自动化后处理系统制造商PostProcesshas officially launched the 2021 edition of its annualAdditive Manufacturing Post-Printing Industry Trends Survey.
After last year’s报告表明，后处理已成为大流行期间制造商的重要效率驱动因素，今年再次吸引了3D印刷行业对相关方法，挑战和应用的反馈。一旦整理，今年的数据也将被市场和技术分开，使读者清楚地了解用户的经验和未来计划。
那些熟悉经营后处理机的人在2021年9月29日之间参加，参与者有机会赢得五套Beats Studio Buds. After the survey’s results have been collected and analyzed, PostProcess intends to release a comprehensive, market-segmented report in early October.
Post-printing’s growing influence
Although 3D printing is often marketed as a high-tech disruptive technology, many users still rely on manual methods of removing excess material and finishing the surfaces of parts. In doing so, these manufacturers are not only damaging their own productivity, but often relying on the use of harsh chemicals that come with inherent safety and sustainability risks.
为了解决这个问题，现在可以使用许多后处理单元，通过删除支持并提供最终用途的质量饰面效果来自动化这种费力的流程。因此，商业采用者将从更高的吞吐量中受益，而他们的技术人员则被释放以从事面向价值的任务，从而使公司免于在削减Covid-19的时期不得不花在劳动上。
However, despite the labor constraints and supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic, PostProcess maintains that it has also allowed “3D printing’s adaptability and on-demand nature to shine.” In order to continue this trend, the firm is now calling for all post-printing users to come forward, share their experiences and contribute to a resource that could inform the development of future machines.
分解动荡的2020
考虑到许多制造商面临的极为困难的条件，去年的调查结果确实是一种独一无二的。这反映在其贡献者的答案中，使用熟练的劳动力提高了报告的“最佳印刷挑战”表。此外，有75％的受访者还报告了使用三种或更多技术的受访者，这表明简化的流程现在对可伸缩性至关重要。
当通过技术分解时，约有71％的贡献者说他们利用FDM，而50％的贡献者报告使用增值税光聚合，而41％的人承认部署了PBF。不过，有趣的是，SLA，DLP和剪辑用户实际上最关心其技术的安全性，而那些后处理金属的人更有可能将当前的工作流程视为“实现目标的挑战”。
同样，结果表明，有67％的国防部运作的人也发现后处理是达到生产目标的限制因素，而50％的汽车用户也有同样的感觉。鉴于这两个部门受到了大流行的严重打击，因此这一结果表明需要开发满足这一需求的新解决方案，并使该技术能够在关键印刷市场中蓬勃发展。
The survey also found that a whopping 79% of respondents consider ‘improving end part quality’ to be their main priority when buying a post-processing unit, with ‘reduced cycling times’ a distant second (43%), and just under half of all respondents (46%) agreed that current systems are “acceptable for today but will become a challenge” in future.
借助2021年的调查，后过程现在呼吁参与3D印刷零件后处理的人员再次贡献他们的专业知识。既然大流行似乎正在消退，这些反应很可能会对后循环的世界产生重要的见解，以及印刷后用户的优先事项是否相应地改变了。
如何参加
根据后进程的说法，3D打印部门“处于快速增长的独特位置”，其调查可以通过整理当前景观的数据来帮助维持这一点。作为额外的奖励，贡献者还将获得五组Beats Studio Buds之一的奖品抽奖，因此，对所有相关人员来说，这项调查是值得的。
The full 2020 report can be accessed here.
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