1 STRATASYS / THE 3D PRINTING SOLUTIONS COMPANY
PHOENIX ANALYSIS & DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES
We Make Innovation Work
Additive Manufacturing Strategy
and Digital Transformation
Rey Chu
September 26, 2018
AZ VFS
We Make Innovation Workwww.padtinc.com
PADT, Inc. We Make Innovation Work• Founded in 1994 by four engineers
• Headquarter in Tempe, AZ
• Offices in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,
and Texas
• Facilities - 24,000 SF office and lab space
• R&D Labs with over $2M in equipment
• Engineering lab, Prototyping shop, Manufacturing
space, inspection and inventory
• ~ 95 Employees
We Make Innovation Workwww.padtinc.com
PADT Businesses
Engineering Tools Resale and Support
Software: ANSYS, FLOWNEX, GeoMagics, NIMBIX
Hardware: Stratasys, Desktop Metal, ZEISS, CUBE
Engineering Services
Simulation consulting
Product development
R&D: SBIR (13 awards since 1999)
Manufacturing Technologies
3DP/AM services: SLA, SLS, FDM, PolyJet, DLS, DMLS
3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering
3D Printing post processing products
Additive Manufacturing R&D: SBIR and America Makes
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Manufacturing in the Digital World
• Companies in every vertical are driving digital transformation. How does your company compare?
• Heightened customer expectations, new digital realities, more disruptive competitors and new models and ecosystems are upon us. Manufacturers must transform their execution and go-to-market models to succeed in the new digital world.
• But how do they fare?
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Technologies Transforming Industrial Production
Robotics
VR
&
AR
Big Data
AnalyticsSimulation
IIOT
Cyber
Security
AI &
Machine
Learning
System
Integration
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Disrupting Industries with Additive TechnologyIndustry 4.0 is upon us:‒ Additive Technology and 3D Printing is enabling a revolutionary transformation in how we work, live
and interact with each other
‒ This revolution has the potential to disrupt and reinvent virtually every aspect of the $12 trillion
manufacturing industry
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3DP & AM Innovations Touching Our Lives• From military, defense, space, aerospace, automobile to sports
equipment, toys, fashion and jewelry. From heavy machinery, consumer
electronics to personalized medicine, custom medical implants and
manufacturing tools and molds.
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Benefits of Adopting Additive Manufacturing
PRODUCTION BENEFITS
• Less materials
• Lower tooling costs
• Shorter lead time
• Simpler assembly
• Automation
LIFETIME BENEFITS
• Less weight
• Faster product launch
• Higher product reliability
• Higher performance
• Better adaptation
• Product attraction
• Reduced inventory
• Higher responsiveness
Rapid Prototyping & Tooling
Direct Part Replacement
Part Consolidation
DfAM Optimized
Low volume parts made direct from CAD
Re-production parts that eliminate tooling or simplify process
Complex parts that simplify assembly and enhance reliability
New product designs - Deliver lifetime benefits in use, mass customization
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Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) – Process
Images source: Carbon 3D
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Carbon DLS Technology – Connectivity Digital Manufacturing
Images source: Carbon 3D
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Carbon DLS Technology – Adidas Futurecraft 4D
• Carbon and Adidas have pushed the performance function of footwear to a new level with the launch of Futurecraft 4D. The newly launched shoe has precisely digitally tuned functional zones within the midsole. Notice how the midsole has different lattice structures in the heel and forefoot, to account for different cushioning needs for these parts of the foot while running.
Images source, Carbon 3D
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HP Multi Jet Fusion – Printing Process
HP Technical White Paper: HP Multi Jet fusion Technology
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Laser Powder Bed Fusion –(LaserCUSING, DMLS, SLM, DMP)
• In a typical LPBF process, a laser beam scans across a thin layer of metallic powders, and locally
melts the powders through to the layer below. There are many highly dynamic and transient
physical phenomena involved in the process because of the extremely high heating and cooling
rates e.g. melting and partial vaporization of metallic powders, flow of the molten metal, powder
ejection and re-distribution, rapid solidification, non-equilibrium phase transition, etc.
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GE Additive LaserCUSING – Meltpool Monitoring
QM Meltpool 3D – Camera and Photodiode
Camera Photodiode
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QM Meltpool 3D – Visualization
Data acquisition and correlation 3D visualization
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GE Additive LaserCUSING – Meltpool Monitoring
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3D Systems Figure 4 – Automated Connected
Smart Devices• Modular, scalable, fully-integrated direct 3D production platform, completely
customizable and scalable
• Completely automated, with integrated post-processing. Automated material
delivery and integrated post-processing reduce labor requirements - increasing
productivity and lowering total cost of operation.
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Design for AM Evolution – Distribution Manifold (GE)
Technology adoption roadmap and strategy is important‒ Sensors, embedded sensors
‒ Smart materials
‒ Processes, manipulation of atomic level
‒ Control, microstructure properties
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Manufacturing in the Digital Age –Additive Manufacturing is a Key Enabling Technology
Enable and Empower through
Customization
Invention & Production
Collaboration
Digital Manufacturing
Leveraging Digital
Intelligence
Production with Decreased
Transport
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