3d printing: preview the endless possibilities
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3DPRINTINGCreativity is the new superpower!
Deepak Mehta (3Dee)
3DPRINTING
• What is 3dprinting?
• How will it impact business models?
WHAT IS 3DPRINTING?• Different materials, different technologies
• SLS: Lasers + powders
• SLA: Lasers + liquid resins
• FDM: Extrusion
• Few common principles
• Layered, Additive, No efficiencies of scale.
SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
€100.000 +
STEREO LITHOGRAPHY
€3.000 +
FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLING
€500 +
WHAT IS 3DPRINTING?2D Print: 3D Print:
WHAT CAN WE 3DPRINT?
• Medical: prosthesis, bio-compatible materials
• Aerospace: light-weight components
• Aerospace: 3dprinting on the ISS
• Housing: $5000 houses in China and on Mars!
WHY 3DPRINT?• Massa Customisation:
• one design model, infinite variations
• history of the shoemaker
• Just in Time Objects
• Make objects when and where needed
WHY 3DPRINT?• New ways of creation
• next generation of designers can redesign EVERYTHING
• Bio-Mimicry will offer inputs570 onderdelen +
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IMPACT ON NEW BUSINESS MODELS
• New Culture: Generation what comes after Z?
• What changes?
• Threats and Opportunities?
NEW CULTURE
• From ownership to use
• From Hierarchies to Networks
• From Pension to Purpose/Passion
WHAT CHANGES?
• Lower barrier to entry for physical product startups
• an idea
• a 3dprinter
• lean business
WHAT CHANGES?
• Make products like apps
• iterate often
• local products solving local problems
• early adapters will help you fix your product
WHAT CHANGES?
• From 3dprinter to industrial
• prototypes and first products: 3dprinter + garage
• small batches: 3dprint a mould + outsource
• large batches: industrial mould based on 3dmodel + factory
WHAT CHANGES?
• 1800-1900: power = land (agriculture)
• 1900-2000: power = capital (production capacity)
• 2000-2015: power = information (knowledge)
• 2015+ : power = creativity
WHAT CHANGES?
• Global expansion?
• create 1000x100.000 companies instead of one 100.000.000 company
• each local company will adapt your solution to local problems
• source locally
THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?
• Disruptive
• new starters have no existing business to disrupt
• new starters can come from anywhere
• geographically
• sectorial
THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?
• Exponential
• some new business models scale exponentially
• appear slow at first, but explode
• often invisible to incumbents till it’s too late
THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES?
• Incubate!
• Think of your company as a network
• Offer network and expertise to starters
• Get to learn your potential competitors as co-competitors
CASE
• Ritik Mehta
• Age 14
• Passion: customised eyewear & 3dprinting
• Passion: helping kids who can not afford corrective eyewear (eyefortheworld.be)