Category: 3D printing

Interview With Greg Haye of Local Motors About Co-Creation and 3D Printing

Local Motors came into existence in 2007 using a crowdsourcing design to develop cars. The bold approach led them to become a nexus for the engineers, designers, and gear heads. The Local Motors team have designed the Strati, Olli, and Swim which all uses the 3D printing technology in their designs. The Strati has a winning design entry design among the 200 received from 30+ countries around the world.

The Large Scale Polymer Composite Additive Manufacturing process is unique as they use recyclable materials that consume low amounts of energy to the built mass structure. It has a vast capacity in manufacturing vehicles, ships, aircraft, architectural building components, and molds. Using the large scale additive processes applied to drastically minimize the cost and footprint required for the manufacturing process.

For certain companies, their infrastructure can be a barrier for utilizing innovative creation. It requires an internal organization to create a platform and facilitate the ideas.

They always worked with multiple companions to find out solutions for specific issues by designing new products through Launch Forth challenges. They also worked with the US Marine Corps to develop modular logistics vehicles that contribute to unmanned cargo delivery system to advance the well-being of servicemen and women. The co-creation and crowdsourcing will bring a breakthrough to the market community of over 200,000 innovators around the globe.

ON-DEMAND MANUFACTURING LEVERAGES HP’S LATEST PRINTER

What are the highlights

HP accelerates the digital transformation of manufacturing with high volume 3D products and applications. More than three million multi-jet fusion parts were produced last year alone. This is a significant breakthrough which digitally reinvents HP’s product life cycle effectively. In this manner, HP has reinvented multi-jet fusion program which paves the way to new clients. They have also reinvented Forecast 3D, GoPro, Stern and other features to meet current demands.

why it is important in todays world

This is essential for today’s world as it showcases large-scale customer deployments which reinvent multi-function program which accelerates products to full-scale 3D products. This, in turn, helps both clients and manufacturers to complete the full-scale 3D production. It helps them adapt to new technologies, provide optimum support and reinvent its products effectively. This has paved the way for HP to deliver unprecedented capabilities and economic advantages which help them distribute products worldwide. In today’s world, several printer manufacturers have adorned 3D printing and are coming up with new devices which are tailored for a wide range of applications. So HP has taken it up a notch by introducing the reinvented multi-jet fusion program.

What are its future promises

On-demand manufacturing leverages change the way how manufacturers view 3D printing which thereby increases 3D production. This paves the way to a digital future where customers can perform printing effortlessly and get support with just the press of a button. This is a popular service which increases sustainability across business and enhances the product life cycle as well.