3 dimensional printed material and labor and energy as they turn out. In the wilds goods to be produced in lower quantities for more authors closer to the point the construction. Technology could have the power to revolutionize the flow of goods and the production market. But its disruptive for destroying the old production methods that were used for decades and now are supposed to use 3 to protect the award. From the project now it looks set to become a technology that might even enjoy. A comeback has. Berlins quite spec district is home to a Company Called big rep which makes large scale 3 d. Printers. Engineered defined by a founded the company in 2014 now its 90 employees work in International Teams to design and manufacture 3 d. Printers for industrial clients have been 1000000 more on yet and one for. The printing is done with plastic for example to manufacture cladding for houses that regulates the inside temperature based on how high the sun is does it have any. Need of water for this will be a part of a facade thats 10 by 20 meters. The great thing about this cladding is that it reflects sunlight in summer and lots in sunlight during winter which creates a pleasant climate and misc. Big rat also makes spare parts. By this is a head rest for passenger train seats just. Before the head rest is missing or broken people are going to be uncomfortable but we can supply a new frame was one thing the. Post designed the headrest prototype and this testing it for German Railway company. The printer piles thin layers of material on top of each other in this case melted plastic filament the process is now Additive Manufacturing. Builds up objects instead of carving them out of a block. 3 d. Printing is based on computer models they could be scans of spare parts or entirely new products like this electric motorcycle he had a big rep team is building a prototype of the measure cycle that is to go on display 2 weeks later at the forum next trade fair in frankfurt. Still have a lot of work to do before the form next we have to get the printers ready and print out lots of parts of it. Almost all the bikes parts have come out of the printer including the elastic tires the frame and the lights. Many components consist of biodegradable plastic made from corn starch. The team needed just 12 weeks to get from the preliminary design sketches to the finished prototype. But theyre still working out a few bugs. The engineers spent a year to bring within me printers and now the machines can be installed in a production line and controlled automatically thats an important step towards mass production. So far 3 d. Printing has been used mainly for one off project. Just. By the great thing about 3 d. Printing is that we can create parts that used to seem impossible to. Classical Manufacturing Processes simply could not work with certain complex geometry and see such as a furniture in. This gripping device for roebucks which is based on the design of the human finger. The device is outfitted with flexible snaps that provide a nonslip grip. The question thats only thought out and does the fascinating thing is that our Creative Process is completely digital with. The engineers can sit down at the computer and just design something. And their imagination is no longer limited by classical production methods such as sawing or milling or didnt read so much was ignored a phrase and. This revolutionary new concept may well improved the ways that industry designs manufacture and transport its products. And she cargo is home to a number of new High Tech Companies including fast radio they print components that are precise enough for use in the Mechanical Engineering industry. Fast radius often using plastic caressing which allow for faster printing. The process looks like something out of a Science Fiction film the metal foot dips into the residence solution. All. The components solidify on the bottom as if by magic no molds and a date night inside the solution. In shoulder timely certain parts harden and. This process makes the product lighter and also uses fewer role materials the companys cofounder and c. E. O. Is a recipe fast radiuses working with Logistics Company u. P. S. To completely rethink the concept of supply chains of manufacture will have a profound impact on how Global Supply chains work we call it the 4th modality of logistics in fact i what we mean is that through Human History we have moved parts in 3 ways by ground by air and by sea and now we have a 4th mode of transportation and that is moving part by the internet at the speed of our. Digital production offers a tremendous freedom to potential clients a global 3 d. Printing that can provide products more efficiently transport great social and there are no specialized factory. These days 3 d. Printers can make just about anything and robots automatically supervise the assembly line. These machines can print single pieces or entire series of products 24 hours a day. But so far 3 d. Printing accounts for only a small percentage of Global Manufacturing sales which now total about 12 trillion dollars revenues for the 3 d. Printing industry and 2017 were only about 7000000000. 00 but over the next 10 years sales are expected to reach 100000000000. 00. Theres a lot of spare parts and now made by 3 d. Printers companies can simply scan and store the components instead of keeping them for years in warehouses and they can print new parts whenever they need them. How many data points to be got from this part from each scan its in the millions points they were gathering. And and now for a point like this 1000000 the point is is a little redundant so what happens is the computer it so notices redundancies points where it can simplify and then throws away hundreds of thousands of points. The scans are stored in a digital facility and can be printed at any time the Companies Save money because they dont have to keep lots of products in big warehouses and their machines last longer because spare parts are always available. One of our clients is an Aerospace Client they had a need for a critical tool for repair normally it would have taken them 48. 