Legends of the Age: Describe the history of the global 3D printing industry!
Suddenly hot 3D printing, so that we think it is a new technology turned out. In fact, any novelty technique is not an overnight one. 3D printing has been used for more than 30 years since its official appearance until now. Therefore, it is customarily referred to as "the last century's thinking, the last century's technology, the market of this century."
The core manufacturing ideas of 3D printing technology first originated in the United States at the end of the 19th century. By the late 1980s, the 3D printing technology was mature and widely used. In 1892, the United States registered a patented technology that used a lamination method to create a three-dimensional map model. In 1860, the Frenchman, Francois Willème, applied for a patent for a multi-camera Photosculpture. In 1979, Prof. Nakagawa Nakagawa of the Institute of Production Technology at the University of Tokyo invented the stack modelling method. In 1980, the Japanese man Xiao Yuxiu proposed light modeling. Although the Japanese have developed some methods for 3D printing, more than 20 years later, Americans have turned these scientific methods into practical uses.
The earliest commercial 3D printing manufacturing technology was the American inventor Charles Hull. In 1986, Charles left the UV product company that he worked for and established a company named "3D Systems" that began to focus on developing 3D printing technology. This is the first company in the world to produce 3D printing equipment, and the technology it used was called "stereolithography" at that time, and it was based on the principle of photopolymerization of liquid photosensitive resins. In 1988, Charles produced the world's first 3D printer SLA-250 based on stereolithography technology, which is very large.
In 1988, the American Scott Krupp invented a new 3D printing technology - fused deposition modeling. This process is suitable for conceptual modeling and shape and function testing of products and is not suitable for manufacturing large parts. In 1989, American Dekade invented the selective laser sintering technology, which features a wide range of materials, such as nylon, wax, ABS, metal, and ceramic powders. In 1992, American Helicopters invented the technique of lamination superposition.
Prior to 1995, there was no name for 3D printing. At that time, the accepted name for the field of research was "rapid prototyping." In 1995, Jim and Tim, two senior students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose the rapid prototyping technique as the topic for their thesis. After many discussions and explorations, the two men thought of using inkjet printers that were already popular at the time. They replaced the ink in the printer's ink cartridges with glue and sprayed glue to bind the powder on the powder bed. As a result, some three-dimensional objects could be printed. They excitedly called this printing method 3D printing and called their modified printer a 3D printer. Since then, the term 3D printing has slowly become popular, and all rapid prototyping technologies have fallen under the banner of 3D printing.
Just as more than 200 years ago, Watt invented the steam engine and opened the prelude to the modern industrial revolution. Many people think that 3D printing can also trigger an industrial revolution, even if it is itself the third industrial revolution. However, we must not overlook that it is not the steam engine that triggered the modern industrial revolution. It is the concept of the social philosophy that drives mechanical power to become mainstream and the main development method. This idea has triggered the second industrial revolution, so 3D printing will not become the first The three industrial revolutions, which are to promote a new industrial revolution, must be achieved by inducing the transformation of new human ideas.
It is not too late for China's 3D printing technology to start. It was roughly after more than three years after the United States deciphered its 3D laser printing R&D program in 1999 that China started related research and development. In general, China started 15 years later than the United States, but progress has been remarkable. In some areas it has indeed surpassed the United States. A calm review of China's 3D printing industry, the situation is not so optimistic about certain articles. At present, enterprises and research institutes engaged in the research and development of 3D printing in China are only two to thirty, but their overall strength is not very strong. Except for the large-scale components of titanium alloys, we have nothing to boast about in other areas. China's traditional precision machinery and heavy machinery manufacturing because of materials and processing problems, the quality of manufactured products can not be compared with Germany and Japan, and even some are not as good as South Korea, Spain and the like, which is an urgent need to use 3D printing Technology catch-up and breakthroughs. While 3D printing only solves the problem of rapid prototyping, the characteristics of the material itself need to be tackled.
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