in Q3 and Q4 of 2019.
3D Systems also announced that its customers Rodin Cars (based in New Zealand) and North Carolina-based Stewart-Haas Racing are using its plastic and metal 3D printing solutions to improve the speed and performance of their cars. SLM Solutions Celebrates Opening of New Shanghai Application Center The same year that SLM Solutions opened an applications and demonstration center in Germany, it also established Chinese operations in Shanghai. Earlier this week, the selective laser melting experts celebrated the grand opening of their expanded office facilities and application center in Shanghai, which will help the company continue to grow its presence on the Asian market. The new center has installed four SLM systems: one SLM 125, one SLM 500, and two SLM 280 printers. Additionally, the facility also has equipment to represent an SLM build’s supporting process chain, such as a metallurgical lab and post-processing capabilities. The grand opening included a tour through the new new customer service and application engineering center.
Mini 3D Printed 3D Printer A reddit and imgur user by the name of “Mega Andy” used 3D printed parts and DVD drive motors to make his own miniature 3D printer. And by miniature, I mean that he used a banana for scale, which was taller than the 3D printed 3D printer itself! It’s a really interesting project – the device runs Marlin, and features a glass bed and an E3D V6 hotend. The black and gold parts of the mini 3D printer were made out of PLA material, while PETG was used to make teeth for the leadscrews. Speaking of this, Mega Andy said that the printer is “fairly unreliable” because it easily ruins the teeth that guide the device on the leadscrew. Additionally, he’s also working to improve and lengthen the Z axis due to binding problems. Mega Andy released the STLs onto Thingiverse so others could try to make their own versions of the miniature 3D printed 3D printer…say that five times fast.
Discuss these stories and other 3D printing topics at 3DPrintBoard.com or share your thoughts in the Facebook comments below. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 26, 2019 at 02:03AM Twikit Showcases Mass Customized Braces and Automotive Parts at Rapid 2019 http://bit.ly/2HDovQQ Belgian mass customization software company Twikit showcased a number of mass customization cases and applications at RAPID + TCT 2019. The Twikit team was able to show BMW Group’s Mini customized products, customized motorcycle parts and unique braces. Twikit is really the only firm that has specialized individualization software that can readily mass customize unique parts for 3D printing. Whereas you could go to other firms to build custom digital supply chains to tie into your 3D printing workflow or you could cobble together half a dozen software tools to do the same in an improvised way Twikit’s is a dedicated tool. It was built from the ground up to enable the rapid parametrization of new geometries that could then made with 3D printing. Mass customization is usually a wonderful subject for conferences but most corporates shy away from actually implementing the technology. Too complex, ruffling the feathers of the supply chain and manufacturing guys and a perception that it would be hard to implement scare companies off. Whereas I’m usually very skeptical of startups I’m very optimistic about Twikit’s prospects and their tooling. The company has spent a long time pioneering deep in the darkest woods and the world has finally caught up with it. The BMW mass customization case is, of course, the one that caught all the headlines. Thanks to Twikit Mini owners can now use an online tool to mass customize decorative items on their cars. The software connects with BMW’s internal workflow and existing management software to give a traceable manufacturable solution to the German luxury auto giant. Twikit also worked together with OEM Formlabs to create customized motorcycle handles for startup Tarform. The handlebar is a central element in your control, contact with and experience with the motorcycle. I’ve personally long believed that handles for tennis rackets, golf clubs, steering wheels and all manner of things are a huge applications so I love this implementation.
I love the idea that through 3D printing you could achieve better ergonomics, or perhaps have a more comfortable ride or better control over the bike. The user’s increased satisfaction with the bike because they designed part of it will also help. You can see a video here of the process. The application with the most far-reaching implications, however, was one where Twikit’s software was used to make customized braces. Through Twikit 3D scan data could be turned into a unique orthotic or prosthetic. Here the software was used to obtain a precise comfortable fit to the human body. In applications such as postoperative braces, braces and across the spectrum in orthotics and prosthetics, the need for something like this is huge. Twikit has created a key bit of technology that can really accelerate the adoption of mass customization and 3D printing. With the right partners this could be pushed out to millions of parts worldwide. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 25, 2019 at 12:57AM GE Additive & General Dynamics Land Systems 3D Print Metal Part for US Ground Combat Vehicle5/24/2019 GE Additive & General Dynamics Land Systems 3D Print Metal Part for US Ground Combat Vehicle http://bit.ly/2X5tGxW
Along with creating the part in Pittsburgh, GE Additive also offers the following support in additive manufacturing:
General Dynamics realized their need for innovation as they began seeking a way to create parts that are higher, offer better performance, and are faster to make.
