3D Printing

Jurgen Laudus, Materialise

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3D Printing: hype or trend?

Launch of the first fully

functional elastic material in

3D Printing - TPU 92A

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Design by Iris van Herpen and Julia

Koerner, Voltage Show, Paris,

January 2013

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About Materialise

One machine and a belief

in the incredible potential of 3D Printing

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• Started in 1990

• Technology company

• Leaders in the field of 3D printing

• HQ in Belgium, offices all over the world

• Worldwide more then 1000 employees

• 3D Printed parts, software and engineering

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About Materialise

What is 3D Printing?

The construction of parts layer-by-layer

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What is 3D Printing?

Different production processes, all 3D Printing

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NextDay

PolyJet

Stereoli-

thography

Z Corp Laser

sintering

FDM Mammoth

stereoli-

thography

24h 2-4 days 2-5 days 3 days 2-5 days 2-5 days 4-8 days

Why 3D Printing?

Design engineers

create better products

when they have access to design verification that truly matches reality

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Rapid Prototyping

Housings for Nikon Metrology Scanners

Concept_One Samsonite S’Cure Design verification that matches reality

Concept_One Samsonite S’Cure Design verification that matches reality

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VW Golf dashboard Design verification that matches reality

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VW Golf dashboard Design verification that matches reality

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VW Golf dashboard Design verification that matches reality

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Concept_One Europem Scale Model Data Optimization for 3D Printing

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Concept_One Europem Scale Model Data Optimization for 3D Printing

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3D Printing of end-use parts

Design engineers

create better products

when they leave the limitations of conventional manufacturing technologies behind.

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3D Printing of end-use parts

Making small series possible

3D Printing for end-use parts

An incredible freedom of design

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Includes 37 integrated hinges

Concept_One Pinovo Body parts for vacuum blaster

Body parts for vacuum blaster

Product

Dedicated tools for corrosion

treatment in oil and gas industry

Goal

Ergonomics, low weight

No plant shut-down

Quick response to requests

Body parts for vacuum blaster

Body parts for vacuum blaster

Body parts for vacuum blaster

Drivers for 3D printing

• Shorten development time

• Flexible way of introducing new applications

• Impossible to mould

Everybody a designer

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Consumer market

Everybody an entrepeneur

A new industrial revolution?

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Image courtesy of Phonak

Hearing aids

Taking the

impression

3D Printing of

the hearing aid

Quality Control &

assembly

Scanning of the

impression

Software to design

the hearing aid

Hearing Aids

• Digital manufacturing of shells to nearly 100% in 2

years

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3D Printing for a healthier world

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Surgicase Orthopeadics: A total solution for the orthopeadic surgeon through 3D Printing

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A total solution for the orthopeadic surgeon through 3D Printing

3D Printing for a healthier world

3D Printing for a healthier world

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A total solution for the orthopeadic surgeon

through additive manufacturing

Surgical guides are produced using Laser Sintering

3D Printed Insoles by RS Print

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The Marble Model

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Thank you!

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