Rapid Manufacturing Company History
With increasingly fierce competition in the social market and the growth of the industrial design industry, companies are paying attention to product model manufacturing as well as industrial design. The development quality and actual product effect should be checked with a manual board model. In this situation, the hand model industry gradually broke away from the industrial design process and became a relatively independent industry that continued to prosper.
Many professional manual modeling rapid manufacturing companies have emerged, including large prototyping and industrial design prototyping companies, which have also established their own prototyping division. According to incomplete estimates, the domestic prototyping industry employs more than 200,000 people, mainly working in industries in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Bohai Rim region. Of these, there are more than 1,000 companies in Shenzhen and more than 200 in Shanghai.
The prototype model industry can be called the future industry of the future. The development status of the industry has its own advantages.
First, social demand is high. The direct reason for this is companies' increasing investments in product research and development. The indirect reason is related to the development of the national social economy.
Secondly, the barriers to entry in this industry are relatively low and it is possible to build production facilities and equipment that meet production requirements without significant capital investments.
After all, the added value in this industry is relatively high. The actual gross profit is much higher than that of the ordinary manufacturing industry, and the profit is even higher than that of many design companies.
What is PR?
RP technology is an effective means to produce prototypes or complex parts using parallel engineering. It enables the synchronization of product design and mold manufacturing, thereby improving the company's R&D efficiency, shortening the product design cycle, and significantly reducing the costs and risks of new product development. Small products with special shapes are particularly suitable.
The PR application industry
After several years of development, RP has essentially evolved into a system. Likewise, applicable industries are gradually expanding, from product design, mold design and manufacturing, materials engineering, medical research, culture and art to civil engineering, etc. RP is gradually being used, which makes RP technology offer broad prospects.
Case:
Veterinarians can operate on broken animal legs, but they can adapt beaks for birds, which veterinarians cannot. With 3D printing technology, we can now make bird beaks.
A vicious red-crowned crane “fought” at the zoo. As a result, the bird's beak was cut in half. The captainless red-crowned crane could no longer feed itself. The nurse at the veterinary clinic had to feed more than 150 pieces of mud every day; the zoo director was very worried about this. The red-crowned crane is a nationally protected animal. The zoo used 3D printing technology for the first time to redesign a titanium alloy bird's nest.
3D printing technology is based on a digital model that uses adhesive materials to print layer by layer. It does not require molding and machining and can produce the necessary parts directly from computer data. The application of this technology has significantly enriched the therapeutic technology of our modern medicine.
We all know that surgeries require certain equipment to replace damaged bones. But although everyone's bones are approximately the same, they still have some differences. If we use the same parts for everyone, this limits some surgical procedures. For example, the titanium alloy beak must be exclusive to zoo birds because the beak cannot be long or short, otherwise it would also have a negative impact on feeding.
Red crown crane with anesthetic, ready to install a red crown crane
The red crown crane has been successfully installed on the titanium alloy upper lip and can finally eat independently.
Why would they want to remove new enamel to get a good titanium tip? This seems like strange material. This comes from the red-crowned crane's body structure itself. The doctor at Red Mountain Zoo in charge of the red-crowned crane's medical service said that the red-crowned crane is a large bird. Its height and flying shape suggest it must have a special skeleton.
To reduce the weight of the bone, the red-crowned crane's skull still has many honeycomb-shaped holes. Although the 3D titanium alloy guanine is robust, it weighs 30 grams. To lift its mouth to eat and drink, the red-crowned crane had to endure a lot. “It took three days for the titanium alloy to be consumed. We realized the new crane was too heavy and looked for alternative materials.”
With the dual purpose of lightness and durability, all kinds of new medical materials have entered the scope of the red-crowned crane rescue team. One of the materials called Peek caught everyone's attention. “This type of material is widely used in human clinical practice, mainly for reconstructing skulls and spines, etc., and this is the first time it has been used in veterinary medicine.”
This material prints a new bird's mouth with a final weight of just 5 grams. It also suits the red-crowned crane perfectly. The 3D model is scanned and manufactured using other red crown cranes of the same size. Finally, a new life expectancy of 30 years is accompanied by a red-crowned crane.
The application of 3D printing technology has enriched our lives and allows sick people to have a suitable replacement for some of the bones they have lost. There are already many rapid prototyping technology companies in China that are constantly thriving, constantly growing, and constantly getting closer to people's lives.
The application of this technology also plays an important role in protecting wildlife. Wild animals live in the wild and the environment is relatively hostile. It is inevitable that they will crash, crash, break and break. And the number of wild animals is often very small. With this technology we can customize the animals' bones so that they are well protected. I believe that this technology will become more and more sophisticated in the future and that our lives will become better and better.
