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JAMPT Corporation:
Pioneering The Revolutions In Metal-3D Printing Technology
Since the prelude of 3D printing (additive
manufacturing), its beneficial applications in
producing small quantities of complex parts with a
higher pace have been noticed among manufacturing
circles. Today, 3D printing, particularly metal-3D printing is
being used more for industrial products. It has huge
potential to be deployed not only in aerospace and medical
but also in products for general consumers such as
automobiles, industrial machinery, and home appliances.
Moreover, to help overcome numbers of key challenges
such as globalization of manufacturing bases, inventory
management, logistics efficiency, and inheritance of
technology, faced by companies today, additive
manufacturing (AM) can be helpful in many ways. Being a
game-changing technology, 3D Printing promises to bring
the new idea of “agile manufacturing” to many industries.
Though 3D printing is competent in changing the landscape
of the manufacturing industry, technologies and
manufacturing processes involved in it are yet to be fully
optimized in all the fields. The process starting from raw
material powder, manufacturing process (forming
conditions), and printing equipment to postprocessing—still
has rooms for technological progress in
the future. Further, as business opportunities could be born
in several fields, the 3D printing industry has so much
potential to grow in the coming years. Harnessing the
potential of 3D printing, JAMPT Corporation (Japan
Additive Manufacturing & Processing Technology) is
supporting the recovery of Japanese manufacturing and the
logistics revolution.
Aim to be a One-Stop Solution Provider
United by the strong bonds of ambition, with the aim of
becoming the world’s leading AM company, JAMPT was
established in 2017 to provide 360° solutions in metal-3D
printing. Knowing the fact that covering whole
manufacturing process chain is the key when stepping
forward with clients, JAMPT covers whole AM value chain
and provides one-stop AM service aiming for
industrialization of AM technology and commercial
production of AM parts, together with its clients.
More concretely, its services and functions include
production of high-quality raw material powder specifically
for metal 3D printing, manufacturing process technology
applying advanced simulation technology (based on
contract manufacturing experience of prototypes), joint
development of metal AM parts with clients, joint
development of metal AM system/machine, and postprocessing.
A Simplified Approach to New Product Development
A manufacturer always creates a product to fill a need or
want of its target market. While doing this, it requires a
huge capital to develop a whole set of a new product. In the
case of JAMPT, it makes the use of Rapid Prototyping (RP)
to develop and introduce new products. This is done
without making any capital investment for a specific new
production line. Therefore, RP is advantageous in reducing
the introduction cycle of new products.
Moreover, under the current technological scenario, Rapid
Prototyping with metal 3D printing enables superior
manufacturing of complicated shapes and difficult-to-work
materials compared to other conventional methods.
Therefore, 3D printing is a preferred method by the team of
JAMPT, which is useful for assisting their customers from
aerospace and medical fields.
A Support System Helping JAMPT to Conquer
Challenges
As JAMPT was established as a joint venture company
combining each partner’s specialty, it faced some
challenges initially, where integration of each company’s
function in full and utilizing its existing business networks
was one of them. Further, as JAMPT aimed at the
industrialization of AM rather than just prototyping of
products, it is momentous to detect customers’ potential
needs precisely and consult them to further pursue the
world of metal AM together.
In the beginning, the AM manufacturing method was a
novel method for many of JAMPT’s clients. Therefore, in a
very first phase of forming an industrial partnership with
clients, securing budget from them for the joint
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