you didn't. discover the in. the book. subscribe. documentary. ban the order. and objects take shape as if by magic created one layer to time by a machine they can be made of plastics or even metal digital construction. brought to life. when a whole new world the whole world were merging software mature side. projects can

move from the drawing board to the finished products with remarkable lack of time straight dimensional printed material and labor and energy as they turned out. and allows goods to be produced in lower quantities for morata closer to the point of consumption a. technology the power to revolutionize the flow of goods and the product market. for destroying the old production methods that were used for decades. and now are supposed to use 3 d. practical tools in the log. project now it looks set to become a. might even a. comeback. berlin's

quite spec district is home to a company called big rep which makes an arch scale 3 d. printers. engineered steffen by a founded the company in 2014 now it's 90 employees work in international teams to design and manufacture 3 d. printers for industrial clients have been 1000000 more and yet the money for. the printing is done with plastic for example to manufacture cladding for houses that regulates the inside temperature based on how high the sun. does it up and. made of was of how this will be a part of a façade that's 10 by 20 meters. the great thing about this cladding is that it reflects sunlight in summer and lots in sunlight during winter which creates a pleasant climate. also make spare parts.

by this is the head rest for passenger train seats. for if the head rest is missing or broken people are going to be uncomfortable even if we can supply a new frame was often a. big red post designed to headrest prototype and is testing it for a german railway company doing. the printer piles thin layers of material on top of each other in this case melted plastic filament the process additive manufacturing . builds up objects instead of carving them out of a block. the printing is based on computer models they could be scans of spare parts or entirely new products like this electric motorcycle here the big red building a prototype of the major cycle to go on display 2 weeks later at the forum next trade fair in frankfurt. still have

a lot of work to do before the form next we have to get the printers ready and print out lots of parts of it. almost all the bikes parts have come out of the printer including the elastic tires the frame and the lights many components consist of biodegradable plastic made from corn starch. the team needed just 12 weeks to get from the preliminary design sketches to the finished prototype. but they're still working out a few bugs. the engineers spent a year tinkering with the new printers and now the machines can be installed in a production line and controlled automatically that's an important step towards mass production. so far 3 d. printing has been used mainly for one off project. does.

the great thing about 3 d. printing is that we can create parks that used to see members possible within the. classical manufacturing processes simply could not work with certain complex geometry and see such as in furniture in stockton. or this gripping device for roebucks which is based on the design of the human finger. the device is outfitted with flexible that provide a non-slip grip. plus in that song that i thought out and does the fascinating thing is that our creative process is completely digital. the engineers can sit down at the computer and just design something. and their imagination is no longer limited by classical production methods such as sawing one knowing it so much was ignored a phrase and. this revolutionary new concept may well improves the ways

that industry designs manufacture and transport its products. and she cargo is home to a number of new high tech companies including fast radio they print components that are precise and. in the mechanical engineering industry. fast radius often uses plastic residence which allow for faster printing. the process looks like something out of a science fiction film the metal foot dips into the resin solution. the components solidify on the bottom as if by magic no molds and he did like this inside the solution in shoulder tamely certain parts harden and. this process makes the product lighter and also use fewer room material the companies co-founder and

c.e.o. is a recipe fast radiances working with logistics company u.b.s. to completely rethink the concept of supply chains out of many fashion will have a profound impact on how global supply chains work we call it the 4th modality of logistics in fact i what we mean is that through human history we have moved parts in 3 ways by ground by air and by sea and now we have a 4th mode of transportation and that is moving parts by the internet at this point of our. digital production offers a tremendous freedom to potential clients a global 3 d. printing that can provide products more efficiently transport great social and there are no huge specialized factories. these days 3 d. printers can make just about anything and robots automatically supervise the assembly lines. these machines can print single pieces or entire series of

products 24 hours a day. but so far 3 d. printing accounts for only a small percentage of global manufacturing sales which now total about 12 trillion dollars revenues for the 3 d. printing industry and 2017 were only about $7000000000.00 over the next 10 years sales are expected to reach $100000000000.00. a lot of spare parts and now made by 3 d. printers. companies can simply scan and store the components instead of keeping them for years in warehouses and they can print new parts whenever they need them. how many data points to be got from this part from each scan it's in the millions points they were gathering. and you know for

a point like this 1000000 the point is is a little redundant so what happens is the computer it so notices redundancies points where it can simplify and then throws away hundreds of thousands of points. the scans are stored in a digital facility and can be printed at any time the companies save money because they don't have to keep lots of products in big warehouses and their machines last longer because spare parts are always available. one of our clients is an aerospace client they had a need for a critical tool for repair normally it would have taken them $48.00 days to have a tool fabricated in a conventional methods instead they ordered a part from our virtual warehouse and we made the parts certify the part and delivered it halfway around the world within 48 hours or it's often fast it's a printer component part than it is to build it from scratch in future this will likely be done on site this situation threatens to transform the way that logistics

