AEROSPACE
Among the first advocates of 3D printing, the airline industry is a driving force in the evolution of this technology for both manufacturing end-use parts and prototyping. Airlines depend on 3D printing to alleviate supply chain constraints, limit warehouse space and reduce wasted materials from traditional manufacturing processes. Rapidly producing aircraft parts on demand saves enormous amounts of space, time and money.
Airbus, now has a record number of 3D printed parts on their new A350 XWB aircraft, with 1,000+ parts.
ARCHITECTURE
For Architects things have drastically changed over the last decade with the introduction of 3D printing. Whilst an Architect can visualize their creation, that message has to be conveyed to the client to allow his passion to be viewed in all its glory. Years ago, great time and expense were given to the model to be hand-crafted out of foam, cardboard, wire and Perspex sheet.3D printing service is a success where it helps architects identify and resolve potential design flaws that would normally occur during the development and construction process.
AUTOMOTIVE
For the automotive industry recent advances in Rapid Prototyping have opened doors for newer, more robust designs, lighter, stronger, and safer products, reduced lead times, and reduced costs.From a full size wing mirror printed quickly with low cost FDM to a high detail, full color dashboard, there is an AM technology suited to every prototyping need. Some Additive Manufacturing engineering materials also allow for full testing and validation of prototype performance.
One of the areas 3D Printing has been most disruptive is the production of low cost rapid tooling for injection molding, thermoforming and jig and fixtures. Within the automotive industry this allows for tooling to be quickly manufactured at a low cost and then used to produce low to medium runs of parts. This validation mitigates the risk when investing in high cost tooling at the production stage.
CUSTOMIZED GIFTS
3D printing and making use of a 3D printing service provider has bred a thriving industry of self-taught designers who see business opportunities in making products for customers who have no access to customized or small batch production manufacturing techniques. Design-wise, the versatility of 3D printing ensures you’ll be giving a unique gift — or just putting an interesting twist on a classic design.3Dprinting technology has grown to the point that you can now take a picture on your smart-phone with a special app and use it to generate a 3D-printable file, and send it to your 3D printing service creating a resemblance of your friend or relative.
EDUCATION
Technology and education go hand in hand and if they are used together they can compliment each other spectacularly.
3D printing is an exciting and innovative technology, with multiple creative and practical applications. 3D printing allow students to bring ideas to life, going from a sketch on paper to a physical model. It is the future, children need to be taught about it and we need to invest more in bringing this technology in schools. Technology and education are both ever-changing professions, to move forward in your ability to educate, you need to move forward in the technology you use.
ELECTRONICS
3D printing is already used fairly broadly by the electronics industry, for everything that goes around the electronic components. Thanks to the fact that it allows mass customization, cheap iterations and adaptive design, 3D printing is often used to create enclosures and cases for electronic devices.
There are many examples among our clients, who use our3D Printing services in Coimbatore for prototyping and production of electronic devices.The triple requirements of attractive design, small form factor and high production efficiency make designing truly successful consumer electronics a real challenge.Each of their electronic components fits perfectly in one of the casing cavities that is conceived specifically for it.
CASTING
Whether foundries use sand molds for metal casting or plastic melt-off models for investment casting, in both cases they benefit from the many advantages of additive 3D printing processes.This technology is well established in the iron and metal casting field and is used wherever it is beneficial.While these applications primarily lie in the area of prototypes and small batches, the limits are increasingly shifting toward bigger and bigger volumes, as the performance of the 3D printing systems continues to improve.
In terms of overall costs, 3D printing is always the more economical alternative to conventional processes up to a certain batch size, since tool costs are eliminated.