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DR PHIL REEVES

Principle Consultant, Econolyst

@3DPrintPeople

Dr Phil Reeves

3D PRINTING & THE INTERNET OF THINGS

• Quick Introduction to my world of work

• Why 3D printing is used to make stuff

• Who makes stuff using 3D Printing

• Where the Internet-of-Things comes in

• Looking forwards to future enablement

Content (15-mins)

My world of work

• Econolyst is a UK based consultancy & research firm dedicated to 3DPrinting & Additive Manufacturing

• Multidisciplinary team with almost 20-years experience widelyregarded as thought leaderships in the field of AM/3DP (social, economic,environmental, technical)

• Active across Europe, USA, Middle East & Asia Pacific (manufacturing & retailend users, technology vendors, investors)

Our world explained

AM / 3DP processes are automated systems that

take 2-dimensional layers of computer data and rebuild them into 3D solid objects

Where is this approach used

Consumer (home) 3D Printing

Where is this approach used

Consumer (home) 3D Printing

Industrial Additive

Manufacturing

Why this approach to making used?

– No tooling makes low volumes cheaper

– Excellent for product personalisation

– Less waste & transportation

– Shorter supply chain

– Faster time to market

– Enables new retail & marketing models

– Produces parts with better functionality

– Make parts with high geometric freedom

So where does the Internet of Things converge with making stuff in layers?

How is the Internet of Things impacting on me & my consumer 3D printer

Machine are becoming IoT devicesMaterial supply

monitoring

Build status monitoring

Performance

monitoring

Online control

tools

• 3D hubs

7,200 local 3D Printers500 regional hubs

142 countries

Consumer 3D printing tomorrow

Definite – All machines will be addressable, controllable and informative

Probable – All machines will be self diagnostic & self serving

Possible – Machine will interact with other ‘local’ devices to service their local environment

How is the Internet of Things impacting on me working in

Industrial Additive Manufacturing

Embedding RFID into products

Using physical to drive digital

Purchase

3D-printed

product

Scan &

register with

smartphone

Enriched

digital-physical

content

Sell in

secondary

market

CONSUMER INTERACTION WITH THE DRM PLATFORM

But what if we could print intelligence

We already have multimaterial 3D Printers (colour,

elasticity, strength)

We already have 2D Printers electronics & optics

AM 2.0 – multifunctional printing

Infrastructs & terahertz scanning

Industrial AM 2.0 tomorrow

Definite – We will be able to print electron & photon pathways (circuits)

Probable – We will be able to print energy storage & harvesting devices

Possible – Machine will be able to print transistor arrays & living organic circuits

Technology convergence………

Thank you

+44 (1773) 880527www.econolyst.co.uk