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Tailored luminaires for a circular economy
Mass-market, on-demand tailored luminaires that can be recycled. Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
Benefits
Tailored design for everyone
With 3D-printed luminaires, you can personalize, customize and tweak your luminaire to uniquely fit your needs by selecting the shape, pattern, color and size, lumen output, driver and optics.
Delivered to you at a high speed
Being able to 3D-print a luminaire the same day it was designed, shrinks the process from development, to production, delivery and installation from what might have been months to a matter of weaks.
Sustainable and circular by default
Our luminaires have less parts and don’t use glue. Manufactured and assembled locally, a typical finished luminaire (excluding electronics and optics) has a 47% lower carbon footprint than a similar conventionally manufactured metal luminaire. It is 35% lighter, resulting in carbon savings when shipping. At the end of life, the luminaire’s polycarbonate material can be shredded and re-used.
Quality lighting you can depend on
As the world leader in lighting, we’re skilled in the development, manufacture and sale of innovative, energy-efficient lighting products, systems, and services. Our LED luminaires use quality materials and meet all the expectations you have of a Philips lighting product.
Applications
Retail and Hospitality
Create a unique instore and hospitality experience, with luminaires that are unique, customized to your brand and energy-efficient.
We can help you future-proof your store by recycling your 3D-printed luminaire and printing a new design. We’ll keep you ahead of the competition and support your sustainability goals.
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Office
Upgrade your office lighting to LED and reduce your energy spend by up to 80%. Our 3D-printed LED luminaires are retrofit and can be designed to fit any fixture or ceiling - no need for new light fittings. They’re a great way to improve aesthetics and save on energy and refurbishment costs.
How it works
Step by step define your tailored lighting creations
Whether functional or decorative, we enable you to choose from a rich collection of various shapes and sizes.
With the vast choice in materials you can make your fixtures blend or stand out.
Lines, woven, technology grooves, or just normal finish? It’s all possible.
Pick the right lumen output, driver settings, optics and other options for tailoring your light.
Finally, confirm your design and we‘ll print and deliver – fast, convenient and reliable.
Our products
Professional products
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Professional products
Consumer products
To create customized 3D-printable Philips LED lamps for your home click the button below.
Consumer products
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Presented by
Remco Duchhart
Manager Format Development, at Albert Heijn
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Jaap van der Linden
Product manager Telecaster
www.tailoredlightingcreations.com
Manager Brand Guidelines & Visual Identity,
Albert Heijn Europe - Sep 2012 till present
- Visual Identity Guidance
- Creating corporate brand movie
- Visual identity: AH XL Leidschendam, AH XL Eindhoven, AH ToGo Reguliersbreestraat & Damrak, AH.nl
- International projects: Concept&Design Albert Supermarkets (CR), Fresh market project Ahold US
In the past years Jaap has been active in product development for outdoor applications in Europe.
Fuelling the transition to LED based solutions. He has driven the Create the Livable city program, a platform where over 150 professionals in urban place making have been designing and prototyping lighting solutions that contribute to our future livable cities.
In his current role as a product manager he uses 3D printing technology to develop new lighting solutions for indoor applications. He also leads the sustainability program that aims to use recycled polycarbonate as a basis to produce 3D printed products.
Key topics and learnings
3D printing has been around for a while. And now the lighting industry is transforming again with this revolutionary new technology that allows you to create your tailored luminaires at a fraction of the cost of bespoke lighting.
With 3D printing you can completely have your design and therefore fits your business to a tee.
3D printed luminaires are the redefinition of fast, flexible and sustainable. Ideal for every project, office, chain or store.
Ideal for prototyping and creating unique designs in small series. Right now in lighting, we start using 3D printing on an industrial scale. Major customers like Marks & Spencer’s, Albert Heijn, SAS, Total & Praxis are using 3D printed solutions.
Create unique store experiences which can be easily adapted to new trends without wasting materials. Tailor your lighting design with circular economy ready luminaires.
But why? What are the benefits?
Listen to what our customers have to say and how they have used this to create an unique store experience, how they adapted this to new trends without wasting materials.
Here are the learning objectives of this webinar:
- What types of flexibility/customization are enabled by 3D printing so that specifiers can better serve their customers?
- How 3D printing contributes to sustainability and supports circular economy?
- How customers like LAPD that worked on M&S and Albert Heijn experienced working with 3D printed solutions?
- What 3D printing can bring in the near future?
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What technologies underlie 3D printing?
