Customers worldwide ramping up 3D printing
installations; More than 3 million Multi Jet Fusion parts produced
in last year alone; Breakthrough program to digitally reinvent HP
product lifecycle
Today at the world’s largest 3D printing user event, the Additive
Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) conference, HP Inc. showcased new
large-scale customer deployments and its own Reinventing HP With
Multi Jet Fusion program as the industry accelerates its journey to
full-scale 3D production. According to Wohlers Report 2018,
the production of functional parts, including functional
prototyping, is now the industry’s leading additive manufacturing
use-case and the demand for production-grade parts is expected to
continue to grow exponentially. As the market leader,
shipping more plastic production 3D printers than any other company
in the world[1], HP is delivering both unprecedented capabilities
and economic advantages to its manufacturing customers, and also
embracing its own technology to transform the design, production,
and distribution of HP products worldwide.
“Our mission is to change the way the world designs and
manufacturers with 3D printing. We are seeing an increase in
high-volume 3D production as the industry accelerates its journey
towards a digital future,” said Stephen Nigro, President of 3D
Printing, HP Inc. “Customers are leaning in, driving improved
economics, and increasing production of industrial-grade parts – in
the last year alone more than three million parts were produced on
Multi Jet Fusion and more than 50% are for end use. As one of
the largest manufacturers in the world, HP is also leveraging our
own technology to transform our product development lifecycle to
help lower costs, speed time to market, increase customer
satisfaction, and improve sustainability across our
business.”
Acceleration of Industrial 3D Printing As
demand for production-grade 3D printing grows, many HP customers
are placing repeat orders and upgrading their deployments to
increase capacity of their HP Jet Fusion 3D printer arrays to
fulfill higher order volumes and grow their businesses.
- Forecast 3D, one of the oldest and largest
privately-held 3D manufacturers in the U.S., is upgrading its full
fleet of 12 HP 3D printers to HP Jet Fusion 3D 4210 systems to meet
rising demand. For example, Forecast 3D expects to produce
more than one million Multi Jet Fusion parts in the coming year for
a leading client in the medical sector. The HP Jet Fusion 3D 4210
solution is designed for industrial-scale 3D manufacturing
environments, offering significantly lower overall operating costs
while increasing production capacity.
- GoProto, with more than 500 clients across
multiple industries, has installed six HP 4200 3D printers to meet
expanding customer demand for high-volume prototyping and robust
production applications. The company leverages HP Multi Jet
Fusion solutions to enable exceptional throughput capacity and to
provide customers with fast, efficient, and reliable service.
- Stern, known for conventional manufacturing
for medical and automotive customers, is anchoring its new service
bureau entity Stern 3D with HP Multi Jet Fusion
technology. The company is installing 10 HP Jet Fusion 4200 3D
printing solutions in its production facility near Stuttgart,
Germany.
Reinventing HP’s Product Lifecycle With Multi Jet Fusion
3D Printing
HP itself is one of the largest designers, manufacturers, and
distributers of products in the world. As part of an
innovative Reinventing HP With Multi Jet Fusion
program to leverage its own 3D printing technology to lower costs,
speed time to market, increase customer satisfaction, and improve
sustainability, HP is using Multi Jet Fusion across its Print,
Personal Systems, and 3D Printing business units.
“HP delivers nearly 100 million products annually through a
sophisticated network of HP factories, original design
manufacturers, and logistics providers across more than 170
countries,” said Stuart Pann, Chief Supply Chain Officer, HP
Inc. “This unique program brings together product design,
engineering, procurement, supply chain operations, and
manufacturing to unleash the potential of Multi Jet Fusion.
Embracing the design freedom of 3D printing, HP is making
breakthroughs in cost, productivity, quality, and performance as we
digitally reinvent our product lifecycle and supply chain.”
As a sustainability leader, HP is also pioneering 3D printing
benefits such as reduced warehousing and transportation due to
on-demand production, reduced scrap as a result of better
supply/demand control, reduced material consumption and increased
material recyclability, and reduced fuel consumption of the end
product in industries such as auto and aerospace thanks to
lightweight designs possible only with 3D printing.
