Presentations from R3D@Tri-C, the Regional 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Conference, held on June 18 and 19, 2015, at Tri-C’s Advanced Technology Training Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

1. Rapid Show Recap 2015
Dave Pierson
MAGNET

2. Rapid show 2015
• 25th year….
• Growing, like crazy….!
• 38% increase in attendance
• 51% increase in exhibitors..
• Long Beach convention center.

3. KeynoteTuesday : Jason Dunn, Bringing
Additive Manufacturing to Space

4. KeynoteWednesday: BillWarren PhD
• 3d Bio Printing a NewYou: Science Fiction or somewhere in between……
• Able to print on moving tissue, active lung.
• Printing InVitro, or In the body..
• Developing new technology to print inVitro, on moving tissue..
• Print head is actually inside the body….

5. KeynoteThursday:TerryWohlers
Additive Manufacturing State of the Industry
• Additive Manufacturing--- Finally getting the Attention, Respect +
investment that it deserves…
• Recent growth trends, Metal production parts, in aerospace..
• Airbus-120 AM projects currently underway.
• 35 people working in the AM group, 20 1 year ago.
• Airbus, 30Tons ofAM parts/Month by 2018…..!
• Between 45,000, and 60,000 parts are flying on Airbus aircraft.

6. Numbers-Highlights
• Terry Wohlers keynote highlights…
• GROWTH……. 92.5% growth over 2014
• Quadruple in 5 years to 21.2Billion by 2020….!
• Desktop printers largest growth segment.
• Custom Customer…….
• New Additive Manufacturing file types AMF..
• Technology driven from the bottom up …

7. Awards
• RAPID Innovation award, Afinia H800 3D printer

8. Categories……..
•Best price to accuracy printer
• Formlabs 1+
• 300 microns .012”
• 1,2,4,8 thousandths resolution
• $3299 complete package

9. Formlabs 1+

10. HP teasing us…..
• No Pricing yet……
• No firm delivery dates yet……..
• New technology, that they areVery vague about……..
• Multi-Jet-Fusion
• Nylon Powder
• 30 million droplets per second across a 25mm width..!

11. HP Multi Jet Fusion
technology Details

12. HP Parts/booth

13. HP video

14. Impossible Objects
• Carbon fiber
• Kevlar and Fiberglass

15. Impossible Objects video

16. Applications…
Formula1
Brake pedal
• Formula1 brake pedal….

17. F1 Brake pedal/cylinder
head

18. Aerospace / Formula1 hardware
• Bolts

19. Applications
• Normal earphones, one size fits none…..
• Production completely reliant onAM technology

20. Applications
• #Cast Pronounced “Hash Cast”

21. Art……..

22. Art..!

23. More Art….!

27. Printed wardrobe

28. Wardrobe

29. Wardrobe

30. More Dress pictures

31. Maker Space FDM
• Explosive growth..
• 10 new printers at the show.
• All high performance
• Fiercely competitive market has driven prices down and performance up…!
• Multiple material suppliers, rubber like material in a FDM…

32. Hybrid Manufacturing
• Major players are
DMG Mori
• Fabrisonic.

33. DMG-MoriVideo
• https://youtu.be/Fr_PneeyO34

34. Conclusions…….
• This sector (AM) is growing at an astounding rate…
• Applications ofAM are being developed so fast..
• Materials are evolving, and evolving…! FDM, PBF,
• Businesses being developed that depend entirely onAM processes….
• Scanning systems evolving to the point where they are phone based.
• Big….. 3 manufactures with HUGE build volumes……

35. Thank you very much for your attention..!
Muchas gracias por su atención
Grazie per la vostra attenzione
Vielen Dank für eure Aufmerksamkeit
Questions?
Dave.pierson@magnetwork.org
216-391-7042