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The future of inkjet in Advanced
Manufacturing applications Mark Ritchie, Product Manager, Xaar plc
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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.“
Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles, 1962
Predicting the future
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“I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and
in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
Predicting the future
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Back to the Future 2 (1989)
Predicting the future
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Predicting the future
Wearable technology
Video calls
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Key industry drivers
• Cost down - “More for Less”
• Manufacturing flexibility
• Mass customisation
• Waste reduction
Industrial inkjet today
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• Analogue to digital shift
• Inkjet expansion to industrial print
Commercial – books, brochures, bills
Packaging – corrugated board, direct-to-shape
Décor – ceramics, laminates, glass
Textile – clothing and decor
• Functional applications emerging
Electronics – devices and displays
Energy – cells, batteries
Construction – structural coatings
Bio-medical
Industrial inkjet today
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End Shooter Type
Side Shooter Type
• End shooter v. Side Shooter
Reliability – increased machine uptime
Fluid range – particulated fluids
Throughput – single pass
• Fluid range
Chemistry
Materials compatibility
Viscosity / Temperature / Wetting
• Addressability and accuracy
• Drop size and uniformity
• Speed and reliability
• Throw Distance
Challenges for inkjet
• 24//7 production environment
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Advanced Manufacturing
Touchscreens
• Touchscreen and black matrix printing
• Multi-layer printing solutions • Multiple systems installed /
on order
Solar
• Front metalisation on solar cells
• 0.3% gain in cell efficiency vs traditional screen printing techniques
• Market still suppressed
• Nano-imprint Lithography • Enabling technology in
300mm segment • Focus on CMOS • Xaar 1002 AMp • Targets <1.0pL @ 1 m/s
Si Chip Manufacturing
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And 3D printing?
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25n
m
• 7 processing technologies
• Range of materials
Metals; Polymers; Ceramics; Paper
• Applications
Modelling
Prototyping
Bespoke manufacturing
Small batch manufacturing
• 3 inkjet based technologies
Direct material jetting – UV curable polymers
Binder jetting – to powder / sand bed
Powder bed fusion - HSS
3D Printing - Additive Manufacturing
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Volume
Hi
Lo
Prototyping Bespoke Manufacturing Modelling
Non-Functional Functional
Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing
FDM
ProJet
LOM MIT
Connex
Voxeljet
ExOne
HSS / Laser SL MIT Laser DMJ
MakerBot
RepRap
Fabster
Mcor
SHS
Blue
Printer
DMLS
EOS
ARCAM
Additive manufacturing
High Speed Sintering
Factum
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High Speed Sintering (HSS)
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• £1.5 million Innovate UK co-funded project
• High speed sintering of functional polymers
High volume, low cost components
Low volume, high performance components
Bespoke through to volume manufacturing
• Led by Farapack Polymers
Spin-off of University of Sheffield
• Partners
Unilever; BAE Systems; Cobham Aerospace;
Sebastian Conran Associates; Xaar;
University of Loughborough (IP)
• Multiple licenses signed
The Factum project
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• Industrial decoration and coatings
• Fine patterning
• Applications
Industrial coatings
Decorative / Functional glass
Display and device construction
Additive manufacturing
Solar, Fuel Cells and Batteries
PCB and semiconductor
Bio-medical
• Inkjet – an emerging and revolutionary technology
Industrial inkjet tomorrow