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Gamechangers The Marvels of 3D Printing

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Lakshay Wadhwa

Vol. 12 | Issue 05 | 2021

Founder and CEO

Redefining Product Creation

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF 3D PRINTING – A REVOLUTION IN ITSELF

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he way 3D Printing has permeated into most industries is nothing short of an explosion. The past half-a-decade has seen a whopping rise in the demand and supply of 3D printing services. And, why not? It is a perfect blend of technology and art with precision.

While 3D printing is not a new concept, its demand and popularity have grown magnanimously over the past few years. It is expected to become a $20.2 billion global industry by 2024. Who had ever imagined that it was possible to have 3D printing of stem cells! But it is happening. Besides, 3D printing is being done for artificial limbs, dental applications, personalized medicine, and much more. Today, 3D printing is everywhere - in the automotive industry, commercial products, healthcare industry, education, architecture, prototyping, etc. Customization is another advantage of 3D prints. 3D printing has created jewellery designs never seen before.The list could be exhaustive by the end of this year.

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The increasing demand is not just a fad; rather, it is because 3D printing can communicate better than a flat-screen image or a paper printout with precise details of every aspect of the project or product. From merely prototyping for automobile and airplane industries around three decades back to the latest advancements, 3D has come a long way; and is here to stay.

There is growing expertise in 3D Printing in India. The best part of 3D printing is that it allows designers to identify the need for design revision quickly. These 3D printing service providers are constantly pushing the boundaries of 3D printing technology applications and emerging as global leaders. Apart from the printing technology, India is also house to printing machine manufacturers and spare parts of the machines.

With many 3D printing service providers mushrooming in the market and wooing customers with their lowcost services, we thought of simplifying things for

those seeking these services. In our latest edition of Insights Success, India's Most Admired 3D Printing Solution Providers, we featured the companies popular globally for their excellent 3D printing services.

Read this interesting edition to know more about the industry. Also, do read the articles curated by our editorial team. We hope this edition helps you choose the best service provider for your customized needs.

Happy reading to you!

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Blow the Horn How to Promote and Spread Awareness to make 3D Printing more Popular

Gamechangers The Marvels of 3D Printing

20 Forcyst

Thrust towards Innovation

24 Melt Rapid LLP

Bridging the Product Development Gap Effectively

32 printOmake

Creating smarter reality with Innovative 3D technology and design

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Solution Providers Company Name Forcyst Engineering

Management

Brief

Mohnish Zaveri, CEO Mehul Ambalia, Co-founder

Forcyst is a research & development company providing a complete start-toend service from concept to production to medical, pharmaceutical, automobile, and industrial sectors and thriving to deliver the clients the best engineering products.

GBT is formed by a group of professionals who are having more than 20 man years experience in the field of information technology, security and surveillance, software based and physical intrusion prevention.

GBT Solutions

Tuhin Bhattacharya, Director

Lycan 3D

Rahul Singh, CEO

Melt Rapid LLP

Ishan Bajpai, Founder and CEO

printOmake

Anket Hajare, Partner/Design Director

The services provided by printOmake make its 3D printing experience a ‘one-stopshop,’ which favours various markets from engineering to medical to education.

Shapefy

Lakshay Wadhwa, Founder and CEO

Shapefy provides end-to-end product development and manufacturing solutions, helping customers starting from just an idea to full scale manufacturing.

STPL

Rahul Gaywala, CEO

STPL is one of the very few global companies that offer total technology solutions for diamond manufacturing, including diamond analysis and planning, processing, cutting, blocking and polishing as well as safe diamond trading.

Lycan 3D makes 3D Printing accessible to the market while maintaining shorter delivery times, maximising creative freedom at an efficient rate in order to deliver the best value for its clientele.

Melt is a rapid production service providing to start-ups, which is bridging the gap between prototyping and production, with an initial focus of utilizing advanced 3D Printing technology to design and develop prototypes.

Lakshay Wadhwa Founder and CEO

Redefining Product Creation

The Shapifier As a founder of Shapefy, I have always wanted to breathe life into machines and ideas. My childhood was mostly spent playing a game called Mechanix. I used to construct mechanical models and projects using steel parts, nuts, bolts, wheels etc. I also tried repairing some of the electrical appliances at home, trying to fix them with whatever expertise I had of using a soldering iron, changing some burnt out resistors and capacitors, and instead I ended up making them non-functional in the process. All of this resulted in me developing an interest towards learning new things and implementing new ideas wherever possible.

