2012, 3D printing is the hottest year; 2013, robotics The hottest; In 2014, Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing were the hottest. What's hot in 2015?
It could be a Google robot, it could be a Google driverless car, it could be our 3D printing...
No matter what is the hottest, 3D printing, robotics, and intelligent manufacturing will be the eternal themes of future technological development. Recently, Google driverless cars and Google robots have made many technological breakthroughs. Google's driverless car has traveled 1 million kilometers safely without any accident, indicating that driverless technology will gradually become possible in the future. However, unmanned driving is not a goal, but only a direction of technological innovation. Although self-driving is convenient, it will not replace traditional manned driving. After all, driving can be a rare pleasure sometimes. Google Robot surpasses the technology and level of all four robots of the past, and the humanoid robot is the most flexible and human-like robot to date.
In the next few years, driverless cars, humanoid robots, and 3D printing, as the development direction of intelligent manufacturing, will become the new normal.
Unmanned vehicles will mature in the next 10 years or so, and will lead a new direction for the future development of the smart car industry. The "robots" we usually talk about are actually not robots in the real sense, and are still in the "machine" stage, and do not have the ability of human thinking, analysis, judgment, and action. In the future, robots will not only be machines, but will also be endowed with more human wisdom. Intelligent robots will become a hot spot in the near future and can participate in more and wider activities of human beings.
3DPrinting will no longer just print some toys, gifts, mold models, and print various functional products. Subject to material, stability, precision, time and other factors. In the next 10 years, in the context of intelligent manufacturing, we will hardly see the shadow of 3D printers. 3D printing will no longer be just the objective existence of one printer, but a part of one open service platform.
The essence of intelligent manufacturing is the crystallization of information technology and Internet technology, and it is the in-depth application and breakthrough of Internet of Things technology, big data technology, cloud computing technology, and smart material technology.
Smart manufacturing has no end, only a beginning. In some fields, intelligent manufacturing has already begun. Human society will basically enter the era of intelligent manufacturing in about 10 years.
The Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and smart materials are all necessary tools and auxiliary means for the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing technologies.
With the Internet, the Internet of Things came into being, and the Industrial Internet, Industrial Internet, Service Internet, and Financial Internet came into being. Its essence is the deep penetration and industry segmentation of the Internet, not the essence of the Internet. change.
3DPrinting Being able to print three-dimensional objects is only the first step. Being able to print functional products is the second step, and it can be integrated and developed with other advanced technologies such as big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, smart materials, artificial intelligence technology, etc., and become part of many intelligent service platforms, with voice recognition, information The processing ability is the third step, which is the 3.0 era of 3D printing.
3DThe characteristics of printing determine that it is not a very alternative technology, therefore, the development of 3D printing is not It is possible to follow the old road of traditional manufacturing - producing equipment and selling equipment - that road is obviously unworkable. At present, the business model of 3D printing is single, which needs to be highly valued by the industry.
Building more open application service platforms is the only magic weapon to effectively open the 3D printing application service market. The cost of 3D printing is generally too high, and the mode of transferring cost risks to the majority of users by equipment manufacturers and material manufacturers needs to be constantly adjusted. It is an inevitable trend for equipment vendors, material vendors and supporting service providers to link up and establish strategic alliances to reduce user costs and risks. Only when users really get benefits can the industry develop hope.
3DThe key to the development of the printing industry is application. Whoever opens the application market of 3D printing first in the future will have the possibility Leading the development of the future 3D printing industry.
2014November 9, 2014, at the first World 3D Printing Congress Americas Summit in San Francisco, USA for the first time The concept of "meeting the era of 3D printing 3.0" was put forward: 3D printing, as a cutting-edge advanced manufacturing technology, has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life and has been successfully applied to all aspects of production and life.
The first generation of 3D printers was born in the mid-to-late 1980s, mainly based on being able to print models. In the later stage, it mainly developed molds, and gradually evolved into rapid prototyping. The second generation of 3D printers has developed from rapid prototyping to printing high-precision functional products in recent years, and has been widely used in aerospace and other fields. The third generation of 3D printers may be born in the next 10 years. In the context of intelligent manufacturing, 3D printing technology is combined with many other advanced technologies such as Internet of Things technology, big data, cloud computing, robots, and smart materials to become a number of intelligent A section on the manufacturing platform.
On the whole, the 2.0 era of 3D printing technology is much more mature than the 1.0 era, and it has greatly improved in terms of technology, materials, cost, operability, and application. However, we cannot deny that intelligent manufacturing has become an inevitable trend in the development of the future manufacturing industry, and the integration of traditional technologies and traditional industries with the Internet, Internet of Things, and geographic information networks will be more closely integrated.
In the era of intelligent manufacturing, personalized customization services will become the norm, and the integration of various production factors and resource factors will rise to a new level. The era of 3D printing 3.0 will play an important leading and supporting role in the future intelligent manufacturing process.
Technological progress and innovation will be a long-term business. Today we cannot stagnate, and we will work harder tomorrow! I hope that our global 3D printing industry will work together, develop together, and jointly promote the advent of the 3D printing 3.0 era!