Oerlikon Group’sSecond Munich Technology Conference(MTC2) took place this week with industry professionals from all over the world converging to discuss the industrialization of additive manufacturing.
3D Printing Industry returned for the second year to join over 1000 attendees spanning across the two-day conference, a significant increase compared to the estimated 600 attendees of MTC1 last year.
解决该行业中当前的障碍和潜在解决方案，MTC2的专家分享了许多成功的增材制造的想法雷电竞充值生态系统。Oerlikon Group董事会主席MichaelSüss博士解释说：
“这种巨大的挑战只能由我们的社区，生态系统而不是一个政党来处理。”
The factors affecting additive manufacturing industrialization
Throughout my time at the MTC2, I recognized recurring factors of concern for a prosperous additive manufacturing industry. This included collaboration and digitization, material development, and advancements in the academic curriculum.
在整个会议期间，尤其是在MTC2的第一天，在有关添加剂制造以及学术界，企业和政府的作用的MTC2的第一天，此类主题仍然同样强调。雷电竞充值
“It’s not easy to adopt additive, that industrialization is going to take time,” said David Joyce,a Vice Chair ofGE和President and CEO forGE Aviation.
“The materials systems are complicated, the machine durability needs to be better, so I think that the adoption is about all of us starting on this journey of showing positive innovation within the industry. This will get a broader user base to make the technology become more mainstream as an industrial solution.”
Collaboration and digitization
Jan Mrosik, CEO of the Digital Factory Division atSiemens从普杜拉。布辛,主张增加合作esses within the industry. “With additive manufacturing, we have the opportunity to generate entirely new shapes, better designs, and cut down logistics. These advantages have to talk to people, therefore we have to make additive manufacturing simple.”
“当然，理想是一个全球平台，可以在其中围绕添加剂制造的知识和知识融合到一种巨大的生态系统中。雷电竞充值这种数字助理导致了我们的创建additive manufacturing network。”
“A place where everyone can hook into a cloud-based system, be it machine builders, material providers, designers, the ones who would like products printed, those that print products for others, software providers; all of these people can contribute and plug into such a platform. This forms a knowledge-sharing and transnational perspective to promote the practical usage of additive manufacturing.”
Advancing tertiary curriculums
Highlighting the importance of academia as well as collaboration, Joyce explained:
“Partnerships today will be totally different next year. In regulatory, we have a very very aggressive dialogue with theFAA和we understand how to certify additive parts. One of the other partnerships that is important are universities. We’re looking for young graduates who understand how to use additive [manufacturing] which requires a different skill set than they have today.”
“There will be a shift in curriculum for the traditional engineer if we are to be successful. Design in the next decade is going to be rapidly different than what we’re teaching today. Designs will become so organic in the future [and] there’s no reason for it not to be because you don’t pay for complexity in additive manufacturing the way you pay for complexity in traditional manufacturing.”
“教授设计的课程必须改变，他们必须创建一个工具集，以便设计师对今天可以制定的限制有所不同。这意味着制造类，材料类和设计类必须改变。”
Mrosik added, “[Additive manufacturing] starts with academia to really train people to be able to use its advantages. And, materials science needs to support these new designs.”
Considering the factors discussed to create a successful additive manufacturing ecosystem, Dr. Roland Fischer, CEO of Oerlikon Group, stated, “The most crucial element for me is that we must maintain a focus. We are all excited, but there are plenty of ideas and processes that have yet to be properly understood. Let us understand how to orchestrate this new technology other we will be in danger of missing something.”
Although the factors affecting the industrialization of additive manufacturing differ in importance from the industry experts, it is evident from my time at the MTC2 that the goal of 3D printing reaching a broader market remains the same.
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Featured image shows the exterior of the Second Munich Technology Conference. Photo by Tia Vialva.
