DISRUPTIVE
INNOVATION
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INM VOLUME 9
3D PRINTING: FUTURE OF
CUSTOMIZED
MANUFACTURING
SHIVRAJ MOHITE
PGDM 2016 18
NMIMS HYDERABAD
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3D Printing 3DP is a process which produces
objects by printing successive layers of
materials like molten plastic The printing is
done by using 3 dimensional computer aided
designs also termed as additive
manufacturing AM
One thing about which we can be certain is that
3DP has a huge potential to disrupt the
manufacturing business For decades 3DP was only
used for prototyping low volume high value items
3DP is neither capable nor cost effective enough to
take on the manufacturing of high volume end
products
Although 3DP is not a new concept as it has
been there since the 1990s but with the
gradual improvements in the technology
more efficient machines have emerged and
materials used now include plastics metals
composites ceramics and the list is still
expanding with new products being added to
the list with each passing day
Hence 3DP today has the potential to start a
new industrial revolution which will result in
establishing methods for making and
delivering products and in the future tthe
current manufacturing processes may
becomes obsolete
However with advances in technology falling prizes
faster and easier to use printers may be Just what
the doctored ordered to reform the manufacturing
industry Now it s only a matter of time before 3DP
comes out of rapid prototyping and runs into the
assembly line for end use production
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