00 Ningbo enterprises taste 3D printing technology
Time: 2013-01-09 Source: Ningbo Daily
Executive Summary 3D printing technology is one of the major symbols of the third industrial revolution, this world's leading technology has been settled in Ningbo and the Feng Creative Square for more than a year, the cumulative total of services to more than 300 enterprises, it is the first time in the world that the company has been in Ningbo. It has subverted the traditional manufacturing process of industrial products, and become a "magic wand" that can quickly turn creative designs into physical products.
January 8 afternoon, in Ningbo and Feng rapid prototyping center, the staff started the 3D printer button, about one and a half hours, a set of complex data in the computer will be transformed into a medical device parts, real in front of everyone.
3D printing technology is one of the major symbols of the third industrial revolution, the world's leading technology settled in Ningbo and Feng Creative Square has been more than a year, the cumulative service of more than 300 companies, which subverted the traditional manufacturing process of industrial products, creative design into a product quickly physical "magic wand".
According to the traditional method, from the design drawings to the product in kind, through the drawing, mold making, injection molding and so on seven or eight processes, time-consuming and laborious. 2011 the end of the year, and the abundant creative square invested more than 5 million yuan, the introduction of two advanced laser rapid prototyping machine, and the introduction of Shenzhen's technical service team, for the park's industrial design enterprise services.
Yesterday, I saw in the rapid prototyping center of Hefeng, two 3D printers resin tank full of liquid resin, under computer control, the laser according to the parameters of the product cross-section layer by layer scanning, scanning the area of the resin layer by layer curing, a delicate product jumped out.
"Compared with traditional molding technology, 3D printing technology costs only a few hundred dollars and shortens the time by more than half." Xu Fang, head of the center, said that especially some complex parts with irregular interior are impossible to make with traditional molds, but 3D printing is completely unrestricted.
Hefeng Creative Square, a foreign-funded design agency designed a new tractor, the manufacturer in order to inspect the actual effect of the product, found the rapid prototyping center. It took the center half a month to "print" the tractor at a 1:1 ratio, whereas it used to take two months to make such a model.
Using 3D printing technology to "print" the tractor model at a ratio of 1:1
3D printing is not just about models. An auto parts company in Yuyao City needs to provide foreign investors with 18 sets of motorcycle instrument panels within 10 days, each set consists of more than 20 parts, according to the traditional way of production, at least 20 days. The two 3D printers at the Hefeng Rapid Prototyping Center worked overtime to provide the perfect product in just eight days.
Over the past year, and the Feng rapid prototyping center "print" out the products, small to daily life in the pots and pans, large electrical products and automotive parts, charge "printing fees" of more than 1.8 million yuan, for the city's more than 300 manufacturing The city's more than 300 manufacturing enterprises to provide "no mold manufacturing" services.
"3D printing can not only be used to verify the designer's design, to provide a physical display, but also as a subsequent production of the mother mold." The person in charge of the Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology said, as the National Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Research Center Ningbo Demonstration Center, and the Feng rapid prototyping center will become a "Ningbo Smart Manufacturing" a powerful booster.