In my early teens, I worked on some interesting electronics projects that ranged from simple push button LED lights to remote controlled cars. Eventually, I purchased my first 3D printer six years ago, to print some small models and providing 3D printing as a service. This led to Shapefy being born in one corner of my room, and the rest is history.

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s 3D printing infiltrates various industries, there are not enough engineers who have the background to design, perform and operate the machines. For additive manufacturing to become a common method, manufacturing companies must invest time and money in employee training for both incoming and seasoned engineers.

This can come at a challenge, though, since seasoned manufacturers are often reluctant to learn new technologies.

Also, the lack of awareness regarding different 3D printing technologies sometimes becomes a challenge. The technical know-how required to understand how the product will be manufactured and the kind of quality expected from each technology creates

a difference between expectation and reality. Delivering what is expected from an apex 3D Printing and Manufacturing firm Shapefy is making a difference in the 3D printing space.

Shapefy provides end-to-end product development and manufacturing solutions, helping customers starting from just an idea to full scale manufacturing. It helps individuals and businesses with their projects at any stage of development. “Our industrial engineers take care of all the designing and 3d printing iterations to provide the customer with a working prototype,” says Lakshay Wadhwa, Founder and CEO of Shapefy. This prototype can be used for design verification and initial level product testing.

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After this vacuum casting can be incorporated for low to medium quantities of looks-like models for beta/internal testing, marketing photography, investor pitches, trade shows or to fulfil initial customer orders. This process acts as a fail-safe method to test out the product before investing heavily into injection moulds and tooling.

For full scale production, the team of Shapefy provides injection moulding services in all commercially available materials, SPI grade finishes and Moldtech equivalent textures. “With a vast network of highly vetted manufacturing partners, no part is too big or too small for us,” shares Lakshay.

Functionality of Shapefy The company has developed a digital instant quote platform accessible through the web. It helps potential clients from across the industry get an instant quote for their products and move to production within minutes.

This helps save time and labour costs.

“The process of product development is highly accelerated with the help of our online platform as our clients can

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With both in-house setups and manufacturing partners model, we are always able to manage huge spikes in demand and deliver on time while maintaining quality and accuracy

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see results quickly,” shares the team of Shapefy.

Shapefy provides all kinds of rapid prototyping and manufacturing services including but not limited to 3D printing, Vacuum Casting, CNC machining and Injection moulding.

Under 3D Printing we have Desktop and Industrial FDM, Industrial SLA and DLP, SLS, MJF and even Metal Printing.

“With vacuum casting, you can get production quality parts at low volumes and without the high costs and lead times of steel or aluminium tooling,” informs Lakshay. This is helpful for bringing new products to market where one can get productiongrade products to test with new customers and markets and validate their design hypotheses before making a substantial investment to scale manufacturing.

Typically, each silicone mould will produce 25 castings. It is also ideal for prototyping elastomeric parts such as complex gaskets and over moulds on rigid parts.

CNC Machining service with instant quotes and feedback - Parts as fast as 2 days, Shapefy’s vetted network of precision CNC partners can hit tolerances as tight as +/- 0.005mm in more than 50 different plastics and metals. 3,4 and 5 axis CNC milling capabilities for simple and complex geometries. Standard and live tooling capabilities are implemented for cylindrical parts such as pins, shafts, or parts with general rotational symmetry.

Injection moulding services with low minimum order quantities and free manufacturability feedback with every

quote is facilitated by Shapefy. T1 samples can be made in as fast as 10 days with no minimum order quantities, the team of Shapefy can do rapid design moulds which are ideal for part design validation, low volume production, and bridge production quantities along with Production Tooling ideal for higher volume production parts, starting at 10,000 units with support for multi cavity tooling.

Shaping the Future of Printing Shapefy enables individuals and businesses to bring their ideas from inception to postproduction and fulfilment with its end-to-end solution offerings in 3D printing and manufacturing. Founded in 2017, Shapefy is headquartered in Hyderabad with a network of innovative partners around the world. The company has a network of over 100 businesses and has manufactured over 10 Lakh parts.

Unlike desktop printers or makerspaces, the Shapefy platform offers services from its own studios and global supply chain network.

