3. Johaness Gutenberg
Inventor of moveable printing press
"What the world is today, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg.
Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to bring him
homage,
... for the bad that his colossal invention has brought about
is overshadowed a thousand times by the good with which
mankind has been favored."
American writer Mark Twain
THE PRINTING REVOLUTION
DIGITAL PRINTING
7. RAPID PROTOTYPING
BIRTH-1980
WYSIWYG MODEL
NEXT LEVEL TECHNOLOGY
3D Printing is at the forefront of the coming revolution in manufacturing brought
about by Rapid Prototyping.
8. THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING MAKES IT AS
CHEAP TO CREATE SINGLE ITEMS AS IT IS TO
PRODUCE THOUSANDS AND THUS UNDERMINES
ECONOMIES OF SCALE.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORESEE THE LONG TERM
IMPACT OF 3D PRINTING,BUT THE TECHNOLOGY IS
COMING , & IT IS LIKELY TO DISRUPT EVERY FIELD
IT TOUCHES.
THE ECONOMIST,10FEB 2011
9. 3D REACH
UBIQUITY OF MACHINES
EFFECT ON MANKIND
EFFECT ON BUSINESS
PARTS FOR MACHINE PARTS FOR
PEOPLE
10. 3D LIMITATIONS
IT’S NOT A SILVER BULLET
HOW TO MANAGE LOAD
BEARING,TEMPERATURE,PRESSURE?
WHAT IF MATERIAL IS EXOTIC?
PLASTIC MIGHT WORK TEMPORARY,OR NOT
A PRINTER WITH MULTIPLE HEADS,DESIGNED TO PRINT
WITH MULTIPLE MATERIALS SIMULTANEOUSLY, IS THE
ANSWER.