Supposed to use 3 d. Printing will be a lot. Harder now it looks set to become a technology that might even. Have less to come back. Balance quite spec district is home to a Company Called big rep which makes an arch scale 3 d. Printers. And joining a chef and 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 of in the middle known yet been launched for rolling. The printing is done with plastic for example to manufacture cladding for houses that regulates the inside temperature based on how high the sun. Does it up and. Made of was of how 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. You know. Big rat also makes spare parts. This is a headrest for passenger train seats. Before the head rest is missing and broken people are going to be uncomfortable we can supply a new frame was one thing that can. Be grabbed post designed to headrest prototype and just testing it for German Railway company. The print piles thin layers of material on top of each other in this case melted plastic filament the process Additive Manufacturing. Builds up objects instead of carving them out of a block. The printing is based on computer models they could be scans of spare parts or entirely new products like this electric motorcycle here the big building a prototype of the measure cycle to go on display 2 weeks later at the form 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 careen with the new 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. Thus. The great thing about 3 d. Printing is that we can create parts that used to seem impossible which 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 maps that provide a normal grip. The question thats on that i thought out and does the fascinating thing is that our Creative Process is completely digital. 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 improve 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 radius they print components that are precise and durable enough for use in the Mechanical Engineering industry. Radius often using plastic resin which in our foster printing. The process looks like something out of a Science Fiction film the metal foot into the rest insulation. The components solidify on the bottom as if by magic no molds and he did like. The solution. Ensure the timely certain parts harden and take shape this process makes the product lighter and also uses fuel materials the companys cofounder and c. E. O. Is a recipe fast radiuses working with Logistics Company u. B. S. To completely rethink the concept of supply chain out of manufacturing 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 parts by the internet at the speed of light. Digital production offers a tremendous freedom to potential clients a global 3 d. Printing network comparable huge products more efficiently transport great social and there are no huge specialized factories. 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. A lot of spare parts and now made by 3 d. Printers. Companies can simply scan and stool 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 and 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 company 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 or its often fast it 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 customers spam pots 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 trade with it in the and 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 mass produced theyll be printed individually to meet the specific me. That will help to eliminate overproduction and long transport free. 3 d. Production also office and number of other advantages. If youre a producer for an audience of one so a custom shoe or customary or a custom orthotic those are not going to be produced a mass of factories its 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 safe 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 and nothing new but todays high quality 3 d. Printing materials can withstand extreme pressure and so they could be to make weapons. And 2013 some israeli reporters used as 3 d. Printed to make a handgun and then tested it. Just about a headshot well below it. 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 Minister netanyahu is off base later criticize the reporters actions as irresponsible. The hamburg district to think and that 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 inverters put in charge to 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 air bus assembles its a 350 passenger jets a key component is now being printed in quantity the door locking shaft. Theyre due to fly in the aircraft later this year. Or division. This component usually consists of 10 parts but the airbus version has just one weve been to graded several functions and reduced the weight and there are 2 of these parts per door and they make the aircraft and lighter by 4 kilograms thats a lot in the aviation world it cuts down on fuel consumption and c o 2 emissions through. Over the 30 year lifespan of an aircraft one less kilogram of weight will save half a 1000000 liters of fuel the a 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 cabin partition wall the printed version uses less material and so its lighter than previous models their lines are always trying to reduce the weight of their planes to save fuel but airbus believes the 3 d. Process could be even more efficient. 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 the thing about i look at. 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 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. Klaus am a man advises companies on which 3 production methods might work best for them he says that more and more businesses are making the transition to this technology. Will be years before the Automotive Industry is now starting to design 3 new 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 produce to send a cool factory that cuts down on waste and emissions. Yes spawn we typically save 6 tons of c o 2 emissions per kilo compared to conventional methods in this your home this facility 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 its a really good 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 in those along. 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 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 Company Execs 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 repeat of 0 are we getting the same part over and over again this is what the customer of the industrial customer wants and i think we all agree theres been great disappointment around then that were going to change today thanks to some applications many kinds of 3 d. Printing. A still teams 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. Firm called carbon based near San Francisco has seemed out with added asked to make souls for sports shoes das is a pioneer in the use of 3 d. Technology and its products. The cofounder and chairman of carbon boards. A man invented a process to tellus for the mass production of custom made. His companys partnership with adie death is a big step forward no ones ever taking 3 d. Printing to high volume adidas represented a seminal moment i would argue in the history of the industry where weve got volumes that now allows to 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 sole like this one now it takes just 30 minutes. The 3 d. Printing world to go from a 10000000000. 00 prototype in world. To a 300000000000. 00 manufacturing job or not so far that division the grid struck sheriff 3 d. Shoes so cannot yet be fully customized and production will not be relocated to germany where based the printed sos of ships 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. Digital sustainability thats a combination of things one is the materials action 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 that are more lightweight but its also working on ways to make the product. Is going to do a polyurethane ship 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. Printing sound like a welcome development. But how likely are they to be realized. Economist or. Up to karl about a promise from me. As 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 demist r. T. On whether immobile phone case printed at home in germany is more environmentally friendly than one mass produced in asia and found out that there are about the same. Thats because 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 if you want to name what 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 theyre 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 are made of plastic and then a fraction of them are recyclable or biodegradable this machinery reflow 10 discarded plastic bottles into plastic filaments that can be used for printing the granules come from p. T. 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 distain a bull word. Industry is interesting because they see that consumers are asking for it right in big macroeconomic friend. And industry this will just have to follow for example reflow supplies 3 d. Material to a company that makes sun glasses this would replace an entire block of roll plastic from which the frames are normally melt and that cuts down on plastic waste. Recycling technolo