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How 3D Printing and Big Data are Working Together
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3D printing has become a hot topic in recent years, and is being used in a variety of industries such as healthcare, engineering, architecture, and more. However, there is one key tool that 3D printing relies on that could make or break its future: big data.
Without the existence of this advanced data, some of the functions used in 3D printing would not be possible. But how do big data and 3D printing work together? Let’s examine.
What is 3D printing?
3D printing is the process of making a three-dimensional solid object from a digital file. Just like a regular printer prints text or photos created on the computer, a similar process can be done with 3D printing. An individual can design or download an object and then print the object in a full three-dimensional form.
Unlike regular printers, 3D printers work like plotters, moving a point along the X and Y axes. The printed material is typically drawn with plastic rather than ink. Once the object is drawn, the base moves up and down in an ongoing cycle, creating a layered effect until the product is completed in three-dimensional form. Products can be as simple as toys to as complex as medical tools used hospitals. For example, surgeons can replicate patient-specific organs with the help of 3D printers, and they’re even able to produce realistic skin for burn victims or prosthetic limbs for amputees.
What is big data?
While there is an ongoing debate as to what constitutes “big data,” it is essentially a compilation of information that comes from multiple sources. These sources could include satellites, microphones, cameras, computers, and more. The information can be gathered by opt-ins or lead forms, tracking softwares, or cookies. For example, a fitness app may track how many steps an individual takes per day.
The sources that allow it to track those steps are all a part of big data.
How do they work together?
3D printing is a data-heavy technology, which means it is essential for both big data and 3D technology to keep up with each other through technological advancements every year. That being said, there are a number of ways in which big data and 3D printing are already proving to be the perfect fit for each other. Two main ways in which they work together are with data visualization and manufacturing.
Data visualization
Visualization tools such as datasets, graphs, charts, or blueprints are used in almost every field in order to better understand aspects like products and company growth. While these tools are extremely useful, with the help of 3D printing, companies can bring their charts or drawings to life. The type of in-depth analysis that 3D printing can create allows for better pattern recognition, deeper information absorption, higher realistic representation of products, and additional product viewpoints.
One example of using 3D printing for better data visualization comes from a 2014 case study, where two researchers at MIT, Zachary Weber and Vijay Gadepally, created a 3D printed model of their university campus and added Twitter data which was streamed onto the product based on geographical location. This allowed them to see “twitter volume as a function of time and space to provide insight into campus patterns or life.” Charts and info-graphs can easily show individuals the “numbers” side of a projection, but 3D printing is an even bigger game-changer in the industry as it can offer physical models of such visualizations, which makes the information that much easier to both analyze and understand.
Manufacturing
One key aspect that 3D printing is known for is revolutionizing the modern manufacturing industry, and big data plays a large role in doing so. One way that big data is helping maximize 3D printing’s capabilities is with quality control.
For example, “simple” objects such as children’s blocks may not carry high risk, but when it comes to objects such as car engines or essential parts used in surgeries, the risk factor increases significantly due to safety hazards. In any type of manufacturing, even the smallest of errors can result in fatal accidents or health issues. However, big data can analyze each printing action and internally inspect every element, detecting and correcting any possible imperfection to each product, therefore preventing product risks.
Another example of big data working with 3D printing in the manufacturing aspect is in the case of General Electric’s (GE) 3D printed jet engine fuel nozzle. The nozzle was built as a single piece made up of super alloy dust and then finished with lasers, and is 25% lighter and up to five times more durable than the current nozzle made from 20 different parts. However, since 3D printing is still fairly new to engineers, they have to figure out better quality control methods before they take their products to mass production facilities.
With big data, they can do just that. GE Aviation is developing inspection technology that can analyze manufacturing data and identify any issue (such as temperature anomalies) during production using a certain algorithm. Overall, with the use of big data, GE estimates that its inspection technology used for the production of aviation parts could increase production speeds by a quarter and reduce the time allotted for inspection after the product has been made.
Conclusion
The growth of 3D printing is moving fast and could ultimately provide realistic solutions to many different setbacks industry-wide. 3D printing is cost-effective, eco-friendly, and customizable, but when it works together with big data, the combined solution becomes even better as it sparks a new kind of technological revolution.
