As a research scholar from the Mechanical Engineering Domain, "I have always been fascinated with ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY (3D printing) and also fixed this as my research area. Thanks for the amazing documentary DW. In future, we need more & more documentaries from DW in this area. Thank You.
I’m kicking myself in the butt right now because I didn’t start to try and learn about this years ago when I first saw 3d printers becoming available to average consumers. I just started two weeks ago. I failed so bad. lol
3D printing is return of that custom manufacturing that existed before industrial revolution, with a modern twist. It works also nice in home environment, i have printed broken hinge on my moms trashcan.
@@abhisheksopariwala7930 No, it was plastic hinges, small trashcan for kitchen. Cheapest metal printers are in range of about 100-150k $ and printing hinges for trashcan is not good use for them ;D
Hobbyists are really buying up 3d printers faster than most people realize. I work at a place that sells computer electronics, and the Ender 3 Pro printers sell like hotcakes! There are other industrial printers we carry that have a hefty price tag but they print with just about any material -- 3d printing is definitely the future.
How much electricity use is there for x number of 3D printers at an average company? And how is the electricity produced? Seems like that alone might offset any benefit...? Is it more or less than traditional manufacturing methods?
You'll never truly appreciate the absolute MASTERPIECE a 3d printer can make until you've designed parts for plastic injection. Suddenly almost no geometry is forbidden, you can make things INSIDE OTHER THINGS. I cant overstate my happiness
That was the basis for the original RepRap project that kicked off the entire home 3D printing thing and now most home 3D printers are derivatives of these designs one way or another. Self replicability didn't really survive though, Prusa is the only 3D printer seller that still does it in any capacity and even there it's almost decorative.
I started printing a 3-axis Tourbillon movement on FDM with 99 parts, 35 printed in PLA, 51 metal screws, 7 precision bearings in 2 sizes, & 3 metal rods shafts for bearings to enable precision in the movement / from thingiverse / Amazing what even a cheaper FDM PLA setup like Prusa Mini can create // slower speeds makes cleaner prints for high precision gears etc // I get good results at 220 C for layer bonding on Prusa Mini with regular PLA // Happy 3D printing // PLA really fun because its biodegradable & mostly made from cornstarch as pointed out in the video //
I live out of a room & do not have a machine shop to make a high precision metal tourbillion movement for fun // but making it bigger out of PLA for fun great DIY project!
I have been designing and building plastic injection molds for the medical industry for the last 26 years. I have been designing and 3d printing at home as a hobby for the last 2 years. As soon as 3d printing becomes either scalable or much much faster through technological advances we will see a paradigm shift in manufacturing. We are currently making water cooled cores that are made from a single piece of 304 stainless steel with a layer being printed and machined in the same machine. Combining the 2 processes in 1 machine tool allows us to manufacture geometry that would be cost prohibitive otherwise. I'm looking forward to the future!
Fun fact: technological advancement of the FDM 3D printing technology has been held back by at least 10 years because of the patents on the original inventions, machines were sold by that company with 6 digit price tags and kept overpriced until patents expired and only then low cost 3 digit machines took off. Yay humanity unite!
Yeah don't innovate,because it will be used by others! But your joke aside, after the patents expired we had to wait ~10 years for affordable printers, because the hardware was too expensive.
Hi @Nabham Gupta, Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts on 3D printing. :-) We hope you find more content that interests you on our channel. For specific topics, check out our playlists. Best, The DW Documentary Team
DW#1 & THE Best. My humble wish is that DW would make the presentation about 3D PRINTING as a Bio3DPrinting. It is selfexplenatory ; I mean application of 3D BioPrinting in Dentistry plus all fields of medical applications, including bones and organs. Nano3DPrinting can be the next advanced technology and biotechnology. Today's fantasies are tomorrow's inventions or necessary products of daily living.
Hi Junior Jetseter, thx for your huge compliment and your proposal! There is yet no plan to do such a topic, but that might change. Stay tuned & find out
In the early days of the internet in the U.S., a search engine named Lycos ran ads in which a person would say, "Hey Lycos, get me some swim fins!" and the fins would roll out of a conventional ink printer. Everyone understood that they would actually arrive via delivery service. However, that ad may have been more prescient than they realized!
Whilst 3D Printing is a "great addition" to the workplace ; this Video overstates its importance & exaggerates its place in the Manufacturing sector. Many products can be cast or stampped out in seconds or CNC machined in a fraction of the time it takes to 3D print it. So, 3D Printing is good in one sense "but" in most instances; too slow for mainstream manufacturing - more like R & D "one off" components & for hobbyists it's great.
When they were talking about ghost guns it wasn’t a new concept to make ghost guns they did wood ghost guns and various other materials also. It’s just 3d printing makes it easier for people who don’t know much about guns to easily produce it. The problem with making ghost guns using 3d printing. The 3d printed ghost guns are usually one shot guns or you need a heavy duty printer to print PC material which could be in the price range of a new car.
