Industrial-grade 3D printer market is heating up

2020-01-17 Reading: 2390

Today, when the digital tide is sweeping, 3D printing, as an emerging manufacturing technology with data as the core, is accelerating its integration with emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. It is developing for the development of various industries. And upgrade to inject innovation momentum.Every ordinary person in it has gradually realized the impact of 3D printing on daily life.

      The industrial-grade 3D printer market is heating up and the proportion of prototype production is relatively high
 
At present, the domestic 3D printing industry has developed rapidly in Zhejiang, Hubei, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Beijing and other provinces and cities.With the strong support of the government, the 3D printing industry is developing rapidly, and 3D printing industrial parks continue to emerge.At present, domestic 3D printing industrial parks are mainly distributed in coastal areas, and industrial clusters are also formed in the central region.
 
Compared with traditional manufacturing processes, 3D printing technology has many advantages such as rapid prototyping, high manufacturing accuracy, and good molding capabilities for complex structures.Many segmented scenes in the manufacturing industry gradually use 3D printing for product prototyping, or directly use 3D printing for the production of parts and complete machines, and the application scope of 3D printing in the industrial field is gradually increasing.
 
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According to IDC’s Semi-Annual Tracking Report on China’s 3D Printer Market, since 2015, China’s industrial-grade 3D printers (equipment of USD 25K and above) have continued to increase in shipments and sales, and shipments in the first half of 2019 have increased year-on-year. 5.1%, sales increased by 9.3% year-on-year. IDC predicts that the annual sales volume in 2019 is expected to exceed RMB 27 billion.
 
IDC statistics show that the main application of industrial-grade 3D printing is still the production of prototypes (verified samples manufactured in small quantities before finalization), accounting for as high as 84.1%, and only 10.1% for the production of finished products (the rest 5.8% is produced by production auxiliary equipment), which means that 3D printing has great development potential in industrial production.
 
Generally speaking, the 3D printed prototype model must be made by a laser rapid prototyping machine. After polishing, it is a model part that is used as a mold. The advantage of the 3D printing prototype is to reduce the production cost and time cost, to further verify the possibility of the product designer's creative design, and to provide a more reliable guarantee for the mass production of a certain product.
 
In addition to 3D printing for the manufacture of parts such as automobiles, airplanes, and ships, robot shells and medical surgical guides can also be manufactured by 3D printing.At present, many companies at home and abroad have begun to use 3D printing technology to manufacture robot shells and some plastic parts. Generally, 3D printing photosensitive resin materials are used to print robot shell prototypes, and the functional prototypes inside the robots can be printed with nylon materials.
 
In traditional manufacturing, companies need to determine the size of their factories and production lines according to customer needs, and also consider a series of production factors such as parts storage, delivery cycles, inventory quantities, and transportation costs, as well as changes in labor and taxes that follow.All of this means a lot of costs and risks, and the on-demand manufacturing method based on 3D printing is expected to change the traditional manufacturing method of product delivery and make industrial product manufacturing more efficient and intelligent.
 
Some researchers pointed out that with the gradual emergence of manufacturing requirements for refined products such as medical, automotive, energy, aerospace, and so on, lightweight design will become an important direction for the future development of the 3D printing industry. 3D printed parts can achieve weight reduction, which is also a major advantage of 3D printing compared with ordinary product manufacturing processes.The weight reduction of new energy vehicles, artificial skeletons, and rocket loads is likely to become the focus of research in various countries.
 
It is worth noting that the development of 3D printing materials and the excavation of high value-added customization needs will become the two major driving forces for the further expansion of the entire 3D printing market. High efficiency, low price, and high quality have gradually become 3D printing production. Main points of service. In 2020, high-quality industrial-grade 3D printers will provide more assistance for industrial product manufacturing.


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