Analysis of 3D Printing Technology: Business Scopes and Future Use

This report delves into the realm of 3D printing technology, exploring its fundamental principles and diverse applications across various sectors. It begins with an overview of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, and its role in creating three-dimensional objects from digital files. The report examines various uses and examples of 3D printing, including its impact on manufacturing, healthcare, education, and other industries. An in-depth analysis of the business scopes associated with 3D printing is provided, highlighting its potential to revolutionize product development, prototyping, and manufacturing processes. The report also proposes future applications of 3D printing technology, including its potential in aviation, architecture, jewelry, and the food industry. The report concludes with recommendations for businesses considering integrating 3D printing into their operations, emphasizing its capacity to drive innovation and competitive advantage. References from various sources are also provided.

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Executive Summary
3D printing technology has brought a revolutionary change in printing technology and opened
scopes in several fields. 3D printing has several applications in field of manufacturing,
architecture, custom art as well as designing. 3D printing process is used social cultural sectors
that facilitates 3D printing becoming successful commercial technology. With current
improvement of science and technology, the 3D printing technology turns out to be most
valuable and propelled advancements, which can be pertinent in local uses and information, are
described in the study. In addition, the study presents the business scopes presence with the use
of 3D printing technology. Proposal for using 3D printing technology in future is described in the
study.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
3D Printing technology........................................................................................................5
Use and examples of 3D Printing technology.....................................................................6
Analysis of business scopes.................................................................................................8
Proposal of how 3D Printing technology can be used in future........................................10
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................11
Recommendations..............................................................................................................12
References..........................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The current development of 3D printing technology in society is engaged with the limit to
help people by through doing tasks. Present report bargains the defining 3D printing technology
and its current usage. In addition, scope for 3D printing technology in organziation is
accomplished in the study. In addition, in view of the discoveries, how 3D printing technology
can be consolidated into activity of the business is portrayed in the present report. As the piece of
investigation, potential focal points and burdens are talked about in the report.
The Chief Executive Officer of The organization3D printing technology likes to explore
the way toward making simple through creating key empowering agent to accomplish focused
advantages. The organization is additionally concentrating on facilitate enhancement over up and
coming five years and utilizing ICT as one of the center capabilities. The specific arrangement of
the organization is to use 3D printing technology including with increasing of the work of the
organization inside Australia alongside Asian area. In this point of view, CEO of the
organization is occupied with the way toward utilizing the usage of 3D printing technology as a
key technology that can be considered as one of the parts of growing the procedure. As the
system has results in both positive and negative viewpoints in business points of view, it is
expected to research on business methodology that has been described the report.
3D Printing technology
Xing, Zheng and Duan (2015) stated that 3D printing or additive manufacturing is a main
process to develop three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file. Hence, creating a 3D
printed object is produced using additive process. In additive manufacturing, an object is

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developed by laying down successive layers of the particular materials until the particular layers.
However, every layer is seen as think sliced and horizontal cross section of the object. Moreover,
3D printing is opposite method of subtractive manufacturing procedure. It is a hollowing part of
metal and plastic for milling machine (McMenamin et al. 2014). The technology enables
generating complex part of milling machine. It uses less material than conventional method of
manufacturing. Hence, it is important to select right approach that can be helpful for the
organization for the organization and use 3D printing technology in order to gain competitive
advantages.
3D printing technology starts with development of 3D model in computer. The digital
design for example is created from the ground with 3D modeling software and the data produced
with 3D scanner. Thus, with the help of 3D scanner, a digital copy of the object can be created.
At current days, 3D modeling software comes with several forms. There is industrial grade
software, which costs much a year per license (McMenamin et al. 2014). On the other hand,
there are software applications on the market, which can cater to transportation, designing
furniture, transportation among others. Hence, the amount of selection can be overwhelming. It
can be recommended that starting with Tinkercad. It is available free as well as works in the
browsers that support WebGL, for an example, Google Chrome. They provide beginner lesions
as well as developed in the options in order to get the object printed through several 3D print
services.
Use and examples of 3D Printing technology
The 3D printing industry it is exceed that $ 21 billion all over the world revenue by 2020.
3D printing technology is usually destined transforming majority of the industry and makes