The plethora of 3D printing techniques currently on the market does not preclude continued ongoing research to develop more innovative technologies. Although the material differs depending on the printing method used, each technology has its own advantages. They are mainly related to the specific applications for which these printers are intended.
3D Printing Technology Overview
The 3D printing technologies available today are grouped into three main families.
These include printing by wire deposition or extrusion (FFF, FDM), the use of liquid photosensitive resin (SLA, DLP), and finally the use of powder or sintering (SLS, SLM, DMLS).
Fusion or extrusion printing allows you to create an object layer by layer. It involves the use of plastic thread. Placed on the printhead, the latter melts and deposits superimposed layers on the print platform.
As for the liquid photosensitive resin, it is cured by projector or laser. This operation, also known as polymerization, causes the object to be created to form inside the tray containing the resin. Stereolithography (SLA) is one of the technologies that regularly uses this printing process. ₽
An energy source - for example, a laser - melts metal powder previously placed in a 3D printer tank. The term used for this type of printing is powder sintering or laser sintering. This is a technology with several options: SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) or SLM (Selective Laser Melting).
Molten filament printing
Two expressions are used to characterize this technology. The first, FDM, comes from English (Fused Deposition Modeling).
As for the second one, FFF, it stands for Fused Filament Fabrication. The term extrusion is another name for this 3D printing process. The consumables are plastic filament (PLA or AB).
A 3D printer has a print head, also called a nozzle. It is on this nozzle that the previously heated fiber is melted. The nozzle moves along two axes, x and y, parallel to the print platform, which moves in the vertical direction. Only after the first layer is completed, the print platform lowers along its axis.
Molten thread is applied layer by layer to create a 3D object. The fusion of the various layers is due to the rapid solidification of the molten plastic. As soon as the layers of plastic are stacked on top of each other, we get a designed object, the model of which is visible on the computer screen. Extrusion can also be carried out using an energy source such as a laser and by direct application of energy. This 3D printing mode, better known by its acronym DED (Directed Energy Deposition), can be found on some industrial printers. The material pushed out by the energy source then melts before being fused into an object.
3D printing by polymerization of photosensitive resin
The use of SLA or DLP technology is typical for 3D printers using resin as the printing material. The process of their printing is polymerization. It refers to the curing of the photosensitive resin under the influence of a light source such as a laser or a light projector. The liquid resin in the printer tray hardens as a result of the reaction created by the light beams.
The print tray is located at the bottom of the tray that holds the liquid resin. A DLP projector or SLA laser emits light that hardens the resin from layer to layer. Finishing the layer allows the tray to sink further into the tray and so on until the object is made.
Having parts that require a high level of detail and resolution on the smooth side is a reason to use a 3D printer such as an SLA or DLP printer. Areas such as jewelry and medicine are the most common areas where this printing process is used. The production of molds intended for the manufacture of jewelry or dentures requires both precision and finesse.
Only resin polymerization makes it possible to distinguish between the two categories of SLA and DLP printers. On a DLP printer, the resin hardens layer by layer. In an SLA printer, on the other hand, it solidifies point by point. In addition, a DLP printer uses a projector, while an SLA printer uses a laser to print.
3D powder melt printing
Four technologies use this 3D printing process. These are powder sintering and melting, material grinding, paper lamination and, finally, 3D bioprinting.
The use of metal powder as printing material is common in the industrial sector.
Selective laser sintering or selective laser melting are two 3D printing technologies that use powder. In the field of aviation, for example, this technology allows the production of highly complex parts intended for use in aircraft.
Spraying or inkjet printing of material is a printing process in which molten material is deposited on a printing platform. The object is formed by the layer-by-layer solidification of the previously melted material. Multi-Jet Modeling (MJM) is another name for this printing method.
The 3D printing technology known as lamination uses paper or aluminum foil as the material. Objects produced using this technique are distinguished by the perspective of details and colors. The decoration and toy manufacturing sector are those who regularly use this technology.
The creation of living cells or organic tissues is the field of bioprinting experiments. This scientific process represents a real revolution in the field of medicine. Ultimately, bioprinting aims to produce functional organs or living tissues.
While this technology is at the experimental stage. 3D bioprinters with this printing ability are not yet a reality. However, if they existed, such machines would make it possible to create organs and treat many pathologies.
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Types of photopolymer printers. Likbez
Greetings!
Recently, photopolymer printing has been developing rapidly, new types and subspecies of printer designs are emerging. As a result, the terminology is formed spontaneously and there is some chaos in it. I'll try to clarify the situation a little. It will focus mainly on desktop printers.