Just a few real-world examples of the many benefits of HP’s
first-of-its kind program include:
Design Freedom and Product Performance
- 50% of the custom plastic parts inside the Jet Fusion
4200, and over 140 parts inside the new Jet Fusion
300/500 Series, can be produced using Multi Jet Fusion
technology. This is believed to be the largest number of 3D
produced parts in any finished product in the world. The
redesign and 3D production of these parts delivers higher
performance in areas such as improved airflow, lightweighting, and
optimization for space constraints, as well as lower costs and
increased manufacturing flexibility, as it alleviates tooling and
assembly time and costs.
- A key part in HP’s Large Format Printers was redesigned to make
use of topological optimization and is entering mass production
with a 93% weight reduction[2], a 50% cost
reduction[3] and a 95x carbon footprint
reduction[4] versus the original aluminum machined
part.
- HP included Multi Jet Fusion 3D printed parts in the HP ENVY
ISS, the printer developed to replace the existing printing
capability aboard the International Space Station. HP engineers
turned to Multi Jet Fusion because it
reduced cost, part count, and decreased assembly,
compared to parts created with traditional manufacturing. HP
expedited development of its HP 3D High Reusability PA 12 Glass
Beads Material to produce 11 parts for the HP ENVY ISS, including a
specially-designed output tray to meet NASA’s list of requirements
in order to safely operate onboard the International Space
Station.
Cost Savings, Speed to Market and
Sustainability
- Reducing design time by up to 50%, and saving millions
of dollars in deferred tooling expenses, for numerous
parts across HP products such as air ducts in the Jet Fusion 4200
and the new HP Jet Fusion 300/500 series due to replacing complex
multicomponent parts with one 3D printed part, thus eliminating
many tooling, assembly, quality, and complex supply chain
costs.
- A tool utilized in the manufacture of HP’s printheads was
redesigned for Multi Jet Fusion to increase water tightness and
reduce turbulence flow. New materials utilization and part
consolidation also led to lead times being reduced from
months to days, 90% reduction in weight[5], 95%
reduction in cost[6] and more than 30x
reduction in carbon footprint[7].
- Instead of expensive tooling and molding, plastic parts for the
new HP Z 3D Camera were produced with Multi Jet Fusion leading to
significant cost-savings and shortening the lead time by
more than 6 weeks.
To learn more about this innovative program and specific 3D
printing applications, join Michelle Bockman, Global Head of 3D
Printing Commercial Expansion and Development, for the
“Behind the Scenes: Driving Our Own Digital
Transformation” AMUG Diamond Session on Tuesday, April 10
at 11:00 a.m. in Ballroom A.
HP at AMUG Attendees at AMUG can learn more
about the entire HP Jet Fusion portfolio, including live demos of
the new full-color HP Jet Fusion 3D 300 / 500 series, see the
latest HP Multi Jet Fusion applications, and join a hands-on
workshop for current and future HP Open Platform Materials at
HP’s booth, Demo Suite D5.
About HP HP Inc. creates technology that makes
life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our portfolio of
printers, PCs, mobile devices, solutions and services, we engineer
experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available
at http://www.hp.com/go/3Dprinting.
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- Data via CONTEXT Additive Manufacturing Q3-2017 report specific
to target market category (thermoplastic), printers with ASP from
$100,000-$500,000.
- Weight reduction calculated based on: Aluminimum machined part
= 355g, MJF part = 23g.
- Cost reduction calculated based on: Aluminimum machined part =
$22, MJF part = $11.
- Carbon footprint reduction calculated based on: Aluminum
machined part part carbon footprint: 19.7 kg CO2 eq. MJF part
carbon footprint: 0.97 kg CO2 eq.
- Weight reduction calculated based on: Aluminimum machined part
= 575g, MJF part = 52g.
- Cost reduction calculated based on: Aluminimum machined part =
SGD800, MJF part = SGD36.
- Carbon footprint reduction calculated based on: Aluminum
machined part part carbon footprint: CO2 eq. MJF part carbon
footprint: CO2 eq.
Noel Hartzell, HP inc.
+1 415 786 4323
noel.hartzell@hp.com
www.hp.com/go/newsroom
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