I know they included it just for shock value but does anyone know what system they used for the color+clear print process at 15:58 because if it's anything but "we printed the organs and a negative then cast it in resin" I'd be seriously impressed. I've never seen clears solids that clear on anything.
3d printing guns is misunderstood and misrepresented in this piece. The fact is a skilled craftsman can make a gun in his home shop with a relatively limited amount of tools and always has been able to.
@@SemGabelko True, but I'd still say that the simple water pipe "slam shotgun" you can make from hardware store materials is much more reliable and dangerous than anything I can print on my FDM, even with nylon or fiber filaments. You do still need a decent bit of non printed parts of you want anything to fire more than a few times. I think anyone that can make a serviceable firearm on a printer already has the skills to make something without it.
great job with documentary :) i personally have company where we have been developing ultralight technology for 3d printing of family houses :) with approx use 30 tons of plastic waste for each house :)
3D printing should stick to its core competencies - prototyping and on demand low volume parts. And these on demand shops should be full service with 3D printing, 5-axis milling, CNC machines, micromachining, laser cutting, carbon fiber fabrication, heat treatments, coatings, electronics, hydraulics, and pneumatics integration.
I find that these videos touting 3D printing manage to consistently do three things: state the true benefits of 3D printing, mistakenly allow CEOs and various middle managers to obfuscate the true benefits of 3D printing using a lot of flowery business jargon and bold predictions, and act as though no improvements have been made to other manufacturing processes during the last 50 years. Until this technology advances way beyond where it is today, the real benefits of 3D printing are prototyping and manufacturing previously impossible-to-produce shapes. Those points are clear in this video, but the narration would have us believe that in short time we will have no skilled labour and no other manufacturing processes and even secondary industries need to be worried. There is a reason we have machining, welding, stamping, forging, casting, etc. Each of those processes offers its own value to the manufacturing industry. It will never make sense to print 20' bars of steel. It will never make sense to print millions of connecting rods.
The promise of 3D printing to revolutionize manufacturing is both exciting and challenging. This documentary delves into the potential of this innovative technology to save resources, create efficient structures, and even lead to sustainable materials. Thanks to the documentary for illuminating the path to a more sustainable and efficient future.
Thanks for this DW, certainly lots for thought, perhaps like the toaster or washing machine there'll be one in every home. The motorbike's a clever bit of engineering as is so much in this film, especially the entire human model printed in one go (15:59) and the aluminium printing but never realised how small a part it plays in global sales, although if it takes 900 hours to make one wall you might see why. The Israeli reporter that smuggled the plastic gun into the parliament building should be praised for showing up how vulnerable the security was, instead he was lambasted for it. Every day, when washing up we also wash the plastic, dry it out and stuff it into a clean washed plastic bottle (plus lid) and stuff it in with a poker. Been doing this in our family for a few years now and probably have about half a ton bag of them to date, it also gives my 85 year old mum a bit more purpose in her life and a little less rubbish for the landfill. Wouldn't it be great if you could use all mixed waste plastic for 3D printing. Perhaps those bottles could be put into the printer like cartridges in a pen. Of course I realise that there are a zillion types of plastic that cannot be combined, but in my astoundingly amazing printer, all the plastic is melted and combined into one polymer pool. Alternatively a lot of our packing and wrapping could be made from industrial hemp and farmers could be subsidised to grow the stuff instead of the crops grown simply to fill the quota for the heavily subsidised and uneconomic biodigester built near my home in SW England. Hemp need no pesticides, herbicides or fertiliser because it grows like a weed and has 1000 uses. In the 1900's it was compulsory to grow hemp on US farms and all the ropes and rigging of the WW1 Royal Navy fleet was made from hemp.
The downside to 3D printing, as mentioned in the video, is that it is slow and to mass-produce items would be difficult. It does however have an advantage over say, injection printing which has to have a large mold made for the parts to be made from which of course takes time. Once made though it can produce parts without too much problem over and over again. People having 3D printers in the home would reduce the need for shipping and delivery which would, of course, cut down emissions. The downside to that is that you ( The owner of the printer ) would need to make sure you have the right material for the item being printed which might also take time and once again, would be needed to be delivered to you and so would again, add to emissions. It's clear that there are good and bad points about all the options available and they seem to come close to one another on production costs, emissions etc.
@@autohmae Companies interested in remaining competitive are already doing this. The others will scoff, but early adopters will have the last laugh. Note all of those who mocked "dreamers" and futurists in, say... ... the personal computer industry... ... e-commerce... ... smart phone [hardware + software] development... It's actually shocking just how many of "the big ones" can maintain their egos even with so much archived precedence screaming at them to change steer their ships away from their own arrogant doom.