00 days to have the tool fabricated in a conventional methods instead they ordered a part from our virtual warehouse and we made the parts certify the part and delivered it halfway around the world within 48 hours its often faster to print a component part than it is to build it from scratch in future this will likely be done on site this situation threatens to transform the way that Logistics Companies like u. P. S. Do business it would eliminate lengthy transport rates well warehouses for custom a spare part thats why u. P. S. Has teamed up with fast radius to Start Building a Global Network of 3 d. Print service providers. You know allows goods to be produced in lower quantities more often closer to the point of consumption thats going to radically change the supply chain and u. P. S. Has to be able to change with it in the end so thats why were investing in this in this area because we want to be part of this evolving ecosystem many products will no longer be my. Theyll be printed individually to meet the specific needs of clients that will help to eliminate over production and long transport. Production also office and number of other advantages. If youre a producer or an audience of one so a custom shoe or a customary or a custom or bardic those are not going to be produced a mass of factories is going to be much more economical to produce those using 3 d. Printing and so but all of those materials still need to get to the 3 d. Manufacturer and instead of you know shipping out you know thousands of things and balk youre going to have thousands of individual shipments so to a company like u. P. S. Thats very good it might be good for u. P. S. But less so for traffic and the environment it means more trucks delivering more products and emitting more pollution an effect weve already seen with the rise of Online Shopping and there are other risks for example how can 3 d. Printing companies prevent the manufacture of illegal weapons. What were doing we make sure we strain every company that were making parts for to ensure that theyre not making on regulated firearms yeah theyre doing. That criminals will always find ways to get the weapons they want homemade firearms are nothing new but todays high quality 3 d. Printing materials can withstand extreme pressure and so they could be used to make weapons. In 2030 in some israeli reporters used as 3 d. Printer to make a handgun and then tested it. On. Just about a headshot well below minutes. Later the reporters smuggled the gun into the Israeli Parliament building in jerusalem. The gun had a metal firing pin but security devices failed to detect it. Israeli Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu was attending a ceremony in the building the reporter who had the 3 d. Gun was seated just 10 rows away from him and even pointed the weapon at the Prime MinisterNetanyahu Office later criticized the reporters actions as irresponsible. The hamburg district a fink and badda is home to an air bus factory. The head of the companys emerging Technologies Department is made. His team uses 3 d. Printed prototypes to help improve components. The idea to have had your head of him for this put in charge a competitive manufacturing definitely has the potential to change the entire value chain and we can do production on site redesign processes and print on demand we can develop completely new products for next generation aircraft because this is where our bus assembles its a 350 passenger jets a key component is now being printed in quantity the door locking shelf. There due to fly in the aircraft later this year. Our division. This component usually consists of 10 parts but the airbus version has just one of them weve been to graded several functions and reduced the weight of there are 2 of these parts per door and they make the aircraft lighter by 4 kilograms thats a lot in the aviation world theyve got it cuts down on fuel consumption and c o 2 emissions right through. Over the 30 year life span of an aircraft one less kilogram of weight will save half a 1000000 liters of fuel. 350. 00 actually has a lot of 3 d. Printed parts. 16 door lock shafts. 20 brackets for the crew cabin compartment. And more than 1000. 00 plastic parts and panels ventilation systems and electronics. Air buses even testing prototypes of electrical parts. 3 d. Printing is typically used to build great stretches like this capn partition wall the printed version uses less material and so its lighter than previous models where lines are always trying to reduce the weight of their planes to say fuel but airbus believes the 3 d. Process could be even more efficient puzzle if. This is the largest component that we can make right now wed like to build bigger ones it took us. Total of 900 hours to produce a complete partition wall and 7 construction chambers that means we had to start up a printer 7 times to produce the 116. 00 parts we. Were not there. But. 900 hours of printing time for just one wall thats a lot of work in future the hope is to print a mold and then cast it again and again right now conventional mass production methods can still produce components like this more quickly and cheaply than 3 d. Can. But that could soon change. The form next Additive Manufacturing trade fair in frankfurt there are some sophisticated examples of 3 d. Technology here like this model of a human body printed in one go. Plus m. A man advises companies on which 3 d. Production methods might work best for them he says that more and more businesses are making the transition to this technology. The Automobile Industry think the Automotive Industry is now starting to design 3 d. Components for their vehicles so i guess thats good for the environment or northerners because those parts will be produced only on demand and they can be made using powder which can be delivered locally and printed out anywhere in the world where theyre needed all stalky for example these lightweight brake pedals were made by 3 d. Printers and produced a sin they call factory that cuts down on waste and emissions. Yes spahn we typically save 6 tons of c o 2 emissions per kilo compared to conventional methods in this your home this facility in the state of lower saxony will be able to print 3 g. Component parts out of alum minium fully automatically this technology could encourage companies to keep their production facilities in germany instead of exporting them overseas. Yes if we can bring those factories back to germany provided that theyre fully automated. And if we can do that was willing crease the economic value of German Companies or in those i love. The traditional mass production is still unbeatable a cheap particularly in asia 3 d. Printing will have to bring Something Else to the table like printing several components at once such innovations could enhance the competitive profile of German Companies. 