3. Introduction
● 3D printer a type of industrial robot
● used to synthesize a three-dimensional object
● objects can be of almost any shape or geometry
● Getting more and more popular
● Many companies provide the 3D printing service for customers
(eg. Designing, Printing and Original Equipment Manufacturing)
5. Background Information
A New printing method
●CLIP technology
up to 100 times faster than existing 3-D printers
new way of 3-D manufacturing introduced by a company called Carbon3D
using a broad range of materials
the shapes of the objects are more complex
8. Applications
From the medical aspects
printing blood vessels & heart issue
printing skin
patching a broken heart
printing cartilage & bone
Studying cancer with printed cells
printing human embryonic stem cells
From the fashion aspects
printing clothing
From the music aspects
printing guitar
For the superior goods
printing cars
printing jewellery
For the food
printing chocolate
9. The cost using 3D printer
For home use
● Less than US$500
Commercial and Industrial use
● Around US$10000-20000
● Some even cost US$50000
10. The materials for making products
● Metals
(1)steel
(2)titanium
(3)Gold
● Plastic
● Glass
● Nylon
● Ceramic
11. The advantage of using 3D printing
● increase innovation
● improve communication
● speed time in market
● reduce developmental cost
● better design for the product
● tailor-made for customers
12. The disadvantages of using 3D printer
● the size of the product is usually small
● limited options for choosing materials
● may lead to unemployment
● more technical jobs are needed
13. Online survey
● Target: general public
● Information: Opinions on 3D printers
● Site of survey:
http://goo.gl/forms/vBExAoHeb9
16. Survey Analysis
Yes, 22
No, 5
DO YOU KNOW ANY ABOUT 3D PRINTER?
From the data, we see that only 5 of them do not know any about 3D printer, and other 22 people
know it. We can see that 3D printer is known by many people. More and more industries and
households may use 3D printer for production or self-consumption.
17. Survey Analysis
From the people who know 3D printer, most of them know it through newspaper and the
second option is Internet. And the least common ways to know 3D printer is reading books and
others, no one choose this two options.
37%
12%
36%
6% 9%
0% 0%
How do you know 3D printer?
TV programmes Newspaper Internet
Magazines Social Networking Sites Books
Others
18. Survey Analysis
For the people who know 3D printer, only 2 of them think that 3D printer will not popular in
the future. For the people who do not know 3D printer, all of them think 3D printer will
popular in the future.
0 5 10 15 20 25
Yes
No
Do you think 3D printers will become
popular in the future? (For people who know
3D printer)
Yes
100%
No
0%
Do you think 3D printer will become popular in the
future?(For people who do not know 3D printer)
19. Survey Analysis
Most of them are not interested in buying 3D printer, the reason that they do not want
to buy is the choice of materials is limited and the size of machine is large. This two
choices have nearly 70% of respondents agree. And there are only a few people who
choose the dimensions of the product may not be accurate, most of them disagree
with this choice
80%
20%
Are you interested in buying a 3D printer?(For
people who do not know 3D printer)
No Yes
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
The choice of
materials is limited
The product size
is limited
The dimensions of
the product may
not be accurate
The size of
machine is large
What is the reason for not buying a 3D printer?
Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
20. Survey Analysis
Most of the respondents think 3D printers are not quite important to their life
since many of them choose 3 or 4 when we asked for the importance of 3D
printer to your life.
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
How important is 3D printer to your dailylife?
(1-most important 5-least important)
21. Conclusion
●With the technology advancement, printer is not only use
for printing the documents, we can even print 3D objects
●Through the Internet and TV programme, more people
know what is 3D printing
●When the time passes, a company has already introduced
a new technology for 3D printing which makes the speed
of printing faster
22. Job distribution list
Mind map
• Hung Suet Ying
• Ng Sin Nga
Data Collection
• Hung Suet Ying
• Ng Sin Nga
Survey
• Hung Suet Ying
• Ng Sin Nga
Survey Analysis
• Hung Suet Ying
• Ng Sin Nga
23. References
●1.Rising from the ooze, available at The
Economistshttp://www.economist.com/news/science-and-
technology/21646537-quicker-way-print-objects-rising-ooze
●2.Advantage and disadvantage of 3D printing technology(argumentative,
research essay), available at Essay
Forumhttp://www.essayforum.com/writing/advantage-disadvantage-
printing-technology-50228/
●3. 7 Cool Uses of 3D Printing in Medicine, available at Live
Sciencehttp://www.livescience.com/26853-3d-printing-medicine.html