@@samuelthompson8009 A big company like, for example, Intel can take some years to re-invent themselves because they have sooo much cash "lying around". It's like someone having made enough money to 'take a few years of sabbatical year'
nope, 3D printing is fast and is becoming wide spread, sometime within the near future (next 40 years) it will be possible to print large objects in minutes most likely and will end shops and such, just as the internet is displacing retail stores now
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Great technology... I remember back in 1997 when i was bidding to manufacture missile parts through boeings defence department.... the challenge was to reduce the tooling costs I had the idea of using injection molding (die cast) and was laughed at by venture investors regarding purchasing an injection molding already established to manufacture the 6,000 sensor support structure pieces at a cost of about 33,000 each. The injection molding would have lowered the cost per unit to about less then 7,000 dollars each I lost the bids due to the time frame in placing the bids.... and around 2002 boeing sent memos to all suppliers.. 2 quotes.. hard tooling and injection molding :) Take the old machines that will become useless and send them to third world countries with cheap labor
There are a lot of engineered plastics that cant be 3d printed...cast plastics & pultrusion all add different characteristics that are needed for a good part
There will be a time when you'll lookup whatever you need to buy on line. Then tell your local ZIPPY PRINT to make it. Drive like a mile to a pint/un-print mini maker. Bring in your old part so it can be un-made and pick up the new part.
as their cost of living and per capita increases, labor becomes more expensive while this technology gradually becomes cheaper. there will cross a point that human manufacturing will be more expensive than the 3D printing /automated printing manufacturing. ... in theory of course. real world can introduce any random factors like coronavirus, wars, tariffs, politics, reseource battles, etc.
@@TK-gd9td Truth. Looking forward to the day when we all have a desktop replicator. Download a file from the internet, press a button and it atomically assembles anything in seconds. Why go get coffee in a coffee shop when you could simply replicate the glass containing hot coffee right there on your desktop in seconds?
Injection molding is not only cheaper but it is also significantly faster. A large mold can be made in 60 second with injection molding while it may take days or weeks on a 3d printer.
3D "Printing" technology has been around for nearly 100 years. It just wasn't look at this way in the past. The earliest CNC milling machine came into the world during T-Ford Era. Of course, they weren't digital machines, but manually moved around, hammered, finished, molded etc. Than you had pseudo NC machines around the 40's-50's. Than came the digital CNC of the 60-70's. Very simple codes creating quite complex objects in 2 and 3 Axis. Than in the 80-90's came industrial sized 3D 'printers' but they weren't FDM style - more so resin via UV laser or laser sintering. 3D printing is truly a wonderful technology and hobby / profession and i hope it expands into every corner of the world.
3D printing is only going to work economically if: 1. It can't be molded, be it design or material. 2. Unifies many parts into a single part in a practical way 3. Some printers might be able to give finer details than molding.
@O T filaments and 3d printers from china, I'm now choosing to support other countries but i suspect it's not that easy getting away from china I can buy filaments from north america or Europe but other components likely will still be made in china with a different sticker on.
3d printers are great for prototypes or low volume with no tooling costs. However, a plastic injection machine takes seconds to mold a product, 3d printers take longer just to warm up. Anyone who states traditional plastic injection machines are going away in lieu of 3d printers either don’t understand the technologies (and alternatives like a injection machine) or is a reporter trying to dramatic to create a clickbait headline.
yes so true! they have been showing up technologies as SLA like faster than FFF when is the opposite and it has restrictions within large scale prototypes.I have my bet more to medical aplications so i'm being investing on organic printing research , that's where the real future goes as well with metal parts for Aeronautics,where the request for special designs is more useful than having a toothbrush with cute patterns or some nike's snickers with a sole 10 more expensive than the traditional ones.
3d-printing is way more complicated thing. It allows you to make heterogeneous structures. Femtosecond projection TPL is a volumetric 3d-printing technology to work at nanoscopic scale.
Recently my clients were trying to print parts supposed to be cut from sheet of metal. It's terrible: huge amount of supports and finally broken parts, lack of precision, waste of material.
There was a few seconds in the video about 3D printing aluminum , but why nothing about 3D printing individualized/mass produced steel parts/assemblies ? If 3D printing factories are to take off close to where the products are needed like people hope , efficient 3D priniting of steel will play a huge role in accomplishing this goal since so many s as autimotive/building construction/vessel parts are obviously manufactured from steel
amazing reportage, thx a lot for the precious content. therefore, the problem is and will long be the same again and again... as long as people invest, meaning those with the power of investment, we'll be depending on their choices and decisions, to make things happen... the problem with plastic recycling is the very sad truth about it.
The section at 22:00 which describes an economist comparing phone case domestic printing versus mass production in Asia concluded both were equivalent because if the higher energy usage and cost of the domestic printer. But I can choose to print my parts when my roof is generating solar power effectively reducing the marginal cost of printing to zero. The economist might need to consider a wider context than mass production.