companies like u.p.s. do business it would eliminate lengthy transport rates well warehouses for customers spam pots that's why u.p.s. has teamed up with fast radius to start building a global network of 3 d. print service providers. you know allows goods to be produced in lower quantities more often closer to the point of consumption that's going to radically change the supply chain and u.p.s. has to be able to trade with it in the and so that's why. we're investing in this in this area because we want to be part of this evolving ecosystem many products will no longer be mass produced they'll be printed individually to meet the specific needs of clients that will help to eliminate overproduction and long transport grid. 3 d.

production also office and number of other advantages. if you're a producer for an audience of one so our custom shoe or customary or a custom orthotic those are not going to be produced a mass of factories going to be much more economical to produce those using 3 d. printing and so but all of those materials still need to get to the 3 d. manufacturer and instead of you know shipping out you know thousands of things and balk you're going to have thousands of individual shipments so to a company like u.p.s. that's very good it might be good for u.p.s. but less so for traffic and the environment it means more trucks delivering more products and emitting more pollution an effect we've already seen with the rise of online shopping and there are other risks for example how can 3 d.

printing companies prevent the manufacture of illegal weapons. what we're doing we make sure we screen every company that we're making parts for to ensure that they're not making unregulated firearms yeah vigilance and. that criminals will always find ways to get the weapons they want homemade firearms and nothing new but today's high quality 3 d. printing materials can withstand extreme pressure and. they could be to make weapons. in 2013 some israeli reporters used as 3 d. printed to make a handgun and then tested it. just about a headshot. you know. later the reporters smuggled the gun into the israeli parliament building in jerusalem. all. the gun had

a metal firing pin but security devices failed to detect it. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu was attending a ceremony in the building the reporter who had this 3 d. gun was seated just 10 rows away from him and even pointed the weapon at the prime minister netanyahu said office later criticised the reporter's actions irresponsible. the hamburg district to fink and that is home to an air bus factory. the head of the company's emerging technologies department is making. his team uses 3 d. printed prototypes to help improve components. the idea to have had all had of input as put in south dakota added their manufacturing definitely has the potential to change the entire value chain and we can do production on site redesign

processes and print on demand we can develop completely new products for next generation aircraft because this is where our bus assembles its a 350 passenger jets a key component is now been printed in quantity the door locking shelf. there due to fly in the aircraft later this year. this component usually consists of 10 parts but the airbus version has just one thought we've been to created several functions and reduced the weight and there are 2 of these parts per dollar and they make the aircraft might or by 4 kilograms that's a lot in the aviation world they've got it cuts down on fuel consumption and c o 2 emissions so. over the 30 year lifespan of an aircraft one less kilogram of weight will save half and. a 1000000 liters of fuel the a $350.00 actually has a lot of 3 d. printed parts $16.00 shaft. 20 brackets

for the crew cabin compartment. and more than $1000.00 plastic parts in panels ventilation systems and electronics ever asked is even testing prototypes of electrical parts. 3 d. printing is typically used to build grid structures like this cabin partition wall the printed version uses less material and so it's lighter than previous models airlines are always trying to reduce the weight of their planes to save fuel but airbus believes the 3 g. process could be even more efficient. this is the largest component that we can make right now we'd like to build bigger ones it took us a total of 900 hours to produce a complete partition wall and 7 construction chambers that means we had to start up a printer 7 times to produce the $116.00 parts we. were not the.

900 hours of printing time for just one wall that's a lot of work in future the hope is to print a mold and then cast it again and again right now conventional mass production methods can still produce components like this more quickly and cheaply than 3 d. can. but that could soon change. the form next additive manufacturing trade fair in frankfurt there are some sophisticated examples of 3 day technology here like this model of a human body printed in want to go. klaus m. a man advises companies on which 3 d. production methods might work best for them he says that more and more businesses are making the try. to this technology. we use to be frank the automotive industry is now starting to design 3 d.