Printing in over 50 materials and finishes, Shapefy provides 3D printing manufacturing solutions to individuals and businesses of all sizes across a multitude of industries. Businesses in medical, robotics, drones, education, consumer products, to name a few, have all benefited from direct access to the most innovative technology and industrial-quality materials.

The company not only caters to businesses and corporates but also focuses on individuals and studentsfor their small projects. Its online platform really makes it easy for individuals to place and manage orders. Its team also

works with a lot of startups to help develop their products and guide them throughout their product life cycle.

The team of Shapefy plans to further dive into the B2C space, targeting normal school and college going students. “This is where we think we can make the biggest impact,” suggests Lakshay. Incorporating 3D printing much early into the product development will result in a surge of new technological advances. This is where our online digital platform comes into picture. Project management and guided quote generation makes it easy for a normal consumer to go online and order 3D prints and machined parts, etc., for their projects.

“We plan to revamp our online digital platform to bring more accurate pricing for all 3D printing technologies along with other traditional methods of Vacuum casting, CNC Machining and Injection moulding,” states Lakshay. It will further allow the team of Shapefy to save labour costs in preparing manual quotes and conduct deep manufacturability analysis.

The initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a sudden decline in the 3D printing and the manufacturing demand as most companies stopped their research, development, and prototyping phases.

But somehow this resulted in even more startups coming up with Covidrelated products helping in detection, education, relief, and adherence to COVID-19 guidelines etc. “We plan on leveraging our expertise for customers to get their Covid-19 solutions or products designed and manufactured seamlessly,” concludes Lakshay.

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D printing is at a tipping point and is about to go mainstream to its bigger picture. Many executives and engineers agree on the fact that this technology is moving beyond prototyping, from developing tools, trinkets, and toys to large machines and infrastructures.

Additive manufacturing is creating a safe, reliable, and durable environment for the products and is creating a stable platform for the real customers in moderate to large quantities.

There are diversified industries including aviation. medical, home application, automobile, and consumer electronics that are using 3D printing to ramp up their production.

The advantage of 3D technologies is that they are "cutting edge". Few firms are being true pioneers in implementing 3D printing to enhance their brand while communicating the benefits in a concise and value-added way.

As a result, many of the customers would not completely understand the advantages of the new 3D services, and so companies need to engage them with services that are specific as per their requirements.

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Promoting 3D printing services include: Providing Samples to Engage Customers Companies can leverage the advancements of 3D printing by engaging their customers with impressive and diversified samples to display to them what is possible using 3D printers and scanners.

If the client is an automotive designer, showcasing effective solutions about how they can design and build automotive parts from a 3D printer can develop a good connection between attracting that customer to use the services.

Moreover, companies can display a 3D-printed booth mockup by providing customers with an STL or CAD file for test printing.

Besides, companies can make sure the materials they are using in their samples are diversified such as wax, rubber, polymers, nylon, carbon fiber, metal, etc., including color options with diversified plastics, and resins.

The demand for printable 3D materials is constantly increasing. The more materials companies are showcasing, these products are more likely to impress their audience.

Targeting Potential Customer Audience The variety of industries using 3D technology may shock you today. Invisalign, a leading medical equipment manufacturing company implements using 3D printers to produce clear, custom orthodontic braces.

A shoe company wanted prototypes of different designs and used 3D printing to get samples faster and cheaper.

Moreover, there was a tool manufacturer that required 3D samples to ensure that its products were compact and handy, and its switches are easily accessible.

So, who are the effective solution providers?

The answer is just about promoting business that enables possibilities and never forgets about consumers. They will be amazed if companies in 3D printing can provide sustainable and quality assured 3D prints, products, and novelties.

Digital signage companies, ad agencies, industrial and commercial prototyping, packaging, marketing firms, premiums, and incentives. There are several industries including aviation, automotive, consumer products, healthcare, governments, architecture, and engineering where 3D printing can enable innovations and open doors to new possibilities.

3D printing companies can highlight the products and services that are inevitable in these sectors, enabling widespread by promoting efficient 3D printing services.

Delivering the Value of 3D Technologies While 3D printing is innovative and exciting, its advantages are beneficial to most businesses' wants like good quality, reduced material, and labor costs, faster time to market, maximum flexibility in design, and mass customization.

Even complex 3D components are generally feather light and, depending on technology and material, they are equipped with better build quality and are more robust. The best thing is that companies can offer extraordinary cost savings to their clients while still marking up the company's products substantially.

