Disrupting Manufacturing One Layer At A Time | Tim Simpson | TEDxPSU

From airplanes and satellites to implants and consumer goods, additive manufacturing is disrupting manufacturing as we know it. The capability to 3D print materials layer by layer to create complex parts and shapes is forcing us to rethink nearly every aspect of the process of production - the design tools we use, the materials we select, the supply chains we create, the business models we follow, even the way we protect our intellectual property and handle cyber-security. The possibilities for additive manufacturing have driven the excitement to new heights, and entrepreneurs and companies of all shapes and sizes are transforming themselves -and their workforce - to unleash the innovative potential of additive manufacturing.
Dr. Tim Simpson has been using and teaching students about 3D printing for nearly 20 years, but his passion for the technology was reignited five years ago when he saw his kids’ excitement at printing pink tiaras, ninja stars, and even their own heads on plastic figurines at home. With the recent advancements in 3D metal printing, this Penn State professor of mechanical and industrial engineering feels like a child himself, questioning everything that he has seen and learned about manufacturing and design. Dr. Simpson’s enthusiasm is evident as he leads hundreds of visitors on tours each year through Penn State’s CIMP-3D (Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition). As Co-Director of the lab, Dr. Simpson enjoys blowing people’s minds with lab’s state-of-the-art metal 3D printing systems, which have fabricated everything from aircraft parts, to engine pistons, to knee implants, to watch cases.
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[@davidsaintjohn4248]

Loving it. Glad to see the reprap reference!

[@rafajaw]

Awesome quality information, it's presentations like this that can give you really changing insights!

[@CONSULTDCOM]

Very holistic summary on Additive Manufacturing [3D printing]

[@ericweis9771]

Great talk.

[@MSportsEngineering]

Interesting to see the stocks mentioned still in the trough a number of years later.

[@smicksmookety]

Solid talk.

[@bharatdalvi10]

That was suparb...

[@Punk1044]

Printing an entire heat exchanger... wow.

[@bulgexpat80]

That would be huge for printing reverse flow exchangers

[@stan420]

and now we have support free AM with Velo3D, awesome tech

[@jimmyc451]

machines building machines is how the terminator became

[@JimCoupeTQ]

Check out Arcam EBM.. they build intressting machines that uses powder in 1300 degree celcius. If i had the money i would have one in my garage hahah

[@rk_8788]

Will additive manufacturing replaces CNC? and how future mechanical jobs will be ?

[@dijin8855]

Additive manufacturing still needs designers and engineers to tell the machines what to do. Jobs won’t disappear it’s just going to be different types of jobs to better leverage the power of human brains. Cnc is subtractive manufacturing which still has its advantages to additives.

[@PoopityScoopityrupe]

A.I

[@darrenmarchant1720]

we have been making precise square holes using broaches for centuries
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[@darthvader5300]

I'd rather have a physical, non-digital, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted machine tool industrial shop factory, heavy engineering factory, and machine building factory. Rather than have something that manufactures something conveniently at the expense of certainty that can only be acquired by a hands on and minds on working experience in designing, building, testing, inspecting and mass producing any manufactured products, and sacrificing permanence and security for ease of manufacturing things because you do not have an auxlliary analog, non-digital manufacturing, all mechanical, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted assembly line system, processing system, and extraction system and that of their equally analog, non-digital manufacturing, all mechanical, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted ancilliary industries.

[@darthvader5300]

I'd rather have a physical, non-digital, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted machine tool industrial shop factory, heavy engineering factory, and machine building factory. Rather than have something that manufactures something conveniently at the expense of certainty that can only be acquired by a hands on and minds on working experience in designing, building, testing, inspecting and mass producing any manufactured products, and sacrificing permanence and security for ease of manufacturing things because you do not have an auxlliary analog, non-digital manufacturing, all mechanical, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted assembly line system, processing system, and extraction system and that of their equally analog, non-digital manufacturing, all mechanical, mechanically automated, servomechanisms-assisted ancilliary industries.

[@darrenmarchant1720]

good presentation, now we need to solve the social moral judgement of employees of traditional manufacturing who will lose there social position, dignity, homes, and family's due to the disruption that changes to manufacturing will incur.

[@nicolesong6199]

i saw u on a different ted talk on 3d printing! great copy-and-pasting skills you have there!

[@jorgegonzalezglez]

You cannot forget about the thousands of jobs created by 3D printing... I seriously doubt that adding new manufacturing technologies to the market reduces the number of workers in total.

[@darrenmarchant1720]

he is wrong about the term additive manufacturing, high temp metal spray's were applied to a shaft using a lathe in a method comparable to welding and that was called additive manufacturing.

[@LeeBrosYT]

This is still terrible in production. Very slow and inefficient. Often doesn't actually create better parts.