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supported and the end products must achieve or surpass stateof-the-art.
We will demonstrate the first commercially available
tool with combined heterogeneous capability of plastics and
metals for electronic applications and specifically RF electronics.
1:30–1:55 pm
Sky’s the Limit: Advanced Rapid Prototyping
with Multi-material Capabilities
Susan York, US Consumables Business Manager, Stratasys
Innovative Applications
1–3:25 pm
Out of the box thinking leads to new ways of using additive
manufacturing. This session is a place to hear from innovators
who are testing and doing the unimaginable.
1–1:25 pm
3D Imaging and Forensic Reconstruction
of the Human Face
Shayne A. Kondor, Medical Modeling Engineer,
Naval Postgraduate Dental School
Joe Mullins, Forensic Artist,
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
There are over 100,000 missing persons in the United
States and approximately 45,000 unidentified sets of human
remains. A significant proportion of the unknown remains are
skeletonized, making identification difficult. DNA and dental
records are extremely useful identifiers, but the dissemination
of facial reconstructions, and the subsequent recognition
of the unidentified person by an investigative agency, family
member or friend is still one of the most common ways that
these individuals are identified. To put a face on these victims,
forensic artists are able to reconstruct a probable face on a
skull using a combination of anatomical science and artistic
skill. The reconstruction process is classically performed by
clay sculpted over the skull. This process is labor intensive and
expensive. To expedite this process forensic artists now benefit
from 3D scanning technologies, allowing accurate models of
the skull to be obtained for digital reconstruction of the face.
Digital reconstruction of the face is performed in a software
application. Tangible 3D models of the reconstruction are
printed using additive manufacturing technologies. Case studies
will demonstrate different imaging options to obtain a skull
model for the reconstruction process, the digital reconstruction
process, and the additive manufacturing options used to obtain
physical models.
One of the major challenges in the prototyping stage of product
development is to produce a fully-representative model of the
intended end-product. In many industries, this is complicated
by the fact that the final product is not of a single, homogenous
material, but is rather an assembly of different materials and
properties. Objet inkjet-based technology is the only 3D printing
technology of its kind in the world able to selectively place
different materials in a single 3D printed prototype and compose
two materials to create varying composites, Digital Materials, to
closely match very specific material properties. With over 100
different materials and Digital Material combinations to choose
from, including rigid to rubber-like, opaque to transparent and
standard to engineering plastic performance, the sky is now
the limit to creating accurate prototypes that match closer than
ever before the aesthetic look, tangible feel and true function of
complex end-products.
2–2:25 pm
Making Stuff in the Connected Age
Mickey McManus, President & CEO, MAYA Design
In 2013, there are more transistors in the world than grains of
rice. Each year we make billions of computing devices and put
them into nearly every significant thing we manufacture. We
have literally permeated our world with computation. Computers
already vastly outnumber people, but in a few short years, their
number will climb into the trillions. We are quickly learning how
to make those processors communicate with each other, and
with us. Instead of information being “in” computers; people,
products, environments, and cultures will begin to live “in” the
information. In this burgeoning ecology, strange new varieties
of connected products, services, environments, and people
will proliferate. Atoms and bits will connect in ways nobody
can predict. 3D printing of electronic devices is already a
reality. What will manufacturing look like when every sheet of
printed paper has the computing power of the newest iPad®?
When connectivity spreads to ordinary objects and they are
newly vulnerable to viruses or bad updates, complexity will
be inevitable. But untamed, malignant complexity is not. This
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