There is no other context. Injected parts are orders of magnitude cheaper. They are stronger, more dimensional accurate and efficiently made. This idea of people printing their own stuff is ludicrous. People want to buy a product and not worry about all the problems of making one. Adjusting parameters, leveling beds, taking care of the machine and so on. But again, 3d printed parts compared to injected parts don't stand a chance. In the time it takes you to print a part you could have injected a thousand. Cheers.
@@MrFujinko But in a domestic context I don't need a thousand, I only need one and I want it styled as I wish when I wish it, not be restricted to what some manufacturer wishes to impose on me nor when they will make me wait to buy it. And what happens to all the injection molded ones that never sell, they are pure waste of material and energy. Injected molded parts may be cheaper to make but they have to be shipped and generate profits all along the chain so are not cheaper to buy. 3D Printing also allows you to do things you could never do with injection molding such as composite materials, composite structures, eg embedding electronics and other elements within the object, low entry costs, prototyping and low unit runs, fewer constrains on materials and geometries, correct mistakes at no additional cost as you go along. Another property of the process is that the 3D Printer can scale from very small to very large, large enough to print a house.
As a research scholar from the Mechanical Engineering Domain, "I have always been fascinated with ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY (3D printing) and also fixed this as my research area. Thanks for the amazing documentary DW. In future, we need more & more documentaries from DW in this area. Thank You.
I’m kicking myself in the butt right now because I didn’t start to try and learn about this years ago when I first saw 3d printers becoming available to average consumers.
I just started two weeks ago. I failed so bad. lol
3D printing is return of that custom manufacturing that existed before industrial revolution, with a modern twist. It works also nice in home environment, i have printed broken hinge on my moms trashcan.
Did you print metal hinges??
@@abhisheksopariwala7930 No, it was plastic hinges, small trashcan for kitchen. Cheapest metal printers are in range of about 100-150k $ and printing hinges for trashcan is not good use for them ;D
I did a similar thing with brackets for my roman blind, designed in tinkercad.
@@majstor76 : how much did your 3D printer cost?
@@majstor76 can you please provide me some information regarding 3d metal printer machine manufacturers?
Hobbyists are really buying up 3d printers faster than most people realize. I work at a place that sells computer electronics, and the Ender 3 Pro printers sell like hotcakes! There are other industrial printers we carry that have a hefty price tag but they print with just about any material -- 3d printing is definitely the future.
Hi Julie, thx for sharing your experience, stay tuned & enjoy!
How much electricity use is there for x number of 3D printers at an average company? And how is the electricity produced? Seems like that alone might offset any benefit...? Is it more or less than traditional manufacturing methods?
I want to get one but I don’t really know how much I’m going to use it.
@@inorganicintelligence-IoI average hobby printer draws about 70+ W per h. It can get higher depending on size of printer/ type of filament etc.
I have an Ender 3
You'll never truly appreciate the absolute MASTERPIECE a 3d printer can make until you've designed parts for plastic injection. Suddenly almost no geometry is forbidden, you can make things INSIDE OTHER THINGS. I cant overstate my happiness
True, print in place chains feels like magic.
I LOVE GEEKS !!!
I just got one today... its now 3:30AM and here i am... printing away... and finding more stuff to print lol
@@onebluguy2692 have fun man, good luck
There are several limitations. These are down to gravity, anisotropy in the finished product and most importantly, lack of scalability.
Excellent work on this video! 👍🏻
How to get a free 3D printer:
Step 1: Buy 3D printer
Step 2: Print 3D printer
Step 3: Return original 3D printer
3D problems require 3D solutions
That was the basis for the original RepRap project that kicked off the entire home 3D printing thing and now most home 3D printers are derivatives of these designs one way or another.
Self replicability didn't really survive though, Prusa is the only 3D printer seller that still does it in any capacity and even there it's almost decorative.
Search Prusa, their 3D printers are mostly printed by them, their farms are amazing.
So you will printer out nema motors and a controller board before returning the print huh ?
LOL
I started printing a 3-axis Tourbillon movement on FDM with 99 parts, 35 printed in PLA, 51 metal screws, 7 precision bearings in 2 sizes, & 3 metal rods shafts for bearings to enable precision in the movement / from thingiverse / Amazing what even a cheaper FDM PLA setup like Prusa Mini can create // slower speeds makes cleaner prints for high precision gears etc // I get good results at 220 C for layer bonding on Prusa Mini with regular PLA // Happy 3D printing // PLA really fun because its biodegradable & mostly made from cornstarch as pointed out in the video //
I live out of a room & do not have a machine shop to make a high precision metal tourbillion movement for fun // but making it bigger out of PLA for fun great DIY project!
Did you design it yourself or did you get the STLs from somewhere?
Great video. Didn't need to bit about the liberator gun but very good none the less.