SLA (less often SL) - short for stereolithography. This is a general name for photopolymer printing, not tied to a specific image or radiation source.
But, since it all started back in the 80s with industrial printers that used a laser, this has become the name of laser printers. That is, just an SLA printer is a laser printer.
Clarification added to SLA to refer to other illumination technologies. For example, SLA DLP, SLA DUP, but more often in these cases, SLA is generally discarded, and just DLP / DUP / LCD printers remain.
Typical desktop SLA printers: RK-1, Form 1, Form 2 Pros:
High accuracy, yet large printable area
Minimum stray light
Cons:
the entire layer is exposed
From the point of view of self-assembly, the SLA printer is rather complicated. There is also no decent open slicer (correct me if I'm wrong).
DLP (Digital Light Processing) is a video projector imaging technology developed by Texas Instruments. A printer on a DLP projector, respectively a DLP printer. Unfortunately, recently the name DLP has been used for LCD printers such as Wanhao D7 and KLD-LCD1260, causing confusion.
LCD printers do not have projectors, so DLP has nothing to do with them.
So why DLP? There are also projectors for other technologies. 3LCD technology - in the emission spectrum of such projectors there are not enough wavelengths necessary for curing the photopolymer, therefore they are not used in printer building. LCoS technology - used in the expensive segment of projectors. Old LCoS projectors with a lamp light source seemed to be suitable for printers. They could be called LCoS printers. Now laser light sources are used. So far, nothing is known about the suitability of such projectors, and their cost prevents verification. LCD projectors. They differ from 3LCD in the presence of only one matrix and the absence of a block of prisms. Noble manufacturers do not make such printers. And the use of Chinese is hindered by their low power, poor quality of optics and general squalor. For normal operation, a deep modernization is required. As a result, it turns out easier and even cheaper to buy a noble used DLP projector.
So for now, DLP projectors are out of competition.
Principle of operation:
Advantages of terminology:
Good speed due to the illumination of the entire layer
Simplicity
Possibility to change balance accuracy/speed/region size
Cons:
Problems with parasitic illumination of different types and fall of accuracy
speed with increased printable area
In terms of self-assembly, a DLP printer is just what the doctor ordered. The beauty is that the most high-tech part of the printer (the projector) is designed and mass-produced by reputable brands for another, huge market, which bears the burden of development and production. As a result, a high-tech, but relatively affordable device falls into our hands. It is scary to imagine how much such a device would cost if it was developed only for the 3D printer market.
Thus, a high-tech DLP printer turns out to be much simpler than a primitive FDM printer :D The printer builder needs to make a normal Z-axis and a decent body.
The rest is trifles. There is a good open software, a lot of information on the assembly. In short, urgently build everyone;)
Typical representatives: B9 Creator, EGL1, JAP DLP LCD . Alternative name for DUP (Direct UV Printing). A new technology that has been rapidly developed due to the low cost of printers. Very similar not to DLP, but the image is formed in a different way. There is an LCD-matrix under the bottom of the bath, the source of radiation is a powerful LED. The image of the layer is displayed on the matrix. White pixels transmit radiation, black pixels do not. Thus, the matrix acts as a mask. The idea is not new. There were many experiments, but the matrices warmed up, died, cut the required range ... in general, the idea at that time was recognized as dead. But everything has changed with the advent of ultra-thin high-resolution IPS matrices. Now it works.
Advantages of terminology:
Low cost
Simplicity
Cons:
The same problems with various types of stray illumination, plus additional blurring due to the lack of an image focusing system
Unknown matrix resource and its dependence on LED power (yet)
Acceptable print speed only possible with very fast resins
Typical: Wanhao D7, KLD-LCD1260, JAP LCD (under construction)
Despite some raw technology, we should expect an avalanche growth in the number of such printers.
For self-assembly, of course, an extremely attractive option. Not much information yet, but it's temporary.
There is also a little-known subspecies of LCD printers. These are 'daylight' polymer printers. A white LED or native matrix illumination (as in the OLO project) is used as a radiation source. Unfortunately, the creation of polymers 'daylight' is associated with some difficulties, so this direction is in its infancy. Yes, and using a polymer that hardens in visible light is not convenient.
From the point of view of consumables, the listed technologies are not exactly incompatible, but there are nuances. In general, polymers for DLP and LCD should contain more additives than SLA to suppress stray light. Slow polymers for DLP will not work properly on LCD.
I'll mention a couple more hybrid technologies, where photopolymers are used in one way or another. In desktop versions, as far as I know, do not exist.
MJM (Multi Jet Modeling).
