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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group<br />

available – ceramic, metal, and diverse polymers – and the various processes used – jetting or<br />

laser, liquid or powder or liquid – not all are green or highly efficient. 174,175,176,177 In fact, the<br />

melting required of some polymers are more energy-intensive by one to two orders of<br />

magnitude more than conventional industrial practices, while some powders are not<br />

recyclable. 178 Moreover, the release of air emissions and fine particles during some 3D printing<br />

processes raises health concerns that need to be resolved. 179 In some scenarios, mass scaling<br />

of such products would not be sustainable, resulting in excess consumption of resources.<br />

Herein lies a great opportunity for Luxembourg’s rich array of industrial and manufacturing<br />

firms to work closely with the nation’s and EU’s leading R&D and Innovation centers to further<br />

the state-of-play in green, lean, clean, sustainable AM and 3D printing products that fully<br />

integrate into a circular economy.<br />

A local 3D printer can also power his or her fabrication lab with green electricity harvested from<br />

renewable energy onsite or generated by local producer cooperatives at near zero marginal<br />

cost. Small- and medium-sized enterprises in Europe and elsewhere are already beginning to<br />

collaborate in regional green-electricity cooperatives to take advantage of lateral scaling.<br />

While 3D printing technology is the digital heart of the new info-facturing processes that are<br />

transforming industrial production, a range of other digital technologies coming online also<br />

amplify the optimization of aggregate efficiencies and productivity. Virtual product design<br />

dramatically shortens the research, development, and deployment of new product lines and<br />

reduces the upfront cost of getting the product to market. Smarter robots that can learn from<br />

their mistakes and integrate Big Data feedback from other best practices in real time,<br />

transforms robotics from a dumb linear mechanical process to a smart cognitive exponential<br />

learning curve. Smart robots continually upgrade their capacities by mining incoming Big Data<br />

174 Faludi, Jeremy, Zhongyin Hu, Shahd Alrashed, Christopher Braunholz, Suneesh Kaul, and Leulekal Kassa<br />

(2015) Does Material Choice Drive Sustainability of 3D Printing? World, Academy of Science, Engineering and<br />

Technology, International Journal of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering, v9:2,<br />

2015.<br />

175 Faludi, J., C. Bayley, M. Iribane, S. Bhogal, (2015) "Comparing Environmental Impacts of Additive Manufacturing<br />

vs. Traditional Machining via Life-Cycle Assessment," Journal of Rapid Prototyping.to be published 2015.<br />

176 Faludi, J., R. Ganeriwala, B. Kelly, T. Rygg, T. Yang, (2014) "Sustainability of 3D Printing vs. Machining: Do<br />

Machine Type & Size Matter?" Proceedings of EcoBalance Conference, Japan 2014.<br />

177 Tabone, Michaelangelo D., James J. Cregg, Eric J. Beckman, and Amy E. Landis (2010) "Sustainability metrics: life<br />

cycle assessment and green design in polymers," Environmental Science & Technology 44.21.<br />

178 Oxman, N., J. Laucks, M. Kayser, E. Tsai, and M. Firstenberg Freeform 3D Printing: Towards a Sustainable<br />

Approach to Additive Manufacturing, Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab.<br />

179 Stephens, Brent, Parham Azimi, Zeineb El Orch, and Tiffanie Ramos (2013) "Ultrafine particle emissions from<br />

desktop 3D printers," Atmospheric Environment 79: 334-339.<br />

204

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