The part where used plastics are being reused as filaments for 3D printers to make sustainable eyeglass frames & other things is pretty sweet
I have been designing and building plastic injection molds for the medical industry for the last 26 years. I have been designing and 3d printing at home as a hobby for the last 2 years. As soon as 3d printing becomes either scalable or much much faster through technological advances we will see a paradigm shift in manufacturing. We are currently making water cooled cores that are made from a single piece of 304 stainless steel with a layer being printed and machined in the same machine. Combining the 2 processes in 1 machine tool allows us to manufacture geometry that would be cost prohibitive otherwise. I'm looking forward to the future!
Amazing documentary ! really i want to congratulate the team and the work put to make this research possible!! very valuable indeed.
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It's not your documentary lmao, are you blurring the logo on the screen because you own it? Please. @@DWDocumentary
Great documentary. Will be cool to rewatch this in 10 years time to see what gains were made and achieved
Thanks for watching!
The technology is advancing at an exponential rate
La liviandad del enfoque de los reportes de DW llama poderosamente la atencion
3D printing is great for small volume custom pieces... but for mass manufacturing, injection molding can't be beaten, at the moment.
yes it can be if you have a factory full of 3d printers ,times by, hundreds of these factories.
Fun fact: technological advancement of the FDM 3D printing technology has been held back by at least 10 years because of the patents on the original inventions, machines were sold by that company with 6 digit price tags and kept overpriced until patents expired and only then low cost 3 digit machines took off.
Yay humanity unite!
Yeah don't innovate,because it will be used by others! But your joke aside, after the patents expired we had to wait ~10 years for affordable printers, because the hardware was too expensive.
3d printing is awesome👌🏻 Flexibility in design and prototype process 😃😁 Nice documentary 🤩
Hi @Nabham Gupta,
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts on 3D printing. :-) We hope you find more content that interests you on our channel. For specific topics, check out our playlists.
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Excelent documentary! :D
DW#1 & THE Best.
My humble wish is that DW would make the presentation about 3D PRINTING as a Bio3DPrinting. It is selfexplenatory ; I mean application of 3D BioPrinting in Dentistry plus all fields of medical applications, including bones and organs.
Nano3DPrinting can be the next advanced technology and biotechnology.
Today's fantasies are tomorrow's inventions or necessary products of daily living.
Hi Junior Jetseter, thx for your huge compliment and your proposal! There is yet no plan to do such a topic, but that might change. Stay tuned & find out
And this proves we really are nothing more than robots, with a conscience (perhaps) and even rarer, a soul. How do we 3D print that?
@@CatherineSTodd With Nanotech
DW reportes did an amazing job again! They made me feel like I actually understand now something about technology! 😆
the edm music inserted near the end is hilarious lmfao
Thanks for the video
Lou rassy statement -- "moving parts with the power of technology, now at the speed of light." Brilliant!
In the early days of the internet in the U.S., a search engine named Lycos ran ads in which a person would say, "Hey Lycos, get me some swim fins!" and the fins would roll out of a conventional ink printer. Everyone understood that they would actually arrive via delivery service. However, that ad may have been more prescient than they realized!
Great job DW! I'm a fan of your work.
Thanks for watching! We're glad you like our content. :)
This documentary is a gold mine of business slogans
Wanderful doc congrats!!!!!
Amazing!
great video
Whilst 3D Printing is a "great addition" to the workplace ; this Video overstates its importance & exaggerates its place in the Manufacturing sector. Many products can be cast or stampped out in seconds or CNC machined in a fraction of the time it takes to 3D print it. So, 3D Printing is good in one sense "but" in most instances; too slow for mainstream manufacturing - more like R & D "one off" components & for hobbyists it's great.
When they were talking about ghost guns it wasn’t a new concept to make ghost guns they did wood ghost guns and various other materials also. It’s just 3d printing makes it easier for people who don’t know much about guns to easily produce it. The problem with making ghost guns using 3d printing. The 3d printed ghost guns are usually one shot guns or you need a heavy duty printer to print PC material which could be in the price range of a new car.
Ghost guns is a made up term
this is incredible
I know they included it just for shock value but does anyone know what system they used for the color+clear print process at 15:58 because if it's anything but "we printed the organs and a negative then cast it in resin" I'd be seriously impressed. I've never seen clears solids that clear on anything.
Congrats my teacher made us watch this for graphic communication! Since we’re all off today we got sent the link and I was crying when I heard it all-
Awesome video!
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Thats great, can make any shape of product without any casting or plastic injection process...
Interesting information, 3D printers are growing so fast..
3d printing guns is misunderstood and misrepresented in this piece. The fact is a skilled craftsman can make a gun in his home shop with a relatively limited amount of tools and always has been able to.
True!