If any company has purchased a 3D printer, the company can manage on-site demonstrations with an expert on hand to explain how these machines work.

On the other hand, getting an expert from the company to perform demonstrations can ease things to comprehend the use of 3D printing devices if you have not purchased the equipment yet. People feel more at ease while purchasing when they are comprehending 3D printing with accuracy and technical information.

Creating Innovative Brand Image Today, anyone can purchase a consumer-level 3D plastic printer and claim to offer "3D Print Services." With such initial investment anyone can get a printer that can jet plastic and produce small, uninterrupted objects with extremely simple shapes, with quality assured production.

Companies can choose to work with such individuals with an experienced 3D studio. It not only enables access to high-end machines that can print complex geometries, functional parts, and full-color models but also comprehend valuable knowledge to properly operate equipment to achieve cumulative results.

An essential fundamental in 3D printing is creating sustainable solutions with quality, durability, concerning time and delivery assurance.

On the brighter side, delivering quality services by comprehending experience in a 3D printing studio enables companies to create an immense brand value. These are a few effective methods to promote services by creating awareness about how 3D printing is enabling innovations in numerous industries. ·

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esearch and development (R&D) play a vital role and provides massive resources while designing products that require core engineering. With innovations and new emerging trends in technology, the (R&D) industry experienced new and enhanced features to boost the concept designing and production.

The trends in technology provided opportunities to companies for accomplishing their goals with engaging ideas and seamlessly expanded their services for different industries. Since then, many companies have come into the spotlight with the developments in working with significant R&D skillset and exceptional use of modern technologies.

Forcyst, being a prominent name in the research and development space since 2016, provides complete start-toend services from concept to production with the thirst and mindset for developing innovative products. It holds an impeccable record in high quality, timely completion, and safe solutions to mechanical and electronics industry projects.

In an exclusive interview with Insights Success, Mohnish Zaveri, the

Founder, and CEO, of Forcyst, sheds light on the professional tenure of Forcyst in the research and development industry, Kindly brief us about Forcyst and its journey so far.

Forcyst was an idea to develop products with a focus on core engineering. I started it as a freelancer in the year 2015, providing computer-aided designs on a project basis. In, 2016 along with my college batchmate Mehul Ambalia, I decided to take the journey further together with the same goal and mindset. Luckily, we got our first break in the design and prototyping field with our first technological project for IIT Bombay, Powai. We slowly got our hands-on experience in design and prototyping, exploring different cost-effective solutions.

Being the technological company in the service industry, we have always concentrated on the four main pillars for each project which are always solution-based, that is, technology, cost-effective, lead time, and quality assurance. What started as a designing service provider in 2016 was successfully evolving year after year into a full-fledged product development

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We offer hig h q ua lity, tim ely c om p letion, a nd sa fe solutions to p rojec ts in a ny m ec ha nic a l a nd elec tronic s fleld .

Ind ia 's Most Innova tive 3D Printing Solution Provid ers company with its complete focus on core engineering. Today, as we see Forcyst, it is the one-stop solution for all product development needs, right from an idea to a marketed product under a single roof. The technological progress is taking Forcyst to the next level year after year.

dedicated workforce entity. Over the years, there have been many motivational personalities all over the world whom we look up to and who have inspired us in many ways. Our goal is simple: we need to be better than yesterday. We strongly believe in the thought of “one team, one dream!”

What was the motivation behind commencing Forcyst in the research and development industry?

The feeling of bringing your ideas into existence is a dream come true for anybody. The thirst and mindset for developing innovative products and finding solutions for day-to-day problems have been within from early days, which got wings during our graduation and later shaped into the

Brief us about the services and products that Forcyst offers.

Forcyst is a research & development company providing a complete start-toend service from concept to production to medical, pharmaceutical, automobile, and industrial sectors and thriving to deliver the clients the best engineering products. Our integrated services span the project life cycle from feasibility studies, consulting services,

provision of proprietary technologies, design engineering, raw materials, and project management, along with aftersale technical support. We offer high quality, timely completion, and safe solutions to projects in any mechanical and electronics field.

Over the span of fewer than five years, Forcyst has developed innovative products and has diversified immensely in building a trusted brand and created one of the desired workable organisations with strong work ethics. Over these years, we have specialised in the Six main domains, that are: • Research & development, • Design & development, • Prototyping, • Analysis & simulation,

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Batch Production and manufacturing, Project management.

