Step into the fast-track development
In July, the bridge to the harvest season, all things flourish, and the additive manufacturing is flourishing under the nourishment of industrial manufacturing innovation. The 2018 China Additive Manufacturing Conference and Exhibition is just the right time to fully assist the intelligent manufacturing industry. According to Wohlers Associates (2018) statistics, in 2017, the global additive manufacturing industry output value reached 7.336 billion US dollars, an increase of 21.0%, a growth rate of 3.6 percentage points over last year, achieving a bottoming out. Global industrial grade additive manufacturing The sales volume of equipment was about 14,736 units, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year. The growth rate was 8.4 percentage points higher than that of last year. In particular, the sales volume of metal additive manufacturing equipment reached 1,768 units, an increase of 79.9% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 57.9 percentage points higher than that of 2016. 'After more than 30 years of development, the additive manufacturing industry is entering the growth stage from the initial stage, showing an accelerated growth trend. 'China Vice President of the Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute, Wang Peng, Secretary General of China Additives Manufacturing Industry Alliance China Electronics News reporter said.
'At present, additive manufacturing has entered the high-speed development period of industrial application, and the industrial 3D printing and additive manufacturing applications are gradually expanding. ' Li Zhiyong, head of the Aerospace Science and Technology Additive Manufacturing Center, is very grateful to the China Electronics News According to the reporter, Li Zhiyong introduced that in 2016, the total sales of global additive manufacturing materials and 3D printers and services market was US$6.063 billion. Compared with 2017, the data showed a clear upward trend.
'Incremental manufacturing is rapidly developing on a global scale, and has already been incorporated into the industrial development strategies of the United States in advanced manufacturing, France's future industries, etc.' Zhang Dao, president of Dassault Systèmes Greater China, told the China Electronics News.
After years of development, the global additive manufacturing industry has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 26.2%, of which the compound annual growth rate in 2012-2014 is as high as 33.8%, especially after 2010, the industrialization of additive manufacturing. The pace has obviously accelerated, the scientific and technological innovations have increased significantly, the key technologies and equipment performance have been continuously improved, and the application fields have been expanding. ' Huang Xianqing, CEO of First Promise Technology Co., Ltd. told the China Electronics News.
In addition to the improvement of development speed, the development trend of additive manufacturing in recent years is gradually developing towards intelligence. Li Zhiyong introduced to the reporter that the intelligent control system, information technology and additive manufacturing equipment are effectively integrated to make the additive manufacturing equipment control The system is intelligent and autonomous, safe, controllable, and scientifically assisted in production. 'Therefore, intelligent manufacturing achieves intelligent control of 3D printing from four aspects: process, production, service guarantee, and intelligent management, which is beneficial to the company. Life cycle management, optimizing R&D and production decisions. ' Li Zhiyong said.
Exhibitors focus on emerging areas
The strong growth of additive manufacturing has brought about innovations in industrial models and business models. In order to reflect the development characteristics of smart manufacturing in 2018, this 2018 China Additive Manufacturing Conference and Exhibition has specially invited many expansions in emerging fields. The company, demonstrating major achievements in technological innovation and demonstration applications, promotion, promotion of additive manufacturing technology, products and excellent solutions.
Zhang Ying told reporters that Dassault Systèmes' solutions at this exhibition are mainly for industrial-grade 3D printing, covering a range of solutions from design, modeling, simulation to management, which can greatly reduce the cost of raw materials for additive manufacturing. And improve the yield. 'In 2018, the development of additive manufacturing has accelerated, and there have been more applications in emerging fields, such as cell or organ printing in the biological field, more and more popular architectural 3D printing, and straw and other agricultural forests. Industrial waste is converted into 3D printed materials, etc. At the same time, there are more and more players in this field, and upstream and downstream supporting enterprises and more related hardware and software companies in the industry are involved. ' Zhang Ying said.