Not everyone is a skilled craftsman
@@SemGabelko True, but I'd still say that the simple water pipe "slam shotgun" you can make from hardware store materials is much more reliable and dangerous than anything I can print on my FDM, even with nylon or fiber filaments. You do still need a decent bit of non printed parts of you want anything to fire more than a few times. I think anyone that can make a serviceable firearm on a printer already has the skills to make something without it.
@@SemGabelko google homebrew guns. Believe me most of that stuff works and skilled craftsmanship had nothing to do with it.
Exactly. And that journalist would be more likely to blow his hand off than hit the prime minister from that distance.
Thanks for sharing
great job with documentary :) i personally have company where we have been developing ultralight technology for 3d printing of family houses :) with approx use 30 tons of plastic waste for each house :)
impresive
3D printing should stick to its core competencies - prototyping and on demand low volume parts. And these on demand shops should be full service with 3D printing, 5-axis milling, CNC machines, micromachining, laser cutting, carbon fiber fabrication, heat treatments, coatings, electronics, hydraulics, and pneumatics integration.
Its like you are saying the computer and mobile phone are only meant for business use. Tech evolves. Get used to it.
Who cares how long it takes to print? Look at that thing go! We should base our manufacturing on hobbyist enthusiasm.
Absolutely fascinating watch.
Future of 3D printing is just immense.
Sir which Standard is used for 3D printed insole compression test
@DWDocumentary
Wow.... didn't expect to see my i3 Mega being used by a company like Airbus!
Me too, great advertisement for them
Amazing
Amazon you need to get into this immediately please
It is excellent work!
I have always been fascinated with 3D printing. Thanks for the amazing documentary DW.
look for a document called Print the legend on netflix.
3D printing is totally dope!
WOW.... how big would that cladding be here in Australia..., MASSIVE.
Aaaaaa yesss 💥✨ welcome to the Future 🤖🛰🛸✨
Ray Kurzweil predicted this back in 2009. Once a product is digitized it will advance at an exponential rate.
Muito bom parabéns
I find that these videos touting 3D printing manage to consistently do three things: state the true benefits of 3D printing, mistakenly allow CEOs and various middle managers to obfuscate the true benefits of 3D printing using a lot of flowery business jargon and bold predictions, and act as though no improvements have been made to other manufacturing processes during the last 50 years.
Until this technology advances way beyond where it is today, the real benefits of 3D printing are prototyping and manufacturing previously impossible-to-produce shapes. Those points are clear in this video, but the narration would have us believe that in short time we will have no skilled labour and no other manufacturing processes and even secondary industries need to be worried.
There is a reason we have machining, welding, stamping, forging, casting, etc. Each of those processes offers its own value to the manufacturing industry. It will never make sense to print 20' bars of steel. It will never make sense to print millions of connecting rods.
The promise of 3D printing to revolutionize manufacturing is both exciting and challenging. This documentary delves into the potential of this innovative technology to save resources, create efficient structures, and even lead to sustainable materials. Thanks to the documentary for illuminating the path to a more sustainable and efficient future.
In the future every home will have 3D printers
And the home itself will be 3d printed too! And the printer! ;)
its already happens. lol
Homes will be made with 3 d printers
So glad to see this, thx!!
It's been around awhile now , I've been doing it for over 12 years . It should have been everywhere already , late is better then never.
Thanks for this DW, certainly lots for thought, perhaps like the toaster or washing machine there'll be one in every home.
The motorbike's a clever bit of engineering as is so much in this film, especially the entire human model printed in one go (15:59) and the aluminium printing but never realised how small a part it plays in global sales, although if it takes 900 hours to make one wall you might see why.
The Israeli reporter that smuggled the plastic gun into the parliament building should be praised for showing up how vulnerable the security was, instead he was lambasted for it.
Every day, when washing up we also wash the plastic, dry it out and stuff it into a clean washed plastic bottle (plus lid) and stuff it in with a poker.
Been doing this in our family for a few years now and probably have about half a ton bag of them to date, it also gives my 85 year old mum a bit more purpose in her life and a little less rubbish for the landfill.
Wouldn't it be great if you could use all mixed waste plastic for 3D printing.
Perhaps those bottles could be put into the printer like cartridges in a pen.
Of course I realise that there are a zillion types of plastic that cannot be combined, but in my astoundingly amazing printer, all the plastic is melted and combined into one polymer pool.
Alternatively a lot of our packing and wrapping could be made from industrial hemp and farmers could be subsidised to grow the stuff instead of the crops grown simply to fill the quota for the heavily subsidised and uneconomic biodigester built near my home in SW England.
Hemp need no pesticides, herbicides or fertiliser because it grows like a weed and has 1000 uses.
In the 1900's it was compulsory to grow hemp on US farms and all the ropes and rigging of the WW1 Royal Navy fleet was made from hemp.
The downside to 3D printing, as mentioned in the video, is that it is slow and to mass-produce items would be difficult.
