在formnext上获得奖杯后基于创业挑战赛2016上周,柏林3 dprinting software company 3yourmind are now in London and join fellow 3D printing industry company, Big Rep, at the柏林弹出实验室在Soho。
3DPI visited the lab to find out more.
The industrialization of 3D printing is a hot topic this year as announcements from 3D Systems, GE, Materialise, Siemens and others illustrates.
成立于2014年的3年，“针对行业和建筑的智能3D打印解决方案。”他们的软件可以是used by 3D printing bureaus in a similar manner to 3D Hubs or San Francisco’s Fictiv。Optimization tools to automatically repair 3D files are integrated with the software, as are pricing decision tools. The company will also soon offerautomated pricing for 3D printing in metal and are working with 30 3D printing bureaus, including London’s 3D Print UK.
Mobility goes Additive
The company launched a “CAD Plugin to Simplify 3D Printing Orders” called 3D Button in March 2015, but has since pivoted towards the B2B sector. On display at the pop up lab were several examples of a significant cooperation between the startup and Deutsche Bahn, the $40 billion German railway company.
As we reported earlier this year,德意志·巴恩（Deutsche Bahn）正在探索3D打印如何彻底改变其供应链和物流运营。铁路公司在每个大陆都有车队或网络，持有价值超过10亿美元的库存。通过使用3D打印来通过需求替换来降低与组织库存相关的成本移动性的附加项目旨在释放目前汇款的一些资本。
3年brought two swing arms to demonstrate their approach. The older piece, pictured below, is made from iron using traditional methods while the newer looking piece using metal 3D printing and Stainless Steel 316L.
3年have not publicly disclosed the specific 3D printing partner who made the metal part. HoweverDr Hans J. Langer, founder of EOS GmbH Electro-Optical Systems is a lead investor in the software companyandEOS offer Stainless Steel 316L as a 3D printing material.
德国联邦铁路公司正在关注的许多组件s across their business for suitability for 3D printing, surprisingly the certification and qualification process is no less lengthy than that in the aviation industry. As Stefanie Brickwede, project manager at Mobility goes Additive, explained to me during Formnext the safety requirements for railways can even be in excess of those in aerospace due to the higher number of passengers involved and the lack of specialist safety equipment, such as oxygen masks, present on trains.
In addition to the 3D printed swing arm, 3yourmind have also produced a heat exchange to be used on electric trains. A study conducted by Deutsche Bahn revealed that there was an annual requirement for this part of only 10 pieces a year, therefore mass production while initially more cost effective would incur future storage costs. Making the part using a SLS 3D printing process is the proposed solution to eliminating these costs and moving to a Just in Time, warehousing style solution.
A partnership between 3yourmind and Siemens
Also on display in the pop up lab was a 3D printed turbine model made for Siemens. The model not only demonstrates the fine detail available from the 3D printing process, but also provides a way to engage visitors with what is set to be one of the next major developments in 3D printing.
西门子是欧洲最大的工程公司，市值接近1000亿美元，年收入为800亿美元。相比之下，GE的市值为2800亿美元，最新的年收入为1,160亿美元。
The global engineering company have motion control systems and software used by thousands of clients, many who run PLM software Solid Edge. Although details have not been widely published, 3DPI understand that the next release of Solid Edge, ST10, will feature native integration of 3yourmind software.
下个月，您的3年度将前往3D印刷圣地亚哥，在那里他们获得了另一个启动奖。比赛中也是Arfona为牙科和SAN提供3D打印，并使用其硅3D打印服务。
Featured image shows 3yourmind prototype for Siemens. Photo by Michael Petch.