The part will replace an older 18-part steel component, and both companies expect it to be the precursor to many similar following applications. The teams from both companies are working to streamline the phase from prototyping to actual production, using GE’s EBM Q20plus machines. To do so, they will have to put several specific dynamics into place:
3D printing has certainly earned its own street cred over the past few years—with demanding users in nearly every nook and cranny of the world—but when you realize how many different types of combat and military applications it has been used for, the respect grows deeper as we learn more about 3D printed submarine hulls, durable components made from thermoplastic parts, and titanium parts for fighter planes. What do you think of this news? Let us know your thoughts! Join the discussion of this and other 3D printing topics at 3DPrintBoard.com. [Source / Images: GE Additive] Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 24, 2019 at 04:03PM
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3DPOD Episode 8: 3D Printing Pioneer Janne Kyttanen http://bit.ly/2K4zjJ9 Today Max and I spoke with Janne Kyttanen.Janne is a great guy and a true 3D printing pioneer. Janne was one of the first designers active in 3D printing. He pioneered end-use products, lamps, 3D printed fabrics, 3D printing design in and of itself and much more. 3D printed goods woudl all look very different today if Janne didn’t show us a way to design them. We really liked listening to Janne recount his journey and talk about some of the things he is involved with now including mass customization of ice cream and investing. We hope that you enjoy this episode as well. As ever please give us feedback and suggestions. The first podcase on going beyond PLA is here, our interview with Direct Dimensions CEO Michael Raphael is here, our episode on bioprinting is here, 3D printing in medicine is here, 3D printed guns is here. and here is the fourth industrial revolution, all of them are here. You can find them on Spotify here. Podcast (podcast-audio): Play in new window | Download Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 24, 2019 at 01:08PM Interview with Gina Scala of Stratasys on 3D Printing in Education http://bit.ly/30GsL9G Gina Scala is in charge of marketing Stratasys’ education efforts. She also is in charge of marketing the company’s entry-level F123 series 3D printers.The education market is huge for 3D printing. Far from formalized education and 3D Printing is a wide open subject. In our podcast we discussed it at length. Will it have an impact on education? On what level? Will it only be available to high school students? Kindergartners? Will it be the path through which 3D printing gains in broader adoption or a fad? We spoke to Gina to find out what she thinks and what Stratasys is doing on education. What’s happening in 3D printing education? Where we are seeing growth is in design schools, art schools, and in medical. A lot more areas are now taking an interest in 3D printing. They are integrating technology into curriculums and into their offerings. At the University level, people are looking at planning 3D printing more. At some universities, they now have so many 3D printers that they use online maps to find all of the printers on campus. For the past years, there was organic growth all across the campus. Now we’re seeing universities looking more at growing intentionally. They’re looking at their needs and requirements more and are then deploying printers across campus or in labs. We’re also seeing more and more graduate programs in 3D printing emerge as well. For a university should I put a 3D printer on every desk, use a cluster or a lab with a bunch of different technologies in it? it depends on your needs. Rapid Prototyping labs tend to have higher rates of technicians, so, for now, they have the highest productivity. Deployed printers that are used for a very specific thing do well also. For a university that is just getting started the most important thing to do is to not have just one champion. You really will need two to three. I also wouldn’t recommend getting 40 small printers. Instead get one printer that gives you reliability and control, like the F120. You know it’s going to run and its simple to use. When you reach 70% productivity on that printer then get the next one. For what levels of education is 3D Printing suited? The first 25 F120’s went to high schools. Here they’re used as shared resources. They can let people focus on the learning and logistics of 3D printing without having to fiddle with the printer. Ease of use, plug, and play. Load your part and go. As time goes on the technology will get used more useful at lower grades. Is lack of CAD ability holding 3D printing back? Design for Additive Manufacturing is prerquisite to using these tools for advanced uses. This does mean that for some applications there is a barrier point. The knowledge and skills are technology are getting easier to use all the time. At some CAD packages have gotten simpler through things such as giving you primitives to use. What are some new things that you’re seeing? Microfluidics is something that we’re seeing emerging applications in. We now have Advanced FDM in GrabCAD Print. This lets you change advanced settings such as infill/texture in Print without you having to go back to CAD. In jigs in fixtures for example on the manufacturing line, a worker could easily fix a fixture in the file in GabCAD. We’re doing a lot of material innovation on the F123 series with things like TPU and a lot more will be coming to that platform. It is the most deployed 3D printer that Stratasys has ever had. They are more plug and print machines that make it easy and efficient for you to work with them. With a steel frame, linear rails kevlar belts and things like controlled airflow across the chamber, pound for pound they’re superior to the competition. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 24, 2019 at 05:03AM Interview with Fabrisonic on Embedding Sensors in 3D Printed Metal Parts http://bit.ly/2Hxe2WO Fabrisonic has a very unique 3D printing technology. The company’s UAM (Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing) process can take layers of metal tapes and through ultrasonically welding them and then machining them create 3D objects. Ultrasonic vibration has been used as a welding technology before but the firm has commercialized it for our market now. UAM lets you do very exciting things such as joining different metals, work with relatively inexpensive feedstock and embed sensors in metal parts. Now Fabrisonic is lowering the cost to get started with their technology by offering an entry-level machine, the SonicLayer 1200 for $200,000. Often times Fabrisonic can seem kind of a Don Quichote of 3D printing pioneering an own path that is very different than other companies all working on the same technologies. Can the firm go it alone? Or will it succumb to a VHS wars kind of pressure where Video 2000 lost to the wider adopted VHS? Will it find a niche such as the one it is trying to carve out in embedded sensors? Or will it find broader use but for heat exchangers or exotic blends of metals? We sat down with Fabrisonic’s brilliant Mark Norfolk to find out. How is Fabrisonic doing?
