Next month experts will gather in California for theBIG IDEAS for UV+EB Technology Conference. The event brings together leaders and enterprises from across the materials industry to discuss applications and science with a view on developments expected in the next decade.
今年大思想包括一个专用的添加剂manufacturing track with leaders from across academia and industry bringing their insight to attendees.
Speakers include experts from Formlabs, Carbon, UCLA, Sartomer, Ford and Fast Radius. I caught up with Ford’s technical leader additive manufacturing, the director of materials at Origin and the Past-President of RadTech International – producers of the BIG IDEAS event.
The near and long term future of additive manufacturing
Dr. Mike J. Idacavage has over three decades experience working in the UV curing industry. As past-president and chair of the AM committee atRadtechinternational，紫外线和EB技术协会，他借鉴了这一经验，将来自领域的专家汇集在一起，以获取大创意。Idacavage博士解释说：“尽管许多会议往往是新的突破性和渐进式改进的结合，但重点的重点是策划AM会议，这确实是基于UV Curting的AM近期和长期未来的窗口/液体树脂技术。”
The focus at BIG IDEAS is on the most significant developments for additive manufacturing.
Idacavage博士说：“我们希望演讲者会讨论原材料，新的UV固化技术，配方，设备和主要最终用户的创新。”迅速的一场专门为AM成长为全天计划的课程的最初计划 - 增添影响也扩展到其他曲目，例如新兴技术。
开车在福特生产
Ellen C. Lee Ph.D.是添加剂制造研究的技术领导者雷电竞充值福特Motor Company. Lee has spent two decades at Ford working with advanced polymer and composite materials, previously she has conducted research atUC Berkeleyand taught polymer classes at Wayne State.
Lee will be speaking on the topic of driving additive manufacturing towards production of end-use parts at BIG IDEAS, and providing insights gained from her substantial real-world experience. “Challenges in using additive manufacturing in the automotive industry arise when scaling processes for high volumes,” says Lee. Continuing she notes, “In order for the automotive industry to produce more AM end-use parts, we need to develop automotive grade materials for AM, increase the throughput rates, and reduce process and material costs.” But what are the additive manufacturing technologies most suited to the automotive industry?
“There are a vast number of applications for AM in automotive and most AM technologies have a place to address each use case. For series production parts, technologies with open materials platforms that offer high throughput are the best suited.”
开放添加剂生产
开放材料是加利福尼亚公司Origin制作3D打印的计划的核心。Stephanie Benight博士是材料总监起源and well placed to provide insight into the key trends in additive manufacturing in 2019.
“We believe 2019 will see an explosion in new material chemistries coming to market with novel applications for industries that have been slow to adopt additive for end-use parts,” says Benight. “These industries demand specific properties and rigorous quality requirements that many existing industrial 3D printers can’t address. Origin’s technology gives users the control required to meet those demands.”
该技术的一部分被称为可编程光聚合或p^3。Benight解释说：“ p^3可以对打印过程进行体素级别的控制，并与板载传感器集成，从而使用户能够真正自定义零件的打印和执行方式。这对需要强大的制造数据并与现有软件解决方案集成的行业具有影响。”
在2019年大创意期间，本尼特将提供讨论的方法加速开放添加剂生产. Attendees can expect to, “gain a clear understanding of how an open material development strategy accelerates advances in photopolymer technology and increase the number of materials that become viable for commercial applications,” says Benight.
“参与者还将学习验证化学成分以始终如一地打印的步骤。演讲将描述如何与物质合作伙伴迅速迭代，然后向观众开放，讨论有关照相化学的共同挑战的讨论。”
Dr. Idacavage says that the focus on photopolymer materials and technology and such a “deep dive into the science and applications of photopolymer 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing” makes the BIG IDEAS conference unique in comparison to other events. “By listening to and interacting with organizations like Formlabs, Ford, Fast Radius, Origin, Sartomer, Allnex, NIST, UCLA, and more, I hope that the attendees will discover the new idea, meet the right contact or get inspired to make the next generation Big Idea that will continue to transform the AM industry,” he says.
It is testament to the additive program at BIG IDEAS that the speakers are also excited about the event. “I’m looking forward to learning more about emerging UV/EB technologies and about robust materials development for AM technologies that can be applied to automotive applications,” says Ford’s Lee.
What’s next for additive manufacturing with photopolymers?
我问Idacavage博士对添加剂制造最有趣的领域的看法。雷电竞充值他认为，光聚合物开发工作中最激动人心的两个领域“是对树脂配方中使用的原材料的改进，以及在配方实验室中所做的工作，以创造性地结合不同的化学作用，以实现尚不可从单一类UV获得的性能反应性材料。”
“On the raw material side, there is fascinating work being done in other applications that combines the benefits of traditional UV curable chemistry with that of other systems such as inorganic/organic hybrids,” he says.
“我的最大想法是将新一代有机/无机混合系统与最先进的配方工作相结合，以创建AM液体材料，以复制或改善各种有用的商业塑料材料的性能。这将允许目前正在使用注射成型的公司探索AM的好处，而不会遭受制造部分的任何性能的损失。”
Dr Idacavage acknowledges that this target is extremely challenging but “results are being reported at conferences such as BIG Ideas that clearly show that the cured performance properties are being expanded to the levels required by the end use.”
If you want to learn more about what the future holds for AM from leading experts then the BIG IDEAS for UV+EB Technology Conference will take place on March 19 and 20, 2019, in Redondo Beach, California. Visit theBIG IDEAS conference websiteto learn more.
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