3 d. Printing is already well known for its ability to produce complex prototypes. The motorcycle designed and built by big rep was finished in time for the expo but Companies Say that theyll have to do a better job of giving customers what they want. We all know that for 30 years think about it 30 years theres been a promise made through the industrial custom out there what 3 d. Printing can do for them we were talking about speed are we fast enough and printing were talking about precision is that whats coming out of the machine really what we want is a repeatable are we getting the same part over and over again this is what the customer the industrial customer wants and i think we all agree theres been great disappointment a rounded then that were going to change today thanks to some applications many kinds of 3 d. Printer. A still to slow to get a precise answer too expensive but improvements are underway. To new big rep printers work up to 10 times faster than the old ones printing speed is the key to making 3 d. Technology more profitable. And carbon fiber materials can make the printout smudgy rable in fact a u. S. For cold carbon based near San Francisco has seemed out with added asked to make souls for bullshitters paddy das is a pioneer in the use of 3 d. Technology and its products. The cofounder and chairman of carbons board joseph di simone invented a process to tell aus for the mass production of custom made component. Based Companies Partnership with added its a big step forward no ones ever taking 3 d. Printing the high volume adidas represented a seminal moment i would argue in the history of industry where weve got volumes that now allows the have a cost down curve. Just like injection molding. This process could present a Cost Effective alternative to conventional mass production methods 2 years ago it took more than 2 hours to print a shoe soles like this one now it takes just 30 minutes. This will allow the 3 d. Printing world to go from a 10000000000. 00 prototyping world. To a 300000000000. 00 manufacturing job or not so far thats just a vision the great struck share of the 3 d. Shoes so cannot yet be fully customized and production will not be relocated to germany where us is based the printed cells the shipped to factories in asia where the shoes are assembled. So right now this is not a particularly Sustainable Production model. But that could change in future. General sustainability thats a combination of things one is the materials ation the other one is mitigating supply chains right and having parts on demand or local for local production but it goes well beyond that weve had some breakthroughs now where we can get into bio based feedstocks. Compensate still mainly print with polymer residence thats a petroleum so the light sensitive materials enable the company to make products with complex structures. But its also working on ways to make the product saying it will. Heat is going to do it all polyurethane show theyve set targets out in the next 10 years or less to have shoes that are recyclable and we have the ability to deliver here at the frankfurt trade fair such visions of 3 d. Printing sound like a welcome development. But how likely are they to be realized. Economist or. Skeptical about promise for free. Because my these are mainly visions or hopes for the future but at this point theres not much evidence that more sustainability is really being achieved. Petro works at the institute for Ecological Economic Research in berlin the institute has demonstrated on whether a mobile phone case printed at home in germany is more environmentally friendly than one that. Asia and found out that theyre about the same. Thats because the lower 2 emissions from local 3 d. Printing are offset by the High Energy Consumption of the printing machines. This process is neither particularly sustainable nor economical but it can be profitable for some companies under certain conditions you want to Name Companies can generally make money on expensive 3 d. Printing projects only if they can speed up or streamline production still theyll use fewer materials and some products could be recycled even if that custom made. Weve come to the reflow recycling company in amsterdam to find out whether 3 d. Printing production really is sustainable about 80 percent of printed products im a different last tick and thered be a fraction of them are recyclable or biodegradable this machine a reflow 10 discarded plastic bottles into plastic filament that can be used for printing the granules come from the bottles the material is suitable for 3 d. Printing and its cheap. Filaments from reflow we use to build the walls of a shop in london that sells fashions made from recyclable materials sustainability is often good for business but not everyone is willing to pay more for these products so reflow sells its recycled filaments at the same price as its competitors whose products are less the stain of word. Industry is interesting because they see that consumers are asking for it right in big macroeconomic friend. And in the show this will just have to follow for example reflow supplies 3 d. Material to a company that makes sunglasses this would replace an entire block of raw plastic from which the frames and normally melts that cuts down on plastic. Clothes recycling technology is already being used in several other countries. In india plastic bottles picked up from garbage dumps can be converted into plastic filaments for 3 d. Printing and those who collect the bottles can and some extra income. This technology can help to enhance local value added cycles all over the world converting discarded plastic. Products. This 3 d. Printing industry is expanding rapidly and growing ever faster and more efficient but it will be some time before we see the promise improvement like short supply chain reductions in over production the elimination of warehouses for better parts and the use of recyclable materials in closed loop. Hole that will require a lot of new investment. On the ocean. And. Its been closed for a year but we can take you inside a get. A digital stroll around the no 2 donkey troll in paris. Using ffion dongles you can take a tour of the now reconstructed house of god. Virtual to no true dom as youve never seen it before in your world. In 30 minutes on d w. N sync overcome boundaries. Changing the world with dance. No words required. But a full body in. Totality just go out the. Parts 20 or. 90 minutes on w. 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