What unique propositions does Forcyst offer, giving it an edge over its competitors?

As Forcyst provides complete product development from start to end, we believe that the combination of core mechanical and electronics with prototyping and manufacturing under one roof is the need of the hour and has given us a unique identity in the market as one of the key players in the product development field. Our team always focuses on the combination of cost-effective, least delivery time, and highest quality outputs for any projects or services.

3D printing being a niche area, what are the challenges that this sector poses?

3D Printing has become quite a competitive market because it has its own requirements, customers, and products. The first most important step in any prototyping project is selecting the best suitable technology for it. Our technical team understands the requirement of clients and studies them thoroughly to arrive at a selected method.

The main challenge is to maintain the consistency and quality output within committed lead time at economical rates. It is assumed that 3D printing is a full machine dependency job, but in actual it is equally both machine and manual dependency work where output depends on the technical person’s inputs at different prototyping stages.

Various industries utilise 3D printing. Are there any specific sectors that Forcyst focuses on?

Please share.

We provide prototyping services to industries like medical & pharma, automobiles, electrical, and fastmoving consumer goods and products (FMCG).

What has been the effect of the pandemic on Forcyst, and how do you plan to or have already countered the same?

The pandemic has affected the global markets adversely. Since we are into service industries and are dependent on the supply chain, the first lockdown in March 2020 got us on the toes for the next six months. First, we ensured the safety of all our team members at offices and production units and implemented the work from systems for our maximum workforce.

Since the supply chain was getting disturbed, the team ensured that the ongoing projects were completed at the earliest before completing the standstill. We are a product development company with all resources to develop, test and manufacture. We quickly took the responsibility of playing our part in the pandemic by manufacturing the ventilators, oxygen hoods, medical essentials, safety goggles, and sanitiser bottles.

In this way, we ensured that our production units ran uninterrupted with a 25% workforce on the shop floor and the rest working from home. We have implemented the policies of work from home till March 2022 for different divisions within the company.

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According to you, what is that one recent development in 3D printing that could possibly be the next big trend?

If we consider the Indian market, there have been good variants of affordable desktop printers launched by overseas companies in collaboration with Indian companies. The best part is it comes with a wide range of material selections. So, these days even professionals like doctors, engineers, and freelancers can use these desktop printers for their daily work. Metal 3D printing is still quite costly in India, so there is huge potential in various sectors if there are affordable solutions for metal 3D printing.

Brief us about Forcyst's future perspectives.

Forcyst, being in the service industry, has always focussed on strengthening the core technical team, implementing cutting-edge technologies, and simultaneously expanding the production facilities so we can provide many options to our clients. It will be a bit early to say at this stage, but Forcyst is coming upcoming up with a new production facility in 2022, that will focus on advanced design, research & development, and manufacturing services to cater to defense, aerospace, automobiles, and medical products.

The year 2023 will be a very important year for Forcyst as it will benchmark its footsteps with the launch of its homegrown products. The company will release an official statement timely through its various platforms; till then, kindly follow our website www.forcyst.com to know for more updates.

Ishan Bajpai, Founder and CEO

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D printing is an exciting industry that is rapidly advancing in popularity and affordability. The main aspect of 3D printing, which makes it exciting is its versatility. 3D printing is now being utilized in almost every industrial vertical: Architecture, Medical, Manufacturing, Packaging, Jewelry, Dental, Automobile, Space Tech, and so on.

Though the adoption on a larger scale is still in process but, understanding the advantages of the technology over conventional methods is attracting companies to invest and improvise their productivity. The main challenge irrespective of the industry is that adopting 3D printing on a larger scale will still need time to match the industry-specific processes in a streamlined manner.

One such company that provides endto-end rapid production solutions is Melt Rapid LLP. The company tries to cater to the complete solution from prototyping to manufacturing under one roof, which has led the company to be the leading service provider in the same across Eastern India.

Melt is founded single handily by Ishan Bajpai, Founder and CEO of the company, who is a mechanical engineer having experience in product design and development, who has successfully converted his passion into his work and is working towards bridging the product development gap effectively.

In the interview below, Ishan talks about the challenges and journey of Melt Rapid.

Kindly brief us about your company and its journey so far.

