"3D printing" is worth considering

The machine tool is the mother machine of the manufacturing industry. If 3D printing technology can be integrated into the machine tool field, it is undoubtedly even more powerful. Not only does the manufacturing efficiency increase, but it also can complete many manufacturing challenges. The special machine tool in the machine tool will customize the function according to the customer's requirements, but the function is not powerful enough, and may not be designed and manufactured as desired. However, if 3D printing is introduced, it will surely promote the “everyone buys machine tools and everyone processes”. This will greatly increase the popularity and application of the machine tool industry.

Compared with the traditional manufacturing process, 3D printing has two major advantages: First, it saves raw materials and labor, and its materials are only 1/3 to 1/2 of the original, and manufacturing speed is 34 times faster. In addition, 3D printers can produce a variety of different forms of various items. "In theory, as long as the computer can design the shape, 3D printers can print out."

But in real life, can 3D printing technology be widely used in the machine tool industry? The answer is that the road is still long.

With the wide application and mature technology, the 3D printing technology that allows the dream to shine into reality is to completely replace the traditional material reduction manufacturing method or become an important supplement to traditional manufacturing technology. Professor Wang Yunxi of Huazhong University of Science and Technology believes that in the future development of the manufacturing industry, the "material reduction method is still the mainstream."

"Because of the difficulty in research and development of materials for additive manufacturing, the cost of 3D printing is higher, generally reaching 10 to 100 yuan per gram; the manufacturing efficiency is not high, especially in the formation of metal materials, about 100-3,000 per hour. Professor Lu Bingheng of Xi'an Jiaotong University pointed out that currently additive manufacturing technology is mainly used in product research and development in China, and the manufacturing cost is high, manufacturing efficiency is low, and manufacturing precision is still not satisfactory.

It is understood that 3D printing technology has been applied to the manufacture of industrial components in China, but it has not yet entered large-scale industrial applications. Its processes and equipment, as well as applications in aerospace, medical and other fields, need to be further developed. Judging from the current situation, 3D printing technology does not have the conditions to replace the traditional manufacturing industry. In high-volume manufacturing and other aspects, the traditional high-quality, low-cost manufacturing methods for reducing materials are superior.

It can be seen that it seems that 3D printing has encountered some bottlenecks, such as its relatively high technical difficulty and the relatively high cost of printing. However, the advent of 3D technology has given rise to high-precision machine tools for future development. The real good machine tool is probably what the customer wants to create. It can create extremely high-precision, high-efficiency machines with affordable prices. Transport, a variety of advantages in one. In short, machine tool manufacturing needs to be market-oriented and future-oriented!