3D printing is usually realized by a material printer using digital technology. It is often used in mold manufacturing, industrial design and other fields to make models, and then gradually used in the direct manufacturing of some products. Parts already printed with this technology.
There are essential differences between 3D printing technology and traditional manufacturing technology. Traditional mechanical manufacturing is based on cutting, drilling, milling, grinding, casting, forging and other basic processes, and the manufacture of workpieces can generally be completed through the combination of multiple processes. 3D printing technology is an integrated molding technology, adhering to the core principle of "layered manufacturing and layered superposition". The 3D printer can complete the manufacture of the whole workpiece. What about the development of 3D printers in China?
1 and the development of 3D printing industry has accelerated.
China has great market potential. Starting from 20 10, the overall revenue of the 3D printing industry entered an accelerated period. In 20 12, the global 3D printing revenue was about 2.204 billion US dollars, mainly including equipment, materials and services, which was 28.6% higher than that of 20171400 million US dollars. 20 1 1 and 20 10, with growth rates of 29.4% and 24. 1% respectively. It is expected that the overall growth rate of the industry will continue to be around 20%. In terms of 3D printing equipment and materials, the revenue in 20 12 was about 1003 million, which was 20.3% higher than the 834 million in 2010, with growth rates of 2010 respectively. In terms of 3D printing service revenue, the annual growth rates of 20 10, 201and 20 12 were 25.3%, 30.7% and 36.6% respectively, and the revenue growth showed an accelerating trend.
The report "20 15-2020 Competition Pattern and Development Prospect of 3D Printing Industry in China" released by China Lecture Hall shows that the domestic 3D printing market is in its infancy, and some enterprises are involved in 3D printing materials, important parts of printing systems, printing machines, printing orders for industrial supplies, consumer-grade printing shops and other fields. With the rapid development of 3D printing in the world, the domestic 3D printing market will reach16 of the global scale (which is the global proportion of many domestic industries), and the market potential is huge. With the steady development of macro-economy, the increasing popularity of network and intelligent terminals, with the unique additive manufacturing concept and personalized production advantages, 3D printing will attract many users and form a huge consumer group. As a result, the 3D printing industry has shown a sustained and prosperous development trend, the market space has been expanding, and the development speed has gradually accelerated.
2.3D printing service has a bright future.
In the three industrial chain links of equipment, materials and services, the current revenue accounts for three points of the world. Take the first quarter report of 20 14 of American 3D Systems Company as an example. Equipment, materials and services accounted for 4 1%, 27% and 32% of the income respectively. As far as China is concerned, finished product manufacturing service will be the easiest and fastest developing link in the additive manufacturing industry chain. The application permeability of additive manufacturing in China is significantly different from that in Europe and America. The important reason is that terminal manufacturers are not familiar with additive manufacturing technology and are unwilling to spend a lot of money on equipment, which provides great market opportunities for service providers.
In the case that the equipment, materials and other links are far from the international technical level, the service link has low requirements for basic research reserves and low entry threshold. What is needed is to explore the needs of users, which is in line with the competitive advantage of local enterprises. Foreign-funded equipment enterprises also hope to promote their own equipment and technology through the channels of domestic local service providers and enhance the penetration rate of additive manufacturing in various application fields. Service providers will play an important role as cultivators and promoters of the domestic additive manufacturing market.
Therefore, catering to the rapid development of Internet and the rising trend of C2B mode, it is a feasible choice for China 3D printing enterprises to build a 3D printing service cloud platform with services as the starting point, which will become a link between equipment vendors, material vendors, designers and users, and provide high-value proprietary 3D printing services for industrial enterprises and consumer fields. On this platform, both industrial users and consumer users can quickly print out their own designs and ideas, thus breaking through the limitations of traditional industrial manufacturing, promoting manufacturing with demand, meeting the needs of personalized life with manufacturing, and leading a new round of industrial transformation.
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