How Additive Manufacturing can Impact Companies

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1 How Additive Manufacturing can Impact Companies Iowa State University 2017 Iowa State University, All Rights Reserved

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6 What is Additive Manufacturing?

7 What is Additive Manufacturing? Additive Manufacturing (AM) Categories AM - Plastics AM - Metal Other Powder Bed Powder Feed Wire Extrusion

8 Why is it Important? If you re not using it, your competition is. Rapid Growth in: - Number of smaller systems (<$5k) - Forecasts of industry value 2013 vs Forbes 2015

9 PwC 2014 What is it being used for?

10 Issues to implementation Biggest challenges to companies: Equipment costs Do not forget support equipment needs Limited materials available Post-processing requirements Manufacturing costs Lack of in-house additive manufacturing resources Lack of expertise and/or training among workforce/employees Stratasys 2015 n=700

11 AM Technologies Binder jetting Directed energy deposition Material extrusion Material jetting Powder bed fusion Sheet lamination Vat photopolymerization

12 Binder Jetting

13 Material Extrusion

14 Powder Bed Fusion

15 CIRAS Metal AM: Leading Iowa Forward Build Awareness Educational events Public & private Statewide Cooperative Learning Pilot using company designs Support company R&D Shared research Develop the next generation Student class projects Class & club access

16 Metal AM Benefits Product Design Freedom of design (1a 2) Reduced tolerance Reduced assembly costs Reduce time to market Variant options Supply Chain Shorter supply chain Combining parts: Reduced supplier count Business Rapid response to market demands (i.e. service) Specialized products Process Reduced/eliminate tooling capital Minimize material and energy usage 1a 2 1b

17 Metal AM: Freedom of Design Advantages: - Less Material - Faster to process - Same functional strength

18 Metal AM: Company Parts R&D

19 Metal AM: Company Parts - Process Dispensing Head Location Fixture

20 Metal AM: Plastic Tooling Focus on making the things that make the things. Note the conformal cooling lines.

21 Metal AM: Plastic Tooling Core and Cavity set with sample of the part.

22 Metal AM: Plastic Tooling

23 Metal AM: Plastic Tooling Note: - Modular concept - Split cavity due to size

24 AM Marketing/Sales Advantages Why come to us? OR Why buy from us? Speed Time to idea creation months/weeks to days/hours Mass Customization Let the customer define the needs change in cost structures Micro market solutions possible Increased Customer Interaction Hook them early Help develop the solution Fail fast fail early De-risk the program by getting data on the unknowns Quality - Get it Right the First Time Less material in queues - Virtual warehouse Greater Control of Production Processes Support - Cradle to Grave Support from idea creation to service parts

25 AM Impact on the Supply Chain

26 AM Impact on the Supply Chain 3D-printed phone cases, mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has also embraced the technology and in January made available a 3D printing kit so its customers could print out customized covers for the Lumia 820. The kit is part of the Nokia 3D Printing Community Project, what Nokia Community & Developer Marketing Manager John Kneeland described on the Nokia blog as the "spiritual successor to the great granddaddy of customizable phones, the Nokia 5110 and its rainbow collection of removable faceplates."

27 Do you believe it will be common to see 3D printers in homes? Do you remember a famous 1977 prediction of Ken Olsen (Founder, Chairman, and President of Digital Equipment Corp) made regarding computers?

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29 What is this?

30 What could your Supply Chain Look Like? Material Castings WIP Machine Assemble Material Machine Finished

31 3D Printing: Closing Thoughts It s a complex and ever evolving tool look at partnering If you re not looking at it, your competition is It WILL/IS be a tool used by large and small Manufacturers Complexity is free Freedom of Design Design for the process to capture its potential Allows you to use iterative cycles Fail fast, fail early Mass customization Can change the manufacturing cost structures Many educational institutions have or are obtaining the technology

32 Questions? Chris Hill Director TAP