HP Innovation Journal Issue 07: Summer 2017 | Page 6

3D objects printed with the HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution and Multi Jet Fusion technology
has been working hand in hand with leading
manufacturers, materials suppliers, service
bureaus, and design software design firms.
HP and Siemens recently announced a
collaboration to elevate 3D printing from
prototyping to full production. Siemens’ new
additive manufacturing offering, leveraging
their end-to-end design to production tech-
nology suite, will unlock the power of HP Multi
Jet Fusion technology. It will offer designers
unprecedented print control, including mate-
rial characteristics down to the voxel-level, at
speeds up to ten times faster and at half the
cost of current 3D print systems.
Jabil Circuit, a global manufacturing ser-
vices company, with 90 facilities across 23
countries around the world, was one of the
first customers of HP’s Jet Fusion 3D printing
solution. Jabil was attracted to the solution
because of the ability to manufacture produc-
tion-grade parts with cost-effective efficiency.
“For us, what’s powerful is the ability to
produce quality parts with consistency, a high
level of mechanical integrity and at speeds
that allow us to define a break-even point for
traditionally made parts using the HP plat-
form,” stated John Dulchinos, VP of Global
Automation and 3D Printing at Jabil.
“We can get parts that can start to rival
injection molding performance parameters
with a cost model that can be competitive
with molding parts,” Dulchinos added. Adding
to the Multi Jet Fusion technology appeal is
the ease of CAD model design and ability to
create parts with geometry you can’t produce
with molding.
A key component of HP’s 3D printing strat-
egy is to develop a partner-driven, open mate-
rials marketplace and ecosystem. The HP Multi
Jet Fusion Open Platform helps to remove t he
barriers to widespread 3D printing adoption, by
making it easier for companies to collaborate
on new materials innovation and speed time
to market. HP’s unique open platform model
for 3D printing helps expand the availability
of new materials — with the right properties,
consistency, and durability —  for next-gener-
ation industrial requirements.
To ensure broad availability of 3D printing
services to customers around the globe, HP
also recently unveiled a new global reseller
program — the HP Partner First 3D Printing
Specialization program. With more than 40
hand-selected, trained, and certified partners
across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific,
the program enables leading manufacturing
solutions providers to rapidly deliver HP’s 3D
printing technologies to customers and scale
to meet their needs.
Accelerated adoption of additive manufac-
turing reaches well beyond the product being
manufactured with impact on the labor force,
new skills development, and certification. With
digital manufacturing systems often running
24/7 with less need for human oversight and
fewer skills required to run those systems.
At the same time, it opens an opportunity
for new careers related to oversight of the
digital processes, service engineers, machine
operators, software developers, professionals
with a Materials Science and Metallurgy, IoT,
and data analytics. It also requires a series of
new certifications in processes, parts, and ma-
terials spurring a new wave of manufacturing
learning and training.
The digital manufacturing revolution is
upon us and the possibilities are endless.
Is your business ready for this next
wave? Let’s start reinventing manufacturing
together. 
Stephen Nigro is the President of HP‘s
3D Printing business. In this role, he
is responsible for bringing disruptive
innovations to market, leveraging our
proven technology and 2D expertise to
lead the 3D print market.
HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 Printer
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Scott Schiller is the Global Head of
Customer and Market Development for
HP’s 3D Printing global business unit,
and is accountable for vertical market
development, strategic customer en-
gagement and strategic partnerships/
alliances across 3D printing initiatives.