{"id":76940,"date":"2016-11-20T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=76940"},"modified":"2016-11-20T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T06:01:20","slug":"tomorrow-is-good-daan-kersten-the-breakthrough-of-3d-mass-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/tomorrow-is-good-daan-kersten-the-breakthrough-of-3d-mass-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"[TOMORROW IS GOOD] Daan Kersten: The Breakthrough of 3D Series Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is good.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors<\/a> are \u2013 in addition to their \u2018normal\u2019 groundbreaking work \u2013 linked to theSingularityU The\u00a0Netherlands<\/a>, the organization that focuses on spreading knowledge about technologies that can provide solutions to the problems of our time. This Sunday, it\u2019s Daan Kersten\u2018s turn.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Daan Kersten<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SU<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow will be better. It can hardly be, I think as I write this. With our 3D metal printing company, we present our machine at the world’s largest 3D printing trade fair in Frankfurt this week, where the interest is overwhelming. In addition, we won a prestigious IDTechEx award<\/a>\u00a0for the same machine on the other side of the world last night. Can it get any\u00a0better? Perhaps it can, because when you read this, the fair ended and my mouth and feet get some rest again…<\/p>\n

If one thing has become clear this week, it is the breakthrough of\u00a03D printing as manufacturing technology for series\u00a0production. It began with the recent attempt by GE to incorporate SLM Solutions and Arcam. A shareholder of SLM Solutions prevented this because he thought the GE bid, approximately 10x its\u00a0turnover (!), was too low. In the same week GE decided to spend the 1.4 billion that burned in their pockets on\u00a0competitor Concept Laser. Along with Arcam, GE has thus secured the supply of the 1,000 3D metal printing systems it needs in the coming years for a wide range of products for various applications in energy, aircraft engines and more.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/x559uG4LXtY<\/p>\n

2D printing powerhouse HP launched its latest Multi Jet Fusion 3D plastic printer on the European market – with an Eindhoven flavour to it because Shapeways is a test customer. They expect this to open up a new market, for instance personalised medical devices. German EOS showed its solution for the establishment of fully automated production; it was still a prototype but it clearly shows that the market is moving from prototyping to serial production.<\/p>\n

Not only the production becomes more integrated, the software chain also seems to be threading the islands together. Up to now you needed a number of different software tools to design, optimise and simulate a digital product in 3D, and to cut it in layers. But now in Frankfurt Siemens shows us\u00a0that every functionality can be combined into one package, so that the engineer of the future can press the print button of his\u00a03D CAD software, much like it’s already normal in\u00a0the Microsoft Office products in 2D. That’s a major step forward in ease of use and it lowers the threshold to apply 3D printing in industrial production.<\/p>\n

Actually, this also gives a direct answer to the question I previously asked: “Can it be better?”. Yes, not only for our company that wants to play a leading role in the industrialisation of 3D printing, but also for the whole Western industry that will enable the\u00a0manufacturing of 3D printed\u00a0products locally, and on demand. Products are better, lighter, cheaper and more personalised and we are all going to benefit. And the environment is spared through more digital and less physical transport.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow will\u00a0still be better. Fortunately!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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