3D Printing Industry is taking an in depth look at how additive manufacturing is moving to production. Over the coming weeks the results of interviews with industry leading practitioners will be published.
This article is part of a series examining促进生产的添加剂制造雷电竞充值趋势。
兰德普·辛格（Randeep Singh）是aon3d。Based in Montreal, Canada the company’s AON-M industrial 3D printer使用高端生产级热塑性塑料，例如PEEK™和ULTEM™。
3DPI：您的打印机用于生产与其他应用程序的百分比估计值是多少？
兰德普·辛格（Randeep Singh）：根据我们看到的内容，我们估计约有15％的客户使用AM用于最终用途零件。如果包括制造工具/摇摆/固定装置，这些数字急剧上升（25％+）。许多客户目前正在内部评估AM，希望将来将其移至最终用途。
3DPI：哪些行业/垂直行业在使用AM进行生产方面处于领先地位？
RS：机器人技术是一项巨大的 - 许多定制机器人系统从未打入大众制造技术的生产量。无人机和飞机是另一个，AM具有复杂几何形状的能力可以节省大量权重，尽管零件的资格是一个问题。
Manufacturing is probably the biggest adopter, because AM produced tools/jigs/fixtures have such an immediate payback period (when compared to current solutions), that it’s almost a no-brainer.
3DPI：生产面临哪些障碍？如何克服这些障碍？
RS: Part Strength – parts printed with low-quality materials aren’t fit for end use because they don’t have the requisite performance ability for a lot of use cases. The trend of higher-strength plastics becoming useful is changing users perspective of what’s possible with AM.
Reliability – for a lot of businesses, AM is a cost & lead-time play — meaning that it’s being used to either significantly speed up a manufacturing process or development process, or used to cut costs (via no requirement for initial tooling/outsourcing). If printers operate unreliably, than it wastes valuable human time, which greatly affects the overall ROI.
Cost – Traditional industrial AM systems are producing parts at close to or above to costs of outsourcing/other techniques. This was making AM a hard sell internally, but with the new generation of products that have a more useful cost-per-part, we’re seeing a lot more interest especially from smaller manufacturers/firms.
认证对航空航天更重要，但是存在大量的非AEROSPACE应用程序，因此我认为我们仍然会看到很多采用
这不仅仅是硬件 - 也是材料与过程工程。每个材料和每个部分都是不同的，结果是（两者的每个组合）可能具有不同的最佳过程设置。这是我们正在努力的事情，因为这是印刷失败的主要原因。
Process settings/variables matter a lot more in high-strength polymers than in low-strength ones, and can produce part strength variation as high as 2-300%.
意识。
3DPI: Are there any notable trends in AM for end use production?
RS：可以使用高端材料的事实是巨大的 - 这是开放最终用途市场的主要驱动力。我们看到了人们获得AM解决方案的一种趋势，并意识到一旦他们学习了如何使用它，它就会变得更加强大。随着AM解决方案变得越来越友好，我们预测这种趋势将继续。
This article is part of a series examining促进生产的添加剂制造雷电竞充值趋势。
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特色图片显示了Rapid 2017上的AON3D团队和AON-M 3D打印机。迈克尔·皮奇（Michael Petch）的照片。
