Why do people love to compare injection moulding and 3D printing?
From the point of view of the industry, in the operation of injection moulding plant, injection moulding enterprise, we need to pay attention to some information related to the industry market. In order to avoid committing 'marketing myopia', we also need to pay attention to the technical innovation of the industry, so as not to be 'beaten' by surprise. An industry that is quite similar to the injection moulding industry in terms of production and technology is 3D printing.
Although 3D printing technology has been introduced as early as the 1980s, but limited to the social demand and investment, the technology has been hidden in the bottom of the box, not with the public to meet the fate. With the increase of venture capital in recent years, 3D printing only have the opportunity to appear in everyone's field of vision, 3D printers have also become the pig on the wind, we 'have not eaten pork, but also seen the pig run'. And with the results of 3D printing in all kinds of industry projects are exposed, so people are also happy to take the emerging 3D printing and traditional injection moulding for comparison.
Will 3D printing replace injection moulding?
I believe many people already have their own answer to this question. In the short term, the current 3D printer technology is not yet capable of subverting the injection moulding economy of scale, but for the production of smaller parts, 3D printing has a considerable use. In the long run, between the process is different, different needs, unless the future of 3D printing faster, lower cost, or both will be the simultaneous existence of the industry.
From the processing technology, 3D printing is the use of layer-by-layer printing way to construct objects, processing difficulty, low moulding efficiency, generally used for the production of fine products; injection moulding technology relies on the mould injection moulding, it is faster, more convenient, can achieve large-scale mass production, product production costs are also lower.
From the demand situation, 3D printing technology is more orientated to the higher requirements of the product, such as the recent sensational 3D heart, Tel Aviv University, Israel, the use of 3D printing technology, the world's first with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and atria of the 'complete' heart, which in the world is the first case. Injection moulding technology is geared towards a variety of industrial products, most plastic products on the market rely on injection moulding machines to complete.
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