What are some examples of things that people are making with Fabrisonic?
What are some of the advantages of your technology?
Why is 3D printing heat exchangers so promising?
With electric cars will there be possible demand in that arena for your technology?
What work has been done on microchannel heat sinks in heat exchangers?
Can you make gradient/functionally gradient parts with Fabrisonic?
Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 24, 2019 at 04:27AM Are Bioprinting Proponents Just Big Talkers? http://bit.ly/2WrB7lY In ‘Three‐Dimensional Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine: Reality, Hype, and Future,’ authors Anthony Atala and Gabor Forgacs explore some necessary topics within 3D printing and bioprinting. The technology has brought forth incredible innovation capable of transforming manufacturing, design mechanisms, and offering never dreamed of self-sustainability that could be even more useful in the future for the military, aerospace, and many other organizations. Healthcare, however, and the medical realm have already been heavily impacted by 3D printing. The momentum continues to accelerate undeniably too, as researchers discover new ways to improve the lives (and perhaps even save them) of patients in dire need of relief or assistance through numerous different types of devices and implants. Beyond all the hullabaloo and the hype though, with talk of technological magic and industrial revolution, the authors examine the real potential for bioprinting and further progress in regenerative medicine. To begin, they remind us of the staggering complexity of the human body, evolved during millions of years of trial and error and the weeding out of imperfections with natural selection:
They also comment on recent stem cell technology advancements, the ability to grow cells in vitro, and the impact of engineering from within the lab—resulting in some organs that have been implanted in patients during clinical trials.
Although at this point you may have become desensitized to ongoing news about the engineering of tissue in the lab, it is certainly no easy feat. A tissue biopsy must be taken, cells must be coddled into growth and beyond that must survive, which is the greatest challenge, aside from implanting them for the required application at hand.
Materials are complex in tissue engineering and bioprinting, obviously. Many different elements must be in place, and conditions must near perfection, along with all interactions between cells and chemicals—and accompanying technology. 3D printing, although available for decades now and used by engineers as well as aerospace and automotive companies, has become so accessible and affordable that it is becoming commonplace in schools, libraries, labs, hospitals, and many businesses and factories. As the technology has also branched off into bioprinting and automation, via cell-laden, extruded inks, researchers have discovered the following benefits:
As the authors point out, progress has indeed been remarkable; however, hitting the mark with fabrication of human organs has not been as easy a goal to meet as previously expected:
Bioprinting is an extremely complex undertaking with the most delicate materials imaginable: human cells. And while such technology may have sprung from the dynamics of 3D printing, the process and outcome are much different, comparing the simplicity of a completed, functional object with cells that must be nurtured into the desired form—with the ultimate target being that of an actual human organ.
If you want to learn about true perseverance—combined with affinity for technology and innovation—just keep your eye on progress emerging from 3D printing users of all kinds from all over the world. Due to the intrinsic and infinite opportunity to create offered by 3D printing technology, engineers, designers, tinkerers, makers, manufacturers, and many more are drawn to trying their hand at finding ways to improve on conventional parts and prototypes, along with constantly perfecting and stretching the limits of their tools. The results of bioprinting, demonstrating strides in patient care from corneal grafts to 3D printed brain tumors, often leave us incredulous over learning what is happening in research labs globally; however, the true reward for most who are involved in such studies will be successfully 3D and 4D printing human organs that can be used as transplants and truly change the face of modern medicine forever. What do you think of this news? Let us know your thoughts! Join the discussion of this and other 3D printing topics at 3DPrintBoard.com. [Source: Three‐Dimensional Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine: Reality, Hype, and Future] Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com May 24, 2019 at 03:24AM Industry Experts – David Calderon http://bit.ly/2YNrXxF
Today we will be doing an interview with David Calderon from the CASTOR team. CASTOR is a decision support system for utilizing industrial 3D printing. They connect manufacturers to 3D printing capabilities. This helps to enhance their business while they try to leverage technical expertise. They are a startup that is based in Tel Aviv and have been featured as a startup in TechStars. David is a co-founder and Vice President of Business Operations for CASTOR. Who is CASTOR?
In terms of IOT and 3D Printing, what are the core competencies needed for a company to do well?
If someone has no idea about IOT and 3D Printing, how would they need to educate themselves? What kind of projects can one do with their standard 3D Printing setups available to them?
The team is based in Tel Aviv. How does this affect interactions with the technology sector as most development done is in different locations within the world? How are you positioned?
So you guys have experience with the Stanley+Techstars accelerator program. Can you explain how this process went and how it has helped in your growth as an organization?
What is the five year plan?
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