As soon as the organizing committee of Tianjin Machine Tool Exhibition reported that 3D printing would be displayed at the exhibition site in March 2014, it received a large number of calls from manufacturing enterprises, asking about the equipment of 3D printing. With the passage of time, more and more 3D printing technology has come into people's attention. 3D printing has attracted the attention of most people. Recently, many powerful companies are increasing their efforts to develop cheaper and more efficient 3D printers. At present, 3D printing has gradually become the most popular processing equipment in aerospace, medical treatment, cultural relic protection, architectural design, manufacturing, food, teaching and other production and life fields.
The 10th China (Tianjin) International Machine Tool Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Machine Tool Exhibition"), co-sponsored by China Nonferrous Metal Processing Industry Association, Machinery Industry Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Tianjin Economic and Information Technology Commission, Tianjin Commission of Commerce, Tianjin Institute of Instrumentation, Tianjin Institute of Automation Industry and Zhenwei Exhibition Group, will be held on October 201 It will be held in Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center, the main venue of Summer Davos Forum, from March 6-9, 2004.
The author interviewed Mr. Deng Xiaohui, head of the organizing committee of Tianjin Machine Tool Exhibition, and learned that many 3D printer enterprises have applied for Tianjin Machine Tool Exhibition since it was opened in 2014. Companies including Beijing Andu, Beijing Innotech and Tianjin Weishen Technology will display their independently developed 3D printing equipment with different functions. As soon as the organizing committee of the Machine Tool Exhibition announced that the 3D printer would be displayed at the exhibition site, it received calls from many enterprises at home and abroad. Some enterprises would like to purchase this equipment at the exhibition site, and some enterprises are studying the raw materials of 3D printing and want to learn more information through the exhibition. 3D printers have become a very popular technology in the field of industrial production.
In the social environment of rapid development of industrial production technology, 3D printing equipment, which is not a new thing, seems to be a gem that has been hidden for a long time. After more than a century of slow development and lonely years, 3D printing has become popular in the entire field of industrial production, and has been studied by many authoritative experts in the world. Many high-tech enterprises have also begun to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the research of 3D technology and equipment and the promotion of products.
The author visited many industrial parks around China, and learned that many enterprises of aerospace, medical care, machinery manufacturing, food and educational products are optimistic about 3D printing technology, and some of them have begun to consider using this technology for daily production.
What is 3D printing
3D printer, is a kind of rapid prototyping technology machine, it is a digital model file based on the use of powder metal or plastic and other adhesive materials, through the way of layer by layer printing technology to construct objects. In the past, it was often used in mold manufacturing, industrial design and other fields to manufacture models, and now it is gradually used in the direct manufacturing of some products.
The principle of 3D printing is to put data and materials into a 3D printer, and the machine will follow the program to build the product layer by layer. The printed product is ready for immediate use. Food can also be printed using 3D printers. This is also the future direction of 3D printers that most foodies are concerned about.
Why is 3D printing so promising
Compared with traditional printing and production equipment, 3D printing presents obvious advantages that are favored by the whole industry. In short, its advantages are mainly manifested in the following aspects: first, the manufacture of complex goods does not increase the cost; Secondly, without assembly, 3D printing can make parts integrated forming; Third, zero time delivery, can be printed on demand, can minimize the cost of long-distance transportation; Fourth, infinite design space; 3D printers can design limitations, open up huge design Spaces, and even make shapes that may currently exist only in nature; Fifth, 3D printers take instructions from design documents and require less skill than injection molding machines to make equally complex objects. Unskilled manufacturing opens up new business models and can provide people with new production methods in remote environments or extreme situations; Sixth, with the development of multi-material 3D printing technology, different raw materials can be fused together. Raw materials that could not be mixed before will be mixed to form new materials, these materials have a wide variety of tones, with unique properties or functions; Seventh, accurate physical replication, extending digital precision to the physical world. Scanning technology and 3D printing technology will work together to improve the resolution of morphometric transformations between the physical and digital worlds, allowing us to scan, edit and copy physical objects to create exact copies or optimize originals.
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