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change the particular (Lee et al. 2016). People have opinions that 3D printing can be separated
into metal, fabrics as well as bio and entire host of the industries.
AusRAIL is considered as one of the vital meeting places where 3D printing has
application in manufacturing. Use of 3D printer element is without going through normal
procedure of manufacturing. The implications of emerging technologies like 3D printing on
industrial manufacturing market are debated. Some of the experts in the particular industry feel
that it is highly disruptive. Forecasting project important development in the industry over the
years is stated by website (McMenamin et al. 2014). The 3D printing industry is generally
expected changing every industry shares disrupting conventional manufacturing procedure. As
the market increases along with the competitors in the traditional markets, the prototypes for the
new products will become important and considered as less expensive and risky to fabricate.
The emerging technology has an important role that helps to improve the products and
become less expensive as well as less risky to fabricate. Product development as well as
competitive environment is considered as two potential implications. The emerging technology is
likely to have important impact on the process of doing business by manufacturers. 3D printing
technology has potential making the process of manufacturing options infinite as well as
extremely precise. 3D printing technology has potential in making the manufacturing process
options infinite as well as extremely precise.
In healthcare market, various factors influence global 3D printing like advancement of
technology as well as enhancement in healthcare infrastructure. However, increase in the
percentage of aging population as well as investment in research and development sector.
Implants or prostheses are 3D printed for user body in specific. It is important to optimize that

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the work for the products need to be contrary and better known cases of personalized medicine.
3D applications in medicine sector are increasing. It consists of customized implants as well as
prosthetics. In healthcare market, 3D printing has an important role to be considered.
In 2017, Materialise has reported that increased revenues of software, medical as well as
manufacturing industry. (Cesaretti et al. 2014). CEOs can view 3D printing as an advantage. It is
expected that 72% rise in spending for 2018 as well as in spending 55% expect in 2018.
However, metal printing is climbing. It is expected that there is massive amount of research and
development putted investing Google as well as General Electronic are investing in several
technologies over the year.
Applications of 3D printing technology consist of rapid prototyping and architectural
scale models as well as maquttes. In addition, 3D printed prosthetics as well as movie props are
included in this (Jové et al. 2017). On the other hand, reconstruction of bones as well as body
parts in the forensic pathology as well as reconstruction of heavily changed evidence that is
acquired from the investigations if crime incidents. Education is one of the major fields for
applying 3D printing technology (Radenkovic et al. 2016). The organizations undertake
programs in order to promote the business. The programs can serve a cheap for the schools in
order to make 3D printers available for using in the classes.
3D printing is the heart of major shift in the particular way in business, educational
institutions as well as individuals (McMenamin et al. 2014). The physical as well as digital
worlds are converging where technology enabling disruption as well as all these things has an
important role in this. Thus, 3D printing is the heart of major shift in the business, educational
institutions as well as individuals. It is required to check up s the statements regarding industrial

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revolution of industry. The Appliance’ rapid prototyping center is one of the examples of it.
Personalization is the hallmarks of 3D printing, which may retailers overlook. In addition, they
use service provider generating a stock without personalization on demand.
(Mikołajewska et al. 2014). It allows the organization showing that the 3D printers can
achieve in education. Thus, specific organizations provide plans to the educational institutions,
teaching kids regarding the process of using them. It is vital as several schools that may not
include staffs with abundant experience in the particular field.
There are several educational organizations. The project is considered as collaborative
design. Here, the students can design the types of projects, guide of teachers through the
particular research (Moon et al., 2014). In addition, the programs provide more certain goal as
well as level of emphasize that daily class does not have.
In prototyping, several programs of universities have turned to printers. In addition, there
are specializations in the process of additive manufacturing, an individual can attain through
important architecture and industrial manufacturing process for industrial design. 3D printing is
used for the process of rapid manufacturing (Choi & Kim, 2015). The prototypes are required for
the user products.
Analysis of business scopes
There are several scopes of using 3D printing technology. In aviation industry, the use of
3D printing technology has several forms. Thus, it is estimated that potential of the printed parts
as well as airplanes are estimated in airplane (Youssef et al., 2015). On the other hand, H2000
utilizes an infinite developed mechanism. Here, 3D printing is helpful for the designers looking
to think again that lightweight aircrafts with achieving better aerodynamics.

