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HIPF’s Top Trainees in Japan Mitsubishi Corporation initiated the project “Study and Training Program” especially for HIPF Top Trainees. The project started last month and shall continue twice a year. The trainees visited Japans’ factories equipped with high technology, such as Toyota, Mit-subishi Chemicals etc. They also visited some regions severely hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
3D Printing...Additive Manufacturing
HIPF Trainees posing with Mitsubishi Corporations’ Executives and former Japan ambassador to Saudi Arabia, his Excellency Mr. Shigeru Endo @ Mitsubishi Head Office, Tokyo, Japan.
The new era has begun for customized manufacturing which moves away from mass manufacturing. It may be the most eye catching innovation in the field of printing that is, 3D printing which is actually known as Additive manufacturing. 3D printing or additive manufacturing has the potential to bring major changes in the fields like art, medicine, construction, aerospace, manufacturing, sciences, transportation, fashions, etc; through cutting cost and breaking time bounding with customized product with the help of computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing (CAD CAM). 3D printers work on the principle of creating three dimensional object built by adding many layers of desired material like PLASTIC, GLASS, CERAMIC, METALS etc. to make complete object. It is just similar to two dimensional X, Y axis printing on a paper and added third dimension ‘Z’ axis. In other words it is just like making a multi layer cake by adding successive layer to prepare complete cake with precision control. A 3D printer receives command through CAD file created with the use of 3D Modeling program. The 3D printer prints layers one over another until the entire object is completely made in three dimensions. This type of printing technology helps to eliminate subtractive manufacturing, Various 3D Printing Methods used to prepare a customized product includes stereo lithography (SLA), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Poly Jet Photopolymer, Syringe Extrusion, Selective Laser Melting (SLM), and Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) and others.
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References:Bloomberg’s business week online magazine / 3D printers official website.
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S pecial P oints of I nterest:
I n T his issue :
• Recent Path Breaking Innovations in the field of Plastics.
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• Selected International Plastics centered events and exhibitions.
FOR PLASTICS FABRICATION
Courtesy of GE Aviation
• HIPF ‘s Top Trainees Visit to Japan.
Gear Pump for molten plastics in extrusion process
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SABIC-A leading petrochemical giant
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Akron’s Applied Polymer Re-search Center (APRC)
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International Plastics Events
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