Report on 3D Printing Technologies, Production, and Value Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing. It explores various aspects, including the technology's role in both high and low-volume production scenarios, emphasizing its impact on rapid prototyping and customisation. The report delves into the value proposition of 3D printing, examining different technologies like material extrusion, VAT photopolymerization, and material jetting. It also includes forecasts from leading research and investment firms, highlighting the potential for growth and innovation across industries like automotive, aerospace, and healthcare. The report further discusses how 3D printing can make traditional manufacturing processes obsolete and offers recommendations for ensuring consumer safety and the integration of 3D printing within various manufacturing processes. Finally, the report emphasizes the importance of engaging with the product safety community and supporting the safe design of 3D-printed products.

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Executive Summary
The 3D printing is important for handling and controlling the creation of the objects. It includes
the using of the digital model data from the 3D model or the electronic sources. The forms are
set to define about the conventional machining process, where the 3D printing or the additive
manufacturing works over the computer aided designing.

Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
3D printing called additive manufacturing......................................................................................2
3D printing: high or low volumes of production.............................................................................4
3D printing Value............................................................................................................................5
Leading research and investment firms forecast for 3D printing....................................................5
3D printing makes some types of traditional manufacturing obsolete............................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Referencing......................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
The focus of the work is on the 3D which is important for the additive manufacturing and
handling the process of the deposits of the binder material. This is on the powder bed with the
inkjet printer that is set layer by layer. (Campbell et al., 2011) The term is important for the
encompassing of wider variety of the additive manufacturing with the technical standards used
for the broader sense. The ISO/ASTM52900-15 has been for the manufacturing process with
directed energy deposition.
3D printing called additive manufacturing
The 3D printing works on the technology which is not capable for the cost effective or the end
products or the high volume commercial manufacturing. The focus is on the higher to the short
ranges where the technology works over the emerging class of the mid-level 3D printers to work
over high-end system features in the desktop form at the lower pricing points. The printer speed
is increasing with the product spectrum that is found to be one high end system under the
development to 500 times faster than the top machines (Weller et al., 2015). The patents are
mainly for the development and innovation which includes the experimentation to determine
about the prototypes.

The technology works on advancement of coordinated development with printers and the
printing methods, software to design and printing and the materials. The evolvement of the
design and the manufacturing strategies are mainly to make use of the 3D printing solutions
where the technology has been loosely coordinated and works over the printers and the printing
methods (Gill et al., 2016). The focus is also on the methods of performance with the
management in multiple materials and capabilities for producing the finished products.

3D printing: high or low volumes of production
The 3D printing works over the rapid prototyping where there is customisation, design freedom,
and the small manufacturing which allows the low cost and the low volume production as well.
The focus is on reshaping the product development and manufacturing where the process,
designers tend to save the time and money with conceptualisation and testing prototypes. The 3D
printing can reduce the injection moulding process timeline from months to days and hours. With
the 3D manufacturing, this will include the optimisation of production with lowered costs which
works over the plastic items, injection moulding that is expensive when there is a low production
as well (Mendis et al., 2018). The 3D printing is possible when there is a low production where
the production rate increases upto 20 times with lower cost. The company can also purchase 20

3D printers with the injection moulding system. The 3D printing tends to handle the additive
manufacturing which is fast and versatile mainly because the tools can be printed in less than a
day. For the small manufacturer, the expensive and the labour-intensive part for the product
development is mainly the tooling process which includes the elimination of the costs and
removing the needs for the tool production with cuts that lead to the time and labour.
3D printing Value
The different range of technologies are important for the computer aided design model or the
digital scanning (Van den akker, 2017). The material extrusion tends to make use of the nozzle to
extrude the semi-liquid material to create the object layers. With this, there are thermoplastic
extrusion, plastic jet printing and the fused filament methods which makes use of the 3D
printing. The VAT Photopolymerization also makes use of the 3D printer where the techniques
are for the light source to solidify the successive object layers with the position set for the
perforated platform. The material jetting also makes use of the print head to spray the liquid
layers which are then solidified by the exposure to the UV light. This also focus on offering the
higher resolution for the 3D printing where there is different multi-colour, multi-material output
by spraying the different materials from multi-nozzle print head. The binder jetting makes use of
the print head that is for the spraying of a binder with the layers of power that are set with the
spray of the coloured inks mainly on the powdered layers that allow the production of the full
colour output.

Leading research and investment firms forecast for 3D
printing
The manufacturers work on the broader spectrum of the industries which include the automotive,
aerospace, higher technology and the medical productions which are important for the piloting
and using the 3D printing technologies (Ambrosi et al., 2016). The research of the General
Electric plans is for the mass production with LEAP engine nozzles with Additive
Manufacturing and the other commitments. The forecast is for the growth and work on the 3D
opportunity with additive manufacturing paths to performance, innovation and the growth. The
prototype and the product development, innovation is considered important for the companies
that are pursuing the 3D printing with the organisations to handle the delay in investments in 3D
printers. The estimates are about the integration with the production process where the
prototyping is set with the in-depth analysis of the 3D printing ecosystem.

3D printing makes some types of traditional
manufacturing obsolete
The technology works over the consideration about the fund projects that tend to deal with the
cost of manufacturing where the new model for the manufacturing is set with the CAD designing
to the 3D metal printer (Guney et al., 2017). This is for the metal injection model where the
injected molded parts are for the quantity and working over the robotic assembly which place all
the electronic components on PCB. The focus is on rendering:
a. The waste prevention where the final output could be a great loss. Hence, the challenge is
non-existent with the materials are used for the finished product.

b. The easy prototypes production works on the daunting process with 3D flexibility set for
the assembling of designs in the computer system.
c. The seamless production works on the transition where the print process is set with
automatically stopping the event of malfunctioning to prevent the production hazards.
d. The mass customisation is another major factor for producing the customised goods with
individual personalisation. The ability is to focus on the ideas where the traditional
manufacturing works over the data collection, with entering the variance in the computer
system and specifying the quantity to be printed (Kamyshny et al., 2017).
Recommendations
The 3D printing is based on the discussions which relates to the concept of the new
advancements and the technologies. The process is based on using the specialised equipment
with assembling the object layer by layer with the unique advantage. The product safety
community can work over ensuring the access to the resources which are for the designers and
the producers. Here, the ISO consumer policy committee has the product safety working group
which work over the safety of the raw materials with proper use of the products within ISO/TC
261 scope. The designing community also need to work on taking the initiatives with ensuring
the safety of the consumer with the integral product designing. This is important for improving
and collaborating with the system standards. The 3D designing works on establishing the forums
that are for collaborating and working over the product with safe designing. This will help in
focusing over the primary target of the safety education where there is an academic, private and
the government organisations to work on the development and the adaptation of product safety
education and the guidance materials which are important for the 3D print designers and
producers.

Conclusion
The 3D printing works over the consumer product safety with the focus on the engaging with the
product safety community, with supporting, educating the customers that include the prosumers,
new product supply with the effectiveness (Wood et al., 2017). The forms are set to monitor the
development of product and work with the product design developers and the designing schools
to support the safe designing (Stansbury et al., 2016). The monitoring is based on the safety of
the feedstock and the filament that is important for the consumer product 3D printers and
actively manage the risks, associated.

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