Document 6504388

The Business Case for 3D Printing
How to profit from 3D printing technology – and how and when to invest.
Don Carli
CEO & Founder
Nima Hunter Inc.
www.nimahunter.com
carli@nimahunter.com
About Nima Hunter Inc.
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Market Research, Business Intelligence, Strategic Planning
Founded in 1986
Based in New York City
Areas of expertise:
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Digital Printing
Smart Packaging Printed Electronics
SocialLocalMobile Marketing Environmental Lifecycle Analysis 3D Modeling, Visualization & Manufacturing
Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility
What is the category?
•  3D Printing
•  Making
•  Rapid Prototyping
•  Additive Fabrication
•  Additive Manufacturing
•  Personal Manufacturing
•  Digital Part Materialization
•  Direct Digital Manufacturing
Are we talking about this?
Are we talking about this?
Or are we talking about this?
A Maker’s Taxonomy
Additive Manufacturing Methods
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EBM - Electron Beam Melting
SLA - Stereolithography
DMLS - Direct Metal Laser Sintering
Wax Jetting - (e.g. Solidscape)
FDM - Fused Deposition Modeling (e.g. Stratasys)
PolyJet - (e.g. jetting of photo-cure resins)
Digital mask-based - (e.g. envisionTEC)
SLS - Selective Laser Sintering
3DP - 3-Dimensional Printing (e.g. Z-Corp)
Ultrasonic AM - Fabrisonic
Why are people excited about it?
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Runs of One
Cost Effective
Minimal Waste
New Applications
New Business Models
New Shapes & Structures
Time to Market Advantage
Consumer Market Potential
Distributed Design & Manufacturing
How Big Are Potential Markets?
•  Business
•  Military
•  Government
•  Consumer
•  Education
•  NGO
•  Other
What are their specific needs?
•  Business
•  Military
•  Government
•  Consumer
•  Education
•  NGO
•  Other
What do their value chains look like?
Where are the killer apps?
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Jewelry?
Portraits?
Lamp Shades?
iPhone Cases?
Dental Implants?
Military Hardware?
Art & Architecture?
Aircraft & Auto Parts?
Christmas Ornaments?
How are markets changing?
•  ISO TC261
•  ASTM Committee F42
•  Lean Six Sigma Initiatives
•  Sustainability Imperatives
•  Increased Public Awareness
•  Additive Manufacturing Initiatives
•  AM Design & Engineering Education
NAMII
•  NAMII is a public-private
partnership with members from industry, academia and
government managed by the
National Center for Defense
Manufacturing and Machining
(NCDMM) with a singular,
shared vision to transition
additive manufacturing
technology to the mainstream
U.S. manufacturing sector.
The Additive Manufacturing Consortium (AMC)
•  Organized by EWI, the AMC
consists of over 30 members
from industrial organizations,
professional associations and
U.S. government agencies
including Boeing, Lockheed
Martin, General Dynamics, GE, Rolls-Royce, Goodrich,
Honeywell, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, NIST and NASA
ORNL Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
•  Assists industry by conducting
assessments of new fabrication concepts
and additive manufacturing methods
•  Advanced Materials:  
Low-cost titanium alloys, magnesium alloys,
and metal matrix composite products
•  Transient Field Processing
 
Radiant, magnetic, ultrasonic, electron beam,
microwave processing for increased fatigue
life and strength and stress relief
How are technologies changing?
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Standards
Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Advanced Material Science
Design & Engineering for
Function vs. for Manufacturing
•  Topology Optimization
•  Lifecycle Analysis
Image by Oskay Fabrisonic
•  Fabrisonic is a joint venture between
Solidica and EWI that is pioneering
development of Ultrasonic Additive
Manufacturing (UAM), a process that
uses sound to merge layers of metal.
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Tamperproof, ultra-rugged enclosures
Low temperature process enables electronics embedding
Non-destructive, fully-encapsulating fiber
embedding
Complex internal geometries
Fully enclosed, sealed internal cavity creation and object embedding
Dissimilar material joining
Oxford Performance Materials
•  OsteoFab medical implants from CT
Scan or MRI files 3D printed via SLS in
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biocompatible OXPEKK -IG Poly-EtherKetone-Ketone thermoplastic polymer.
•  Radiolucenct
•  Excellent abrasion resistance
•  Chemically inert & non-absorbable
•  Density & stiffness similar to bone
•  2X the compressive strength of PEEK
•  Compatibile with common sterilization methods
SpaceClaim
•  SpaceClaim provides a suite of Direct
Modeling tools to get CAD geometry
ready for additive manufacturing.
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Scale CAD models to ideal size, then adjust wall thicknesses
Split large parts into multiple pieces
Add internal or external support and lips as
well as mortise and tenon joints as necessary
Import and improve SketchUp and STL data
Repair and solidify surface geometry, even if it doesn't form a watertight boundary
GrabCad
•  An online marketplace for
connecting mechanical
engineers with people who want stuff built as well
as a free online CAD library
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More than 10% of the world’s
CAD engineers already part of
GrabCAD’s online community
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Over 350,000 users
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Over 65,000 CAD projects
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Recently closed $8.15 million in Series B financing
When should you invest?
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Who are your target customers?
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Which of their needs will you serve?
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Who will be competing with you for purchase decisions?
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What meaningful differentiated benefits will you deliver?
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Why should customers believe you can deliver?
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What is your business model?
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What does your brand stand for?
Lessons From Nature
Questions?
Contact
Don Carli
CEO & Founder
Nima Hunter Inc.
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100 Park Avenue. 16 Floor
New York, NY 10017
www.nimahunter.com
carli@nimahunter.com
Office: 917-725-2206
Skype: dcarli
Twitter: @dcarli