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3 Ways 3D Printing and Big Data Can Work Together
Printing in 3D has become a practical reality that has changed the way people think about production and manufacturing.
Now that the technology has matured, almost everything from smartphone cases to human organs can be 3D printed. Customized products and parts made by 3D printers have empowered entrepreneurs and sped repairs in many settings.
Extra capabilities resulting from the development of the Internet of Things and 3D Data Exchange & Translation promise to make 3D printing useful in new ways. Remote printing and the creation of objects from scans have combined with print sharing to make 3D printing an integral part of the business world. The advent of big data means that even more uses for 3D printing will soon emerge.
3D Printing and big data
Analytics technologies make big data useful to a growing number of markets that make new uses for affordable 3D printing. Both technologies accelerate the large-scale product customizations needed to serve targeted markets discovered through the use of big data.
Fields that have shown the potential to benefit from the integration of big data with 3D printing include computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering (CAE) as well as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM).
In each market segment, the two technologies have a mutually beneficial relationship. The following three examples will help you understand how big data and 3D printing can interact.
Data Visualization
Corporations increasingly turn to 3D printing to help them conceptualize the data they collect. The same holds true for small businesses and private individuals. Two MIT researchers designed a model of their campus and printed it using 3D printers. Streaming data on the mockup demonstrated how it can become a rigid framework that displays variable data.
Geospatial models that interact with big data can help city planners who study traffic patterns and other dynamic data. In the past, such professionals only had access to flat data, often printed on paper. Now, with 3D modeling, they can see multiple perspectives from a single experience. People can hold such models and share them together with alternate models to make better real-world decisions.
Data Storage
Driven substantially by big data, the world now generates about 2.
5 quintillion bytes of data every day, creating an enormous demand for storage. Companies of every size contribute to the storage challenge by hoarding the data they collect. From almost any perspective, big data will increasingly disrupt the world as businesses and governments use it to create predictions and make decisions.
The expense of data storage continues to grow along with data stores. Luckily, as the amount of big data grows, so does the speed at which 3D printing develops. The 3D printing market continues to grow and it is expected to reach $21 billion by 2020.
Technology that provides for the 3D printing of electronics has become necessary because of the applications such electronics have for creating electronic storage. Forthcoming technologies include Functionalize F-Electric, an electrically conductive filament that 3D printers can integrate into electronic circuit boards. Another promising development, Carbomorph, uses 3D printing technology to create custom electronic designs for portable devices.
Such developing technologies suggest that electronic circuits will become ubiquitous enough to meet the global demand for data storage.
Monitoring Manufacturing
The printing of 3D objects has revolutionized the manufacturing world. Companies use 3D printers to create prototypes and other models as well as the products they sell to business customers and consumers, disrupting traditional business practices. Now that companies can print large numbers of customized products, they can expand the appeal of their brand to niche markets.
Companies also use 3D printing for on-demand manufacturing, eliminating the need for large and diverse inventories. The technology also reduces the time required to develop products from concepts to marketable goods. In cases where a company intends to mass-market products, 3D printing gives them an easy way to validate the existence of demand before committing to high-cost production runs.
However, with 3D printing still being a relatively new technology, engineers need to create adequate quality control methods.
This is where big data can help. A company called GE Aviation has connected big data to 3D printing in order to collect and analyze manufacturing data to detect production problems in real time using strategically placed sensors. The technology identifies factors such as temperature and structural integrity, alignment, deflection, etc. The data that is gathered helps improve the quality of outputs from many manufacturing products.
Conclusion
Big data has changed the way businesses operate. Collecting information from multiple virtual and physical channels has provided unprecedented decision-making capabilities to firms of every size. Companies understand markets and customers better and use that information to use 3D printing technologies to deliver customized products to an almost unlimited number of clients.
Meanwhile, 3D printing provides the ability to create visual depictions of available data to help organizations communicate their ideas and compare solutions.
Ironically, 3D printing feeds the growth of big data. Ultimately, the relationship of 3D printing and big data becomes cyclic as 3D promises to increase the availability of storage available for use by big data applications.
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