3DPRINTINGCreativity is the new superpower!

Deepak Mehta (3Dee)

3DPRINTING

• What is 3dprinting?

• How will it impact business models?

WHAT IS 3DPRINTING?• Different materials, different technologies

• SLS: Lasers + powders

• SLA: Lasers + liquid resins

• FDM: Extrusion

• Few common principles

• Layered, Additive, No efficiencies of scale.

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING

€100.000 +

STEREO LITHOGRAPHY

€3.000 +

FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLING

€500 +

WHAT IS 3DPRINTING?2D Print: 3D Print:

WHAT CAN WE 3DPRINT?

• Medical: prosthesis, bio-compatible materials

• Aerospace: light-weight components

• Aerospace: 3dprinting on the ISS

• Housing: $5000 houses in China and on Mars!

WHY 3DPRINT?• Massa Customisation:

• one design model, infinite variations

• history of the shoemaker

• Just in Time Objects

• Make objects when and where needed

WHY 3DPRINT?• New ways of creation

• next generation of designers can redesign EVERYTHING

• Bio-Mimicry will offer inputs570 onderdelen +

assemblage1 onderdeel

IMPACT ON NEW BUSINESS MODELS

• New Culture: Generation what comes after Z?

• What changes?

• Threats and Opportunities?

NEW CULTURE

• From ownership to use

• From Hierarchies to Networks

• From Pension to Purpose/Passion

WHAT CHANGES?

• Lower barrier to entry for physical product startups

• an idea

• a 3dprinter

• lean business

WHAT CHANGES?

• Make products like apps

• iterate often

• local products solving local problems

• early adapters will help you fix your product

WHAT CHANGES?

• From 3dprinter to industrial

• prototypes and first products: 3dprinter + garage

• small batches: 3dprint a mould + outsource

• large batches: industrial mould based on 3dmodel + factory

WHAT CHANGES?

• 1800-1900: power = land (agriculture)

• 1900-2000: power = capital (production capacity)

• 2000-2015: power = information (knowledge)

• 2015+ : power = creativity

WHAT CHANGES?

• Global expansion?

• create 1000x100.000 companies instead of one 100.000.000 company

• each local company will adapt your solution to local problems

• source locally

THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?

• Disruptive

• new starters have no existing business to disrupt

• new starters can come from anywhere

• geographically

• sectorial

THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?

• Exponential

• some new business models scale exponentially

• appear slow at first, but explode

• often invisible to incumbents till it’s too late

THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?

• Incubate!

• Think of your company as a network

• Offer network and expertise to starters

• Get to learn your potential competitors as co-competitors

CASE

• Ritik Mehta

• Age 14

• Passion: customised eyewear & 3dprinting

• Passion: helping kids who can not afford corrective eyewear (eyefortheworld.be)

THANK YOU!

• I can help you

• put your idea into 3d

• Contact me on deepak@3dee.be