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3D printing is one such technology that most businesses are inclined to take advantage of. 3D printing in Melbourne isn’t just about fashion accessories, life-size replicas and weapons. The use of a range of energy sources and technologies for fusing metal and plastic feedstock is one of the capabilities of printers. There is a wide variety of 3D printing technologies that can be benefited from in the current manufacturing scenario. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Evolution of 3D Printing in Australia


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Evolution of 3D Printing in Australia
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Introduction
  • With a rapidly changing manufacturing
    environment, businesses are now increasingly
    eager to invest in technological advancements
    that could put them a step higher than their
    competitors.
  • 3D printing is one such technology that most
    businesses are inclined to take advantage of. 3D
    printing in Melbourne isnt just about fashion
    accessories, life-size replicas and weapons.
  • From design to finishing phase, this technology
    can speed up the process and reduce costs of
    manufacturing drastically.

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Major advantage of 3D printing
  • Since it is an additive technology, there is
    significant saving in costs when 3D printing is
    used.
  • This is because there is usage of lower amounts
    of material as compared to traditional methods of
    manufacturing.
  • Cutting away from a solid block increases costs
    as material has to be removed for detailing.
  • Maximum of machines printing in metal can recycle
    the unused powder, which is the ink used in 3D
    printing. This is another advantage.
  • There is a wide variety of 3D printing
    technologies that can be benefited from in the
    current manufacturing scenario.

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Major advantage of 3D printing
  • The use of a range of energy sources and
    technologies for fusing metal and plastic
    feedstock is one of the capabilities of printers.
  • Plastic printers come in a variety of shapes.
    They can be personal units that retail for
    thousands of dollars, or complex manufacturing
    units that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Designing Phase
  • The time spent by a product in designing phase
    heavily impacts the time to market.
  • 3D printing has reduced the time for development
    by a whopping 96. With the help of 3D printing,
    manufacturers can explore multiple iterations of
    product design variations during conceptual
    stages of design phase, without the need to
    invest in the tools required to make the product.
  • This has been especially beneficial for car
    manufacturers, who use 3D printed mock-ups of the
    required parts, such as front end fascias and
    rear view mirrors.
  • 3D printing design files can be digitally shared
    with manufacturers by a process called 3D-faxing.

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Designing Phase
  • This process can potentially reduce shipping
    costs and time significantly. Products can be
    created at digital facilities as per requirement,
    eliminating customs duties and inspections and
    also reducing transport costs.
  • 3D printing can be used extensively to
    manufacture fixtures, jigs, shop tools and gauges
    inexpensively as well as quickly.
  • These tools are made so as to help assemble more
    complex parts that can be expensive if
    manufactured traditionally. 3D printers can save
    about 90 on the fabrication of fixtures.
  • An instance of specialized use of 3D printing can
    be seen in the medicine industry, where surgeons
    use this technology to create mock-ups of complex
    surgeries, a technique that allows them to
    practice a surgery before undertaking it. For
    example, they can use it to install crews or pins
    with extreme precision.

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3D Printing in Australia
  • Objective 3D got introduced in Melbourne with 3D
    printing technology primarily being used for
    manufacturing parts for industries such as
    defense, mining, automotive, biomedical and
    construction.
  • The technique, also called as additive
    manufacturing can be used to produce products of
    high value for niche markets directly from the
    printer.
  • This gives regional and rural areas, which have
    manufacturing hubs already in place, competitive
    advantage over others.
  • 3D printing is a fantastic resource for
    manufacturing locally and providing parts
    extremely quickly.

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3D Printing in Australia
  • Objective 3D consists of 15 high tech 3D
    printers, all of which individually use
    electricity comparable to that of a household
    refrigerator.
  • Also, costs of the printers have dropped
    drastically, cheap 3D printers available for as
    little as 2500.
  • 3D printing can be used to manufacture products
    that belong to a huge spectrum of industries.
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