It does however have an advantage over say, injection printing which has to have a large mold made for the parts to be made from which of course takes time.
Once made though it can produce parts without too much problem over and over again.
People having 3D printers in the home would reduce the need for shipping and delivery which would, of course, cut down emissions.
The downside to that is that you ( The owner of the printer ) would need to make sure you have the right material for the item being printed which might also take time and once again, would be needed to be delivered to you and so would again, add to emissions.
It's clear that there are good and bad points about all the options available and they seem to come close to one another on production costs, emissions etc.
I wonder how long it will be before it's combined in one manufacturing line, 3d print the mold and do mass production with the mold.
@@autohmae Companies interested in remaining competitive are already doing this. The others will scoff, but early adopters will have the last laugh. Note all of those who mocked "dreamers" and futurists in, say...
... the personal computer industry...
... e-commerce...
... smart phone [hardware + software] development...
It's actually shocking just how many of "the big ones" can maintain their egos even with so much archived precedence screaming at them to change steer their ships away from their own arrogant doom.
@@samuelthompson8009 A big company like, for example, Intel can take some years to re-invent themselves because they have sooo much cash "lying around". It's like someone having made enough money to 'take a few years of sabbatical year'
nope, 3D printing is fast and is becoming wide spread, sometime within the near future (next 40 years) it will be possible to print large objects in minutes most likely and will end shops and such, just as the internet is displacing retail stores now
Have to watch this for EDT hw
Interesting
There are a lot of people who will become unemployee. But that is a upgrading process and we can not resist it.
Adidas is kind of I like specially made in Germany I was wearing a berkenstock
When people talk about 3d printing they don't talk about how it could improve the factories we already have with 3d printed molds
@Peter Breis I think 3d printing is a very young technology like voice recognition in the eighties
When you pair this with tokamak fusion reactors the price and Sustainability will be very attractive but might have to wait a good 10-20 years
@Froggy Noddy yeah thats quite cool aswell and batteries are getting better also
We won't have grid-scale fusion for at least another 100 years.
@@SweBeach2023 do you think so, how comes?
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Great technology...
I remember back in 1997 when i was bidding to manufacture missile parts through boeings defence department.... the challenge was to reduce the tooling costs
I had the idea of using injection molding (die cast) and was laughed at by venture investors regarding purchasing an injection molding already established to manufacture the 6,000 sensor support structure pieces at a cost of about 33,000 each. The injection molding would have lowered the cost per unit to about less then 7,000 dollars each
I lost the bids due to the time frame in placing the bids.... and around 2002 boeing sent memos to all suppliers.. 2 quotes.. hard tooling and injection molding :)
Take the old machines that will become useless and send them to third world countries with cheap labor
Hi saint r, thx for sharing your experience, stay tuned!
And by having lost those bids, you have less blood on your hands.
I would really like to know how the military uses 3d printing technology
really love 3d printing.
if the 3 D printer could move faster then it could ready be something to have and use in any company
Its amazing one layer printed object
There are a lot of engineered plastics that cant be 3d printed...cast plastics & pultrusion all add different characteristics that are needed for a good part
There will be a time when you'll lookup whatever you need to buy on line. Then tell your local ZIPPY PRINT to make it. Drive like a mile to a pint/un-print mini maker. Bring in your old part so it can be un-made and pick up the new part.
Thanks for such a cool informative episode.love from India
Absolutely gorgeous thumbnail....would really like the STL of this thumbnail mask..
IN SUMMARY:
- 3D Printing is amazing for manufacturing but China is still cheaper lol
as their cost of living and per capita increases, labor becomes more expensive while this technology gradually becomes cheaper. there will cross a point that human manufacturing will be more expensive than the 3D printing /automated printing manufacturing. ... in theory of course. real world can introduce any random factors like coronavirus, wars, tariffs, politics, reseource battles, etc.
@@TK-gd9td Truth. Looking forward to the day when we all have a desktop replicator. Download a file from the internet, press a button and it atomically assembles anything in seconds. Why go get coffee in a coffee shop when you could simply replicate the glass containing hot coffee right there on your desktop in seconds?
Injection molding is not only cheaper but it is also significantly faster. A large mold can be made in 60 second with injection molding while it may take days or weeks on a 3d printer.
@@TK-gd9td China is not the only country with low wages in the world.
In china you have to deal with your tech being stolen
3D "Printing" technology has been around for nearly 100 years.
It just wasn't look at this way in the past.
The earliest CNC milling machine came into the world during T-Ford Era. Of course, they weren't digital machines, but manually moved around, hammered, finished, molded etc.
Than you had pseudo NC machines around the 40's-50's.
Than came the digital CNC of the 60-70's. Very simple codes creating quite complex objects in 2 and 3 Axis.
Than in the 80-90's came industrial sized 3D 'printers' but they weren't FDM style - more so resin via UV laser or laser sintering.