First of all, 3D is also marching into the emerging field. According to Huang Xianqing's introduction, the first three-dimensional structure has been constructed with '1+4' intensive business development. '1' refers to the parent company, the main task is to increase the convenience of 3D digital technology and other emerging technologies. R&D. '4' refers to four subsidiaries, which are accelerating their efforts in 3D digital technology, metal 3D printing, biomaterials and cellular 3D printing, online and offline '3D printing + Internet' distributed manufacturing, etc. 'Looking at the development trend of additive manufacturing in recent years, I think that the application of emerging technologies will be more extensive. Take the first three-dimensional example. We have applied in the fields of aerospace, mold, dental, shoes, jewelry, innovative design, etc. It is more mature and will be applied to more fields in the future. ' Huang Xianqing said.
The aerospace science and technology workers of this conference will bring a large number of professional and cutting-edge works to participate in the exhibition. Li Zhiyong told reporters that the design of high-mobility aircraft for aerospace science and technology has become a major feature, with the requirements of design and manufacturing process. This aircraft has met the requirements of light weight, high strength, good electrical and thermal performance and low research and manufacturing cost and cycle. 'Being bigger and stronger, the additive manufacturing industry needs to design from products, raw materials, key components. , equipment, applications, services and other links to strengthen the research and development and production of key technologies, open up barriers in all aspects of the industrial chain. In addition to technological innovation, the industrialization of additive manufacturing should also pay attention to the innovation of industrial models and business models. Li Zhiyong said.
In fact, apart from making breakthroughs in the emerging fields, Wang Peng explained to reporters that opening up the path of technological innovation and industrialization and building a complete industrial chain will also be the focus of many enterprises' development and display. 'The development focus of additive manufacturing enterprises Focus on three areas: First, continuous independent innovation, second, industrialization, and third, promote industry application. For these three areas, the alliance will play the role of industry organization bridge and link, organize equipment enterprises and parts, material preparation Users carry out demand docking, coordinate and promote equipment development, test identification and pilot demonstration, accelerate product application and promotion. Closely track domestic and international industrial technology development trends, strengthen research on major issues and policies of industrial development, and prepare and publish industrial development reports. Actively publicize relevant regulatory requirements and technical standards, strengthen industry self-discipline, improve industry quality, and maintain industry safety. 'Wang Peng said.
The exhibition received high expectations
Compared with last year, the 2018 China Additive Manufacturing Conference and Exhibition has more experience in hosting, and cooperates with industry enterprises to build a government-enterprise docking, production and research docking, production and docking, high-standard and internationalized display of production and demand docking. And the exchange platform. This year's 2018 China Additive Manufacturing Conference and Exhibition has a scale of over 20,000 square meters, and more than 300 exhibitors have developed into the first exhibition of the domestic additive manufacturing industry.
Compared with previous editions, the first exhibition is larger in scale, the scale of the summit, and the scale of the exhibition is new. Second, the level is higher, the leading enterprises at home and abroad, experts are all present. Third, the content is more substantial, in the original aviation On the basis of aerospace, biomedical, and standard testing sub-forums, we will add a new sub-forum in the field of automotive manufacturing; at the same time, we will add a number of exciting activities such as the China Additive Manufacturing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 3D printing desktop performance competition and so on. Peng said.
'Compared with previous years, this exhibition pays more attention to promoting the industry's landing. I hope this conference can open up the application chain and capital chain of the development of additive manufacturing industry.' Huang Xianqing told reporters.
It is reported that the exhibition area of this year's conference is double that of last year. Relevant software and hardware companies must basically participate in this conference in different forms. ' Zhang Ying told reporters. In addition, Zhang Ying also The reporter said that for the conference, Dassault is full of expectations for the industry and partners. 'Additive manufacturing is facing rapid development. Dassault Systèmes hopes to work together with customers and partners to promote the development of the entire industrial ecosystem. The eagle said.
'This exhibition has many fields from 3D printing, biomedical, industrial applications, as well as automotive, education, consumer goods, arts and cultural institutions, famous 3D printing equipment vendors, end users, and local governments. Research institutes and universities. 'Li Zhiyong said. On the other hand, Li Zhiyong told reporters that the aerospace science and engineering industry has high expectations for this exhibition. 'Aerospace science and technology enthusiasts hope to continue to deepen with local governments, universities and The cooperative relationship of relevant enterprises accelerates the industry and serves the local economy; promotes the transformation of results and supports independent innovation; develops industrial cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, and promotes the healthy development of the industry. 'Li Zhiyong said.