Digital Transformation is the biggest game changer in this decade, and perhaps in the next one as well. Besides the articles on my blog, I also discuss these topics via my YouTube channel. This first micro webinar that consists of five parts:
- General overview of what DX is all about
- Cloud technologies (this video)
- IoT, Internet of things
- 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing, and Generative Design
- Digital Customer Experience, DCX, and Social Media
3D Printing and Generative Design
3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing) is yet another disruptive technology that will change manufacturing in the near future dramatically. Today ist used for rapid prototyping on a broad level. The future is already knocking at our doors:
- Metal 3D Printing (e.g. SLM, Selective Laser Melting)
- Printing of human tissue or organs
- Even printing entire houses
Additive Manufacturing will allow us literally any shape, that subtractive manufacturing or casting just cannot do. In order to design these shapes, new design methods have to be used. Here, generative design comes in. In generative design we don’t start with the center line, as we used to. Instead, we give the computer parameters, like geometry constraints, forces, allowed stresses, cost, weight, etc. The computer then comes up with designs that we may never thought of.
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