3D printing is truly a wonderful technology and hobby / profession and i hope it expands into every corner of the world.
3D printing is only going to work economically if:
1. It can't be molded, be it design or material.
2. Unifies many parts into a single part in a practical way
3. Some printers might be able to give finer details than molding.
Product durability is the main reason 3d printing has never taken off
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3D printing with newer materials will reduce the need for imports from "you know where."
CHinaa
the only problem is, Most people are buying 3d printers from "you know where" and "you know why"
@O T filaments and 3d printers from china, I'm now choosing to support other countries but i suspect it's not that easy getting away from china I can buy filaments from north america or Europe but other components likely will still be made in china with a different sticker on.
@@patprop74 regretfully guilty! my filaments as well but no more it will be more expensive but the quality will likely be better.
0:27 fast? i bet mean prototype that it take so loong print
Believe me this will be the future of production and product creation. The same way we used Nokia 3310 and now smartphones.
Yesss..NO wasted material or resources
we have been 3d printing cake decorations for years - you just need
a cake
some icing
a bag
a nozzel
3d printers are great for prototypes or low volume with no tooling costs. However, a plastic injection machine takes seconds to mold a product, 3d printers take longer just to warm up. Anyone who states traditional plastic injection machines are going away in lieu of 3d printers either don’t understand the technologies (and alternatives like a injection machine) or is a reporter trying to dramatic to create a clickbait headline.
yes so true! they have been showing up technologies as SLA like faster than FFF when is the opposite and it has restrictions within large scale prototypes.I have my bet more to medical aplications so i'm being investing on organic printing research , that's where the real future goes as well with metal parts for Aeronautics,where the request for special designs is more useful than having a toothbrush with cute patterns or some nike's snickers with a sole 10 more expensive than the traditional ones.
3d-printing is way more complicated thing. It allows you to make heterogeneous structures.
Femtosecond projection TPL is a volumetric 3d-printing technology to work at nanoscopic scale.
It's still in initial stage of development that's why it's better to jump in now
How much does a small injection mold cost.. say to produce a coffee cup like object?
Recently my clients were trying to print parts supposed to be cut from sheet of metal. It's terrible: huge amount of supports and finally broken parts, lack of precision, waste of material.
Zal Tech is kind of cheap there, those Anycubic printers are budget printers...
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There was a few seconds in the video about 3D printing aluminum , but why nothing about 3D printing individualized/mass produced steel parts/assemblies ? If 3D printing factories are to take off close to where the products are needed like people hope , efficient 3D priniting of steel will play a huge role in accomplishing this goal since so many s as autimotive/building construction/vessel parts are obviously manufactured from steel
People were saying a lot of the same stuff about 3D printing 7 or 8 years ago and little seems to have changed since then
Patents started expiring in 2019
Nice
8:03 spare parts on demand.
Vibration frequency and wavelength energy
3 D printing just seems like a way to quickly get a prototype.
Yes, but we really like watching them print, so if it takes 100x times longer to make it that's ok.
There are still a lot of things you can't reasonably prototype with 3d-printers, such as sheet metal structures.
Difficult shapes can be done more economically than conventional manufacturing.
But its no use when it comes to mass manufacturing simple objects.
amazing reportage, thx a lot for the precious content. therefore, the problem is and will long be the same again and again... as long as people invest, meaning those with the power of investment, we'll be depending on their choices and decisions, to make things happen... the problem with plastic recycling is the very sad truth about it.
The section at 22:00 which describes an economist comparing phone case domestic printing versus mass production in Asia concluded both were equivalent because if the higher energy usage and cost of the domestic printer. But I can choose to print my parts when my roof is generating solar power effectively reducing the marginal cost of printing to zero. The economist might need to consider a wider context than mass production.
There is no other context. Injected parts are orders of magnitude cheaper. They are stronger, more dimensional accurate and efficiently made. This idea of people printing their own stuff is ludicrous. People want to buy a product and not worry about all the problems of making one. Adjusting parameters, leveling beds, taking care of the machine and so on.
But again, 3d printed parts compared to injected parts don't stand a chance. In the time it takes you to print a part you could have injected a thousand.
Cheers.
@@MrFujinko But in a domestic context I don't need a thousand, I only need one and I want it styled as I wish when I wish it, not be restricted to what some manufacturer wishes to impose on me nor when they will make me wait to buy it. And what happens to all the injection molded ones that never sell, they are pure waste of material and energy. Injected molded parts may be cheaper to make but they have to be shipped and generate profits all along the chain so are not cheaper to buy. 3D Printing also allows you to do things you could never do with injection molding such as composite materials, composite structures, eg embedding electronics and other elements within the object, low entry costs, prototyping and low unit runs, fewer constrains on materials and geometries, correct mistakes at no additional cost as you go along. Another property of the process is that the 3D Printer can scale from very small to very large, large enough to print a house.