additive manufacturing strategy and digital transformation

1 STRATASYS / THE 3D PRINTING SOLUTIONS COMPANY

PHOENIX ANALYSIS & DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES

We Make Innovation Work

Additive Manufacturing Strategy

and Digital Transformation

Rey Chu

September 26, 2018

AZ VFS

We Make Innovation Workwww.padtinc.com

PADT, Inc. We Make Innovation Work• Founded in 1994 by four engineers

• Headquarter in Tempe, AZ

• Offices in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,

and Texas

• Facilities - 24,000 SF office and lab space

• R&D Labs with over $2M in equipment

• Engineering lab, Prototyping shop, Manufacturing

space, inspection and inventory

• ~ 95 Employees


PADT Businesses

Engineering Tools Resale and Support

Software: ANSYS, FLOWNEX, GeoMagics, NIMBIX

Hardware: Stratasys, Desktop Metal, ZEISS, CUBE

Engineering Services

Simulation consulting

Product development

R&D: SBIR (13 awards since 1999)

Manufacturing Technologies

3DP/AM services: SLA, SLS, FDM, PolyJet, DLS, DMLS

3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering

3D Printing post processing products

Additive Manufacturing R&D: SBIR and America Makes


Manufacturing in the Digital World

• Companies in every vertical are driving digital transformation. How does your company compare?

• Heightened customer expectations, new digital realities, more disruptive competitors and new models and ecosystems are upon us. Manufacturers must transform their execution and go-to-market models to succeed in the new digital world.

• But how do they fare?


Technologies Transforming Industrial Production

Robotics

VR

&

AR

Big Data

AnalyticsSimulation

IIOT

Cyber

Security

AI &

Machine

Learning

System

Integration


Disrupting Industries with Additive TechnologyIndustry 4.0 is upon us:‒ Additive Technology and 3D Printing is enabling a revolutionary transformation in how we work, live

and interact with each other

‒ This revolution has the potential to disrupt and reinvent virtually every aspect of the $12 trillion

manufacturing industry


3DP & AM Innovations Touching Our Lives• From military, defense, space, aerospace, automobile to sports

equipment, toys, fashion and jewelry. From heavy machinery, consumer

electronics to personalized medicine, custom medical implants and

manufacturing tools and molds.


Benefits of Adopting Additive Manufacturing

PRODUCTION BENEFITS

• Less materials

• Lower tooling costs

• Shorter lead time

• Simpler assembly

• Automation

LIFETIME BENEFITS

• Less weight

• Faster product launch

• Higher product reliability

• Higher performance

• Better adaptation

• Product attraction

• Reduced inventory

• Higher responsiveness

Rapid Prototyping & Tooling

Direct Part Replacement

Part Consolidation

DfAM Optimized

Low volume parts made direct from CAD

Re-production parts that eliminate tooling or simplify process

Complex parts that simplify assembly and enhance reliability

New product designs - Deliver lifetime benefits in use, mass customization


Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) – Process

Images source: Carbon 3D


Carbon DLS Technology – Connectivity Digital Manufacturing

Images source: Carbon 3D


Carbon DLS Technology – Adidas Futurecraft 4D

• Carbon and Adidas have pushed the performance function of footwear to a new level with the launch of Futurecraft 4D. The newly launched shoe has precisely digitally tuned functional zones within the midsole. Notice how the midsole has different lattice structures in the heel and forefoot, to account for different cushioning needs for these parts of the foot while running.

Images source, Carbon 3D


HP Multi Jet Fusion – Printing Process

HP Technical White Paper: HP Multi Jet fusion Technology


HP Multi Jet Fusion - Application

HP, Inc. Sterling Chaffins


Laser Powder Bed Fusion –(LaserCUSING, DMLS, SLM, DMP)

• In a typical LPBF process, a laser beam scans across a thin layer of metallic powders, and locally

melts the powders through to the layer below. There are many highly dynamic and transient

physical phenomena involved in the process because of the extremely high heating and cooling

rates e.g. melting and partial vaporization of metallic powders, flow of the molten metal, powder

ejection and re-distribution, rapid solidification, non-equilibrium phase transition, etc.


GE Additive LaserCUSING – Meltpool Monitoring

QM Meltpool 3D – Camera and Photodiode

Camera Photodiode


QM Meltpool 3D – Visualization

Data acquisition and correlation 3D visualization

3D

2D

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2D

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x

GE Additive LaserCUSING – Meltpool Monitoring


GE Additive Concept Laser M LINE Factory


3D Systems Figure 4 – Automated Connected

Smart Devices• Modular, scalable, fully-integrated direct 3D production platform, completely

customizable and scalable

• Completely automated, with integrated post-processing. Automated material

delivery and integrated post-processing reduce labor requirements - increasing

productivity and lowering total cost of operation.


Stratasys Continuous Build 3D


Design for AM Evolution – Distribution Manifold (GE)

Technology adoption roadmap and strategy is important‒ Sensors, embedded sensors

‒ Smart materials

‒ Processes, manipulation of atomic level

‒ Control, microstructure properties


Design for AM Optimized – Satellite Antenna (Optisys)


Design for Additive Manufacturing – GE Advanced TurboProp


Manufacturing in the Digital Age –Additive Manufacturing is a Key Enabling Technology

Enable and Empower through

Customization

Invention & Production

Collaboration

Digital Manufacturing

Leveraging Digital

Intelligence

Production with Decreased

Transport

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