Melt is a rapid production service providing to start-ups, which is

bridging the gap between prototyping and production, with an initial focus of utilizing advanced 3D Printing technology to design and develop prototypes. We are now providing prototyping as well as production solutions, also covering industrial manufacturing methods such as sheet metal fabrication, injection moulding etc. Started in the eastern region of the country i.e., Kolkata, West Bengal and expanded into Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Patna, and Bihar. Currently, we are providing services across PAN India.

Talking about the journey, I would say that it has just begun and like any other start-up it was never easy, developing a strong vision to land in a competitive market was itself challenging. It is because of those few people who show their support in your journey be it your friends, flatmates, family, or any other person who has trusted or have shown faith in your vision either financially, morally, or psychologically. It was the reason that we have come this far, though still, we have a lot more to go.

Already I have been failed a few times in my earlier projects because of lack of funding, time, and support. I was looking for something that could just sync with my passion, and it was then when it struck my mind that it is not the final goal that I am aiming for but the process where I can implement my ways, thoughts, emotions and develop something out of it. For the first few months, I was working on my own, managing both my office as well as my work at the same time, it was hard but not impossible.

I started operating from my P.G. room, where I had managed to convince my flatmates to install a small machine in the kitchen. It was difficult for me to manage both the 8 hours of job and then again 8-9 hours of work for my startup. I had many sleepless weeks,

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where I used to complete my sleep in the office during lunch hours. For the startups, I used to conduct meetings in café and restaurants and used to take orders based on my design and development skills. Those days of struggle made us improvise our lead time from weeks to few days as of now.

Brief us about the featuring person and the motivation behind choosing this particular industry?

I have always been passionate about upcoming and trending technologies, which can add something to national

development. Additive manufacturing just synced with my thought process as it was something new that came up and had a very huge market ranging from Automobile, Aerospace, and Industrial to Medical and Healthcare.

The basic requirement in this technology was a visualization of products and their production process and being a designer that is what I have been doing for the past four to five years. This inspired me a lot and hence I just kept learning more about it. After gaining much knowledge from the internet, I made up my mind to just start by focusing on a small market area and then slowly expanding to the greater ones. As I was much confident by then knowing what my skills are and what is required in this very market.

Brief us about the services and products that the company offers.

We showcase ourselves as a Product Design and Development service bureau, where we are utilizing 3D Printing as a prime method to provide the solutions. We are focused on the services side (Design, Prototyping, Reverse engineering and so) and some part in setting up rapid prototyping labs (3D Printers, Filaments and more) in industries and institutes in order to promote and increase the awareness of the technology.

What are the unique propositions that the company offers giving it an edge over competitors?

Our approach has always been customer-oriented where we keep the complete process from handling the client, guiding them throughout the process of the order, packaging, delivery and to after-sales support simple and convenient. Special attention to any damage deliveries, which might happen due to courier

mishandling was to tend to replace the order with a new one, no question asked.

3D printing is utilised by various industries. Are there any specific sectors that the company focuses on?

Please share.

As said, we are a service bureau where we are not specific to any industry although as per current time we are being approached more by industries in Manufacturing, Bio-Medical, Electronics, Engineering, and Dental sectors.

Our flexible business model has allowed us to work with companies in the vast industrial segment like Gifts, Miniatures and Sculpting, Jigs and Fixtures, etc., which allow the clients to explore our strong technical knowledge and utilize it in their favor.

What has been the effect of the pandemic on the company and how do you plan to or have already countered the same?

Pandemic was a major hit across the globe breaking the supply chain across all the industrial sectors leading to the shutting down of various businesses.

Instead of breaking down, my company took this as an opportunity to find a product meeting the demand during that time and eventually, we came up with a highly demanding product - Face Shield.

My company along with the national 3D printing community developed few designs of the face shield and using the 3D printing technology we were able to quickly bring them to market, which could have only been possible via this technology. Considering the circumstances, it was not a downtime for us in fact we supported a lot of hospitals and front-line workers in our region.

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According to you what is that one recent development in 3D printing that could possibly be the next big trend?

Two advancements in 3D printing that could possibly mould the way manufacturing or development will be done in the coming future are in the areas of metal and construction.

Considering the current progress in the mentioned fields there would be a time where 3D printing houses and metal fabrication will be a common thing across the nation, reducing time to market and improving product functionality and material properties.

Brief us about the company’s future perspectives.

With our stream of work in the product development domain, our future plan holds growth and expansion in the same also to add more similar solutions to broaden our portfolio. Considering trends in this sector we have been observing exponential growth across the past two years and expecting the same in the coming time as well.

