3d printing to shorten the new product development cycle

On 23 may, at chongqing international exhibition centre, a fully automated, more energy-efficient aggregator site was made for free collection by visitors. Reporter zhang jinhui

This newspaper (journalist guo xiao jing) is one floor, one floor, one floor, one floor, just like building bricks. On may 23rd, at the licca international mechanical fair, a number of exhibitors brought their own producers or agents3d printingThe machine. At the same time, the “3d print technology presentation workshop” was held at the mechanical showground, and the “3d printing” became the hottest word on the whole site。

Ten thousand dollars for a portable 3d printer

At the beijing times science and technology ltd exhibition, journalists saw a portable 3d printer in operation, a presentation by the staff of the show, which was printing the same “heads of horses” of two large and small sizes, printed in a volume of abs plastic。

This portable 3d printer, although “unusual” in the country, has entered common homes in places such as north america and australia, and is used by a number of cartoon lovers to create their own design animation images。

This “chinese-made” portable 3d printer is known to produce around 10,000 printers per year, 80 per cent of which are exported, with a foreign sale price of $1499, a domestic sale price of $999 and a volume of abs plastics for printing at around $300. “as technology matures and costs decline, 3d printing will no longer be high and can be consumed by many ordinary households.”

3d printing to shorten the new product development cycle

“an old man abroad has a serious heart condition, and the specialists have repaired his heart using 3d printing techniques using materials with stem cells of the elderly, who are still alive.” at the 3d print technology presentation seminar, liu yusheng, minister of markets at the national engineering research centre, gave a story to the guests, which made them surprising。

While abroad, 3d printing technologies have long been applied in a number of fields, such as medicine, in our country the combination of 3d printing and casting technologies has been most applied in industrial new product development, with wide prospects。

“it took at least several months to develop a new component, from drawings to objects, and now only three days.” liu yusheng stated that it would take two days to model the parts on the computer, then print them out with plastic materials and then model them with printed parts. In other words, the third day is now ready for the real product。