3D printing began development in the early 1980s and is now used across many industries like construction, aerospace, fashion, and medicine. There are various 3D printing techniques that build objects layer by layer such as selective laser sintering of powdered materials, laser curing of liquid substances, and extruding melted plastic or metal filaments. 3D printing offers advantages for both personal use and businesses by allowing on-demand manufacturing, reduced costs, and more sustainable and localized production. The technology continues to advance with areas of research including bioprinting, nanofabrication, 4D printing of objects that change shape over time, and self-assembly of larger structures from smaller printed components.

1. What is 3D printing
and why is it relevant for your business?
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2. In the beginning…
In the early 80’s scientists began with the development of the
3D printed technology that was mainly applied industrially.

3. Construction Aerospace Food
Fashion Medical Many more…
Now.. used in many different industries.

4. Selective Laser
Sintering (SLS)
Creating a solid structure by
laser some powdered
metal, After each layer is
sintered together, the
structure drops and the next
layer is built on top of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9E5MfBAV_tA
Lasering the surface of a
liquid substance, layer by
layer. When the laser hits
the surface it becomes a
solid material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NM55ct5KwiI
Stereolithography
(SLA)
Printing layer by layer with
melted plastic filament or
metal wire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WHO6G67GJbM
Fused Deposition
Modeling (FDM)
There’s a range of different techniques

5. Anthony Atala,
professor and director
of wake forest institute
for regenerative
medicine, holding a
3D printed kidney
during his TED talk
in 2011.
BIO PRINTING

6. Researchers from the Vienna
University of Technology have
come up with a way to 3D
print very precise on a
nanoscale. This building is 50
nanometer or 1600 times
smaller then a human hair.
NANO PRINTING

7. Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are
creating technologies that could lead to novel health-
care applications, such as new ways of accessing
areas of the human body that would otherwise be
unreachable without invasive surgery.
NANO BOTS

8. Skylar Tibbits is shaping
the next development,
which he calls 4D printing,
where the fourth dimension
is time. This emerging
technology will allow us to
print objects that then
reshape themselves or
self-assemble over time.
4D PRINTING

9. Skylar Tibbits is trying to program water pipes that contract
and relax like muscles. Tibbits’s pipes can expand and shrink in
response to changes in water volume, and could eventually.
The goal is a “self-regulating system,” where pipes could even
repair themselves in case of a puncture.
4D PRINTED WATER PIPES

10. The self-assembly lab from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
researching the 4D printing techniques.
They are testing if they can print self
assembled buildings. That means that we
could print tiny skyscrapers with a 3D
printer that self assemble themselves to
big buildings.
!
What means we could print skyscrapers
and bridges in the future.
SELF-ASSEMBLY

11. 3D PRINTING
CAN CHANGE
YOUR LIFE
• Printing at home
• Fabrication labs instead
of shops
• Growing E-commerce
• Customisable products
• Faster delivery
• Higher Life expectation
• …

12. Formlabs is developing an affordable
high-resolution 3D printer for printing at home

13. Hardware Superstore Home Depot Gets into 3D Printing Act

14. Foodini, a 3D Food Printer

15. A new 3D printed face for cancer victim, Eric Moger

16. 3D PRINTING
CAN CHANGE
YOUR BUSINESS
• Shortening process
• Reduce production costs
• Parts on demand
• lower logistics costs
• Easily replaceable parts
• Less assembly, energy,
waste, storage and
transport

17. A Shanghai based company called WinSun
3D-Prints ten houses in a single day

18. Urbee is a crowd-funded project with the goal to create the greenest car on Earth.
The 3D-printed body was revealed at TEDxWinnipeg in 2011.

19. Fabrication labs are the factories of the future,
the community is growing faster and faster

20. 3D PRINTING
CAN CHANGE
YOUR WORLD
• Everything goes faster
• Visual changes
• Transport will reduce
• Ecological produce
• Developing countries
gain new opportunities
• …

21. Developing countries gain new opportunities. NOT impossible,
3D-printed prostheses give hope to amputees in war-torn Sudan

22. Ekocycle cube by Will.i.am + coca-cola 3D prints
using recycled plastic bottles

23. Lux research forecasting 3D Printed part
market grows to $8,4 Billion in 2025

24. Old world vs. New world
A lot of waste
Global economy
Monopoly production
Stock production
IP protected
Sweatshops
Environmentally friendlier
Local economy
Democratization production
Ad hoc production
Easy reproduction
Home printing

25. How will you implement 3D printing
in your business?

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