Having said that we are also working towards including as many industries as possible to increase the reach and awareness of the technology.

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n our everyday lives, active involvement of technology and its innovations in redefining the boundaries of productivity and creativity. These innovations gave rise to emerging trends like 3D printing.

Since the commencement of 3D printing, it is not only enabling cost-effective solutions but is also increasing the working efficiency in several industries. Levering the advancements in technology 3D printing is enabling sustainability that includes: Low-Cost Service In the 3D printing sector, services are providing online manufacturing of required products. This means that you can upload your design, get an instant quote about pricing, see your products being made almost immediately.

This is a colossal step forward from the complex traditional method earlier used in manufacturing and it is significantly saving time and production costs. As a result, applications compatible with 3D printing technology are experiencing growth on a daily basis.

Flexibility in Production and Manufacturing Implementing traditional manufacturing methods in designing complex products was difficult. 3D printing enabled efficiency for

designers and entrepreneurs by providing them with new printing materials, including metal, fabric, resulting in expanding the scope for adopting 3D printing to multiple sectors.

Industries like automobile, energy, aerospace, and real estate are being efficiently driven by the involvement of this technology and its presence is being felt across the industrial spectrum, around the globe.

Powering Medical Advancements 3D printing is making new developments in the field of medical science. The victims of accidents are being provided with 3D printed bone implants that are created with absolute precision.

These implants often mean that metal plates or fastenings do not require surgeries for their removals after the bone is healed.

Treatments are significantly influenced by such preoperative models and surgeries are being substantially reduced at times. 3D printing is powering new developments in the medical field with consistency.

Enabling Sustainability The consistent and streamlined process of 3D printing is eventually speeding up production

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schedules and is reducing manufacturing time for the long-haul procedures and reducing energy consumption altogether.

The method of additive manufacturing produces less waste compared with any other manufacturing process, and when it comes to plastic, these factors are driving the growth towards a sustainable clean environment.

In this modern age, 3D printing is redefining the boundaries of creativity and expanding the frontiers of what is possible.

Here is a glimpse of how 3D printing is enabling eye-catching innovations:

of muscles. These are attached to the bot's 3D printed backbone. These bots are functional when students shine a blue light to get them to contract, possessing them to exercise for building strength. The contraction of these muscles is driving their movements consistently.

Fixing Fractured Bones With 3d BioPrinted Silk from Spiders and Moths South Korea's Rural Development Administration and Hallym University created a modular 3D silk printing system that produces components that are suitable to use within a living organism.

3D Printed Robots from Living Tissues Students at the University of California are creating Bio-bots – tiny bots indulged with living tissues. They can move and walk, but they do not have any electronic parts.

This system is developing new silk 'filament' is made from fibroin protein that also constitutes seventy-five per cent of the silk, naturally produced from the spiders and moth larva. This fibroin is being used to recreate the plates and screws that are being used to fix broken bones.

What they do have are muscles. These students have cultured cells within a hydrogel so that they grow into rings

The First-Ever 3D Printed Office An infra-structure created using a 20foot-tall 3D printer with a 120-foot

robotic arm sits in Dubai. It has enabled tremendous cost efficiency in construction-related expenses including labour and waste and saved a lot of time for the process. Leaders in real estate are predicting 3D printing is evolving properties and is changing the ideas of traditional brick and mortar houses.

Properties that are built using 3D printers are convenient and are easy for the users to operate efficiently, as they are prefabricated. There is a similarity between these houses and the ones that are made from Lego.

A Respiratory Diagnostic Device Maya Verma, a student from Stanford University California has developed a diagnostic device made from a 3D printer that can analyse a patient's breathing patterns and rectify if the person is suffering from pulmonary disease.

One of the tools that are available for this procedure is a spirometer, however, it is expensive. Just like a spirometer, this device consists of a 3D printed mouthpiece, an electronic board, and a smartphone.

This device works by getting the breath of the patient into its 3D printed mouthpiece that is connected by the PCB that processes the data and a smartphone gives out precise results, eventually leading to the diagnosis.

Enabling Innovations for A Sustainable Future It is inspirational to experience the emerging uses of 3D printers and the innovations that are happening across the industries. This technology is playing a vital role in developments with efficiencies that are driven by 3D printers. It is a drive towards a sustainable future.

- Abhishek Joshi

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