3D Printing Primer Video - Disruptive Manufacturing

The 3D printing primer by Lisa Harouni captured on video for a TED talk provides a good background on additive manufacturing technology and some of its uses. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Lisa and in this video Lisa does a great job of explaining and visually demonstrating how 3D printing creates items "layer upon layer in an additive process", building them up by "melting and depositing or depositing and melting", fusing "the new layers of materials to the old layers" to build physical products.

In the context of this talk, Harouni shows an example of an EOS laser sintering machine, and offers some spectacular and intricate items that are produced with additive technologies. She comments correctly that some of these products are so intricate and detailed that they can only be produced with additive manufacturing; as she says, they "are impossible to build in any other way".

Harouni says that 3D printing is a disruptive manufacturing process that is at a tipping point, poised to cause a revolution in manufacturing.

At Paramount, we think that the tipping point on 3D printing has already been reached in some respects to revolutionize manufacturing. While this talk focuses on future applications for creating custom consumer products, we focus on creating completely customized, intricate, detailed, ready-to-use components that are being used in applications for many industries. This vision is already a reality every day at Paramount and for Paramount’s customers.

The additive manufacturing community of professional users and the growing number of consumer users together are tipping the manufacturing paradigm.

Check out the 3D Printing Primer talk by Lisa Harouni: