{"id":9634,"date":"2013-09-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9634"},"modified":"2013-09-06T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:12:54","slug":"3-d-printing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/3-d-printing-today\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D Printing Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090613_0345_3DPrintingT1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3-D printing is often talked about as the future of manufacturing. What people don&#8217;t seem to realize is that 3-D printing is being used to make products today. The Economist posted a broad article looking at the industry, and its current applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3-D printing is useful in the medical field as each patient is different and so mass produced items don&#8217;t work as well as items built specifically for individuals. Individualized hearing aid shells and braces are now built based on scans of a patient&#8217;s face.<\/li>\n<li>The aerospace industry is also using 3-D printing since the volume of goods required is too small to be suitable for mass production. China&#8217;s taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) sit in chairs specifically designed and printed to fit their body shape.<\/li>\n<li>Customized spare parts for airplanes are also printed \u2013 especially for older planes for which parts may no longer be available.<\/li>\n<li>The average F-18, for example, has 90 3-D printed parts even though the planes have been around for twenty years \u2013 well before the rise of 3-D printing.<\/li>\n<li>The high cost of the materials or &#8216;ink&#8217; used by 3-D printers is partly what&#8217;s holding 3-D printing back. The cost is mostly a result of 3-D printer makers requiring that their own ink be used with their printers \u2013 and as with normal printers, a hefty markup is charged on the ink.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article is a much more expansive look at the current and future state of the 3-D printing industry. It talks about how workers and China don&#8217;t really have much reason to fear 3-D printing, the companies that might dominate the future, and a senior executive that might have to reverse his name. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/technology-quarterly\/21584447-digital-manufacturing-there-lot-hype-around-3d-printing-it-fast\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/technology-quarterly\/21584447-digital-manufacturing-there-lot-hype-around-3d-printing-it-fast\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-D printing is often talked about as the future of manufacturing. What people don&#8217;t seem to realize is that 3-D printing is being used to make products today. The Economist posted a broad article looking at the industry, and its current applications: 3-D printing is useful in the medical field as each patient is different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090613_0345_3DPrintingT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}