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The researchers are working on the particular ways for making the materials accessible.
A concept of turning extra soil into the printable parts is described in the present report. The
printers can lead to decreasing the amount of constructional materials as well as equipments
essential for making a lunar mission (McMenamin et al. 2014). The architects are considered as
the adopters of 3D printing technology. The architects require presenting work like physical
scale model. In addition, 3D printers can assist to reduce manpower as well as time, when it is
visualizing the design for the customers.
The organizations like Steelcase are searching into printing furniture along with the
techniques that assists to develop the technique. The printers can allow the materials to be reused
properly. 3D printers help to develop trinkets as well as tiny add-ons for daily lives. In the field
of jewellery printing, it is one of the best examples lied in it. Printers such as Solidscape S300
are ideal in order to create wax molds as it utilizes generating jewellery (Ventola, 2014). The
medical utilization of 3D printing in involving extreme rapid pace as specialists to begin the use
of 3D printing in advanced ways, However, quality of care by implanting 3D printing are
assisting in orthopaedic surgery.
The 3D printing technology through biotech organizations as well as academia to the
possible utilization of inkjet techniques are also the use of bio printing. In addition, dentists with
3D printed products in rapid pace. It also allows developing the splints. On the other hand,
additive manufacturing can be invaded food industry. The hotels such as Food ink as well as
Melisse utilize the process unique. 3D printing allows the different types of food that helps to
make shape-change and make transparent pasta, which are available at the store. 3D printing is
one of the procedures that makes periphery of using in fashion world. The aspiring designers
having long type in order to leverage its potential use can get potential advantages in business.

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Proposal of how 3D Printing technology can be used in future
Although 3D printing technology is considered as one of new technologies, the
technology can be one of the leading technologies in future. There are some methods to use the
materials in order to extrude the layers (West et al., 2018). Counter crafting is one of the fields
where 3D printing technology can be used. In addition, it is important to focus on the scenario
that can assist the organizations to improve the business process. Selective laser sintering utilizes
high power laser to make fuse of the small practices of plastic, glass powders and ceramic into
mass that includes the powered material. On the other hand, direct metal laser sintering is one of
the procedures that become a support structure for the particular object. It is developed as well as
patented.
Thus, in stereolithography will be one of the major fields for using 3D printing method,
which can be utilized in order to implement the projects. It engages the printing of particular
objects. The concept as well as application of the method is required to involve in the pattern.
The printing techniques need computer-aid design file in order to process the object. The file
includes data regarding the dimensional representation of the object (McMenamin et al. 2014).
CAD file needs to be converted into the particular format by which a printing machine can be
understood. It is considered as Stereolithagraphy Tessellation Language, which is generally used
for the process. In addition, the entire procedure includes consequent printing of the layer by
layer. The printing machine utilization needs the information in each layer (Zhang et al. 2015).
The procedure of printing consists of various steps. It usually starts from creating 3D program.
There are special cases of software procedure of CAD model as well as produces the STL file. It
includes information for every layer included in the process.

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Conclusion
From the above study, it concludes that 3D printing can be useful for the research
purposes. Use of titanium with steel has made it possible to use 3D printing on the metal parts.
The industries with proper assembly are not required in order to make the products for
commercial manufacturing as 3D printing can develop it. Several distinctive products can be
printed utilizing single 3D printer. The 3D printing has enhanced innovation process. In addition,
the printing is repeated, as the design is considered as perfect. The model of 3D printing is fast
and affordable. Education is one of the fields where 3D printing technology can be used, In
addition, 3D printing does not require a complicated program to be installed in the process. The
prototypes are printed as well as receive feedback easily. The cycle of printing is repeated until
the particular design is considered as perfect. Moreover, communication could be enhanced for
3D printing. The activities can be carried out in the classes that become more interactive as well
as simpler way. Finally, the significance of 3D printing is not limited that is mentioned above.
There are still future opportunities that are required to find out.
Recommendations
As additive manufacturing is the combination of cloud computing that is decentralized as
well as geographically independent in the process-distributed production, it is required to focus
on 3D printing technology. Cloud-based additive manufacturing can be referred to service
oriented model. Thus, networked manufacturing model can be helpful for the process. The
organizations have created several services where customers use the software as well as order
resulting the particular items as 3D printed unique objects. It allows the customers creating
custom cases for cell phones. Hence, use of 3D printing need to be more customized in the
organizations. In addition, 3D printing technology can be used in rapid manufacturing process. It

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helps to introduce the materials, which are appropriate for final manufacturing process. Rapid
manufacturing is considered as the new method of manufacturing as well as several procedures
remains as unproven.

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