components for their vehicles so i guess that's good for the environment because those parts will be produced only on demand and they can be made using powder which can be delivered locally and printed out anywhere in the world where they're needed all stalky for example these lightweight brake pedals were made by 3 d. printers and produced a cool factory that cuts down on waste and emissions. yes spawn we typically save 6 tons of c o 2 emissions per kilo become parent to conventional methods in this your home this facility in the state of lower saxony will be able to print 3 g. component parts out of iowa minium fully automatically this technology could encourage companies to keep their production facilities in germany instead of exporting them overseas. and yes if i believe we

can bring those factories back to germany provided that they're fully automated these in and if we can do that was willing crease the economic value of german companies for the ones i love. the traditional mass production is still unbeatable cheap particularly in asia 3 d. printing will have to bring something else to the table like printing several components at once such innovations could enhance the competitive profile of german companies. 3 d. printing is already well known for its ability to produce complex prototypes. the motorcycle designed and built by big rep was finished in time for the expo but company execs say that they'll have to do a better job of giving customers what they want. we all know that for 30 years think about it 30 years there's been a promise made through the industrial custom out there what 3 d.

printing can do for them we were talking about speed are we fast enough and printing we're talking about precision is that what's coming out of the machine really what we want is a repeat of 0 are we getting the same part over and over again this is what the customer of the industrial customer wants and i think we all agree there's been great disappointment around it then that we're going to change today thanks to some applications many kinds of 3 d. printing. a still team slow to get a precise answer too expensive but improvements are under way. to new big rep printers work up to 10 times faster than the old ones printing speed is the key to making 3 d. technology more profitable. and carbon fiber materials can make the printout smudgy rable in fact a u.s. firm called carbon based near san francisco has teamed up with addie das to make

souls' 1st bush use addie das is a pioneer in the use of technology and its products. the co-founder and chairman of carbons board joseph di simone invented a process to tell out for the mass production of custom made component of. his company's partnership with addie does is a big step forward no one's ever taking 3 d. printing to high volume adidas represented a seminal moment i would argue in the history of industry where we've got volumes that now allows the have a cost down curve. just like injection molding. this process could present a cost effective alternative to conventional mass production methods 2 years ago it took more than 2 hours to print a shoe soles like this one now it takes just 30 minutes. that's all while the 3 d. printing world the government $10000000000.00 prototype in world. 2 or

$300000000000.00 manufacturing job or not so far that's just division the great structure of 3 d. shoes so cannot yet be fully customized. and production will not be relocated to germany where it is based the printed so much to factories in asia where the shoes are assembled. there right now this is not a particularly sustainable production model but that could change in future. little sustainability that's a combination of things one is the materials action the other one is mitigating supply chains. right and having parts on demand or local for local production but it goes well beyond that we've had some breakthroughs now where we can get into bio based feedstocks. compensate mainly print with polymer residence that's

a petroleum so a light sensitive materials enable the company to make products with complex structures. but it's also working on ways to make the product. going to do it that all your think show they set targets out in the next 10 years or less to have shoes that are recyclable and we have the ability to deliver here at the frankfurt trade fair such visions of. printing sound like a welcome development. but how likely are they to be realized. economist or. skeptical about the promise from me. these are mainly beige and so our hopes for the future at this point there's not much evidence that more sustainability is really being achieved by sea. petro works at the institute for ecological economic research in berlin the institute demist

r.t. on whether immobile phone case printed at home in germany is more environmentally friendly than one mass produced in asia and found out that they're about the same. that's because the lowest c o 2 emissions from local 3 d. printing are upset by the high energy consumption of the printing machines. this process is neither particularly sustainable nor economical but it can be profitable for some companies under certain conditions you want to name companies can generally make money on expensive 3 d. printing projects only if they can speed up or streamline production still they'll use fewer materials and some products could be recycled even if their custom age. we've come to the reflow recycling company in amsterdam to find out whether 3 d.

printing production really is sustainable about 80 percent of printed products are made of plastic and then a fraction of them are recyclable or biodegradable this machinery float discarded plastic bottles into plastic filament that can be used for printing the granules come from the bottles the material is suitable for 3 d. printing and it's cheap. filaments from reflow we use to build the walls of a shop in london that sells fashions made from recyclable materials sustainability is often good for business but not everyone is willing to pay more for these products so reflow sells its recycled filaments at the same price as its competitors whose products are less to stay nable. industry is interesting because they see that consumers are asking for it right in

big macroeconomic friend. and industry this will just have to follow for example reflow supplies 3 d. material to a company that makes sun glasses this would replace an entire block of raw plastic from which the frames and normally melts that cuts down on plastic. reflow recycling technology is already being used in several other countries. in india plastic bottles picked up from garbage dumps can be converted into plastic filaments for 3 d. printing and those who collect the bottles can and some extra income. this technology can help to enhance local value added cycle all over the world converting guarded plastic it's a useful product. this 3 d. printing industry is expanding rapidly and growing ever faster and more efficient but

it will be some time before we see the promise improvements like short supply chains reductions in over production the elimination of warehouses for better parts and the use of recyclable materials in closed loop. hole that will require a lot of new investment. from. the bullet.

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