"Over the past year, technology and sharing economy start-ups have continued their disruption of traditional industries
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Disrupter: 3D printers
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Industry threatened: Small component manufacturers and distributors
Reason why: Growing use of on-site 3D printing to make parts
Any concertgoer knows it is easier to print tickets than pick them up or hope they arrive in the post, writes Patrick McGee. Businesses will soon realise the same applies to spare parts, equipment and electronics.
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The explosion of 3D printers is expected to shake up entire supply chains, allowing companies to print much of what they need rather than order it, often from overseas.
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At the Munich show Electronica in November, Israeli start-up Nano Dimension showed how 3D printing would go well beyond making simple parts. The company’s desktop-sized Dragonfly printer can create multilayer printed circuit boards — the film-like boards found in smartphones and computers that allow signals and power to be transmitted.
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Amit Dror, chief executive, says the 3D printing of circuit boards would boost the research and development process for prototypes, allowing electronics companies to bring new products to market faster.
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“We think 3D printing will play a key role in changing the way the world designs and manufactures.”
Ontem no Twitter espantei-me com este tweet:
Scott @profgalloway at #DLD17: We don't need 3D printing, we have something called China.— Anna Steiner (@EcoImQuadrat) January 16, 2017
A pessoa citada neste tweet não tem noção de que China e Impressão 3D são opostos de uma escala?
A China especializou-se em ser capaz de produzir de forma económica 1 milhão de itens iguais entre si.
A Impressão 3D vai permitir produzir de forma económica 1 milhão de itens todos diferentes entre si.
Trechos retirados de "Five industries under threat from technology".
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