The document discusses how digital manufacturing is driving the third industrial revolution. Key points include:
- New 3D printers are lowering costs and enabling same-day production of custom plastic and metal parts. This will allow consumers to get what they want.
- 3D scanning technologies can engage more people in the creation process by making it easy to scan objects using smartphones. Over a billion people may have scanning capabilities.
- Customization engines allow anyone to customize existing 3D printed product designs in real-time, fueling a transition from e-commerce to "creative commerce".
- The future may include 4D printing that allows objects to self-assemble and "digital materials" with properties beyond traditional materials. This revolution will
Digital Manufacturing and The Next Industrial Revolution
1. Redefining Product Creation
Digital Manufacturing –
The next Industrial Revolution
Peter Weijmarshausen
Co-Founder & CEO of Shapeways.
Twitter @weijmarshausen
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Globalization
• By 2025, 45% of Fortune 500 will be HQ in emerging markets.
• Different location, different culture, different preference driving customization.
19. New printers will give consumers what they want
• HP -- Full color plastic something
consumers want
• Desktop Metal lowering cost for
metal
• Carbon / Formlabs lowering cost
for high detail plastic
10x faster
than any
other 3D
printer
Reduces
cost by 50%
Full color
Enables
same day
turnaround
Higher
margins &
lower end
prices
More
creativity
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21. 3D Scanning opens up the creation pipeline
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• Highly engaging crowd-starter
• Very easy to understand
• Imagine 1 billion people with
3D scanners in their pockets
(next gen phones will support
this!)
• Our tests with scanning at SxSW
and the Museum of Art & Design
were a huge success – scanned
20,000 people
• Both mobile and scanning booth
solutions working and rolling out
First killer app of 3D printing for consumers
3D scanning at events and museums
Super Model Karlie Kloss getting
scanned and 3D printed
22. CustomMaker enables real-time customization
Shapeways’ proprietary real-time customization engine
Enables anyone to
easily customize
existing products
Open to all
Shapeways
designers & shops,
using JavaScript
Generates 100%
printable content
Thousands of
community-driven
custom products on
site
From e-commerce to
creative commerce
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First industrial revolution going from manual to steam power
Second industrial revolution going to electrical power and the assembly line
3D printing is moving manufacturing from analogue to digital changing all we know about manufacturing today
Who is in control changes
Where we make it
Time to market
What we make
No longer companies but individuals are in charge
No longer what’s available in stores, but anything you want
No longer centralized, but everywhere
Bringing products to markets in days not in months or years
Urbanization
8 billion people, 5 billion live in cities
1990 10 cities with 10 million inhabitants, 2030 40+
Increased need for resources, reduce waste
Globalization
By 2025 45% of Fortune 500 will be HQ in emerging markets
Different location, different culture, different preference driving customization
Technology disruption
Immersive technologies (AR / VR), IoT
Every 10 years processing power / $ increases 1000
Driving further digitization
3D printing is slow, limited in materials, too expensive. Not much has changed
People want immediate, high quality products for reasonable prices
Focus on technology, business, not on consumer needs
Raise of the Home printer
We’ve worked tremendously hard to get to this point, and I’ve never been more excited about our business, because what’s coming next is going to change everything.
Since the beginning of Shapeways, we always knew that the printers were going to get faster and cheaper, but it’s taken longer than we expected. Price is still one of the biggest barriers for successful products on Shapeways. This past year, HP announced their entrance into the market. Shapeways will be one of the very first customers. I have seen the machine with my own eyes and know what it is capable of, and our community is going to go nuts. It will allow us to offer higher quality, full-color products at much better prices.
The killer app for consumer 3D printing
Better customization tools
More and better materials. Full color plastic and ceramic.
DMLS for precious metals at consumer product prices
The killer app for consumer 3D printing
Better customization tools
More and better materials. Full color plastic and ceramic.
DMLS for precious metals at consumer product prices
1) Experiencing content will be easier. Think looking into a AR mirror and seeing the new jewelry on you. Looking through your iPad and seeing the new vase in your home.
2) Creating content will become easier as our user interface improves. From mouse+screen to immersive creation
3) As the boundaries between physical and real world fade we will be pulled into the digital world (VR) more (as humans) and as a result we might feel a bigger need to bring things from the digital world into the real world.
Think of Augmented and Virtual Reality as making it much easier to create, interact with and customize 3D models. On the demand side, we've been held hostage by interfaces that force you to use a keyboard and mouse to engage. AR/VR transcends that gaps and promises to enable you interact directly with 3D models in a far more natural way. On the supply side, the same advances can help in everything from checking and fixing to allocation and sorting. Pieter has been maintaining relationships with promising folks on this front and may have better stats. (In fact, this year at TechStars, I'm mentoring IrisVR a startup building software for 3D designers (primarily architects and interior designers to start) to design and showcase their designs using VR starting with Oculus.)
Talking points: Samsung, HTC and Microsoft are looking into the hollow lens. Magic Leap and Oculus Rift.