Mötesplats Rydberg - Olaf Diegel: Printing the future

Tuesday 24 Mar 2015, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Stockholm

Rydbergsalen (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

3D printing is coming of age. It is becoming a rapid “manufacturing” technology that will have a great deal of influence on how we live in the future. It will have a profound impact on almost all manufactured products, on how we do business, and on how we live longer and healthier lifestyles. 3D printing completely changes the design rules that designers and engineers have traditionally been ‘constrained’ by. By allowing us to now think differently about the products we design, it opens up a whole new range of opportunities for creativity and sustainability. It also allows inventors and entrepreneurs to get their products to market without the large capital risks of traditional manufacturing that becomes a barrier to innovation. In this talk, we review the state of the art of 3D printing technologies and examine some of their current and future applications in the fields of art, engineering, business, and health.