{"id":157155,"date":"2023-04-27T22:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=157155"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:55:28","slug":"what-is-additive-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/business-innovation\/what-is-additive-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Additive 3D printing technologies ready to emerge in manufacturing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Engineering and design students who will head management positions in the future will have an advantage: they will know about the potential and benefits of carrying out additive manufacturing processes, also known as 3D printing environments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the interview with TecScience<\/strong>, Professor Cuan explains the fundamentals of 3D printing based on nature. (Photo: Screenshot)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is additive manufacturing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Additive manufacturing is a technology that uses 3D printing and is applied by many sectors of the industry to produce small parts, such as screws, since it allows reducing the cost of production when metal can be replaced by plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrique Cuan Urquizo<\/strong><\/a>, professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences<\/a> and researcher at the Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing<\/a> of Tec de Monterrey, says that \u2212almost two decades ago\u2212 this technology began to be known as the \u201crapid prototyping\u201d process that allowed a material to be modeled layer by layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We didn’t imagine how it would work,” he says in an interview with TecScience<\/em><\/strong>. “Studying the PhD, I met (3D printers) and today I have students who even have their printer at home,” he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This technology began to leave laboratories since 3D printing allows reducing the cost of production when metal can be replaced by plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also allows the production of spare parts, without having an entire production line to manufacture hundreds of parts that may not be used in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is no longer a technology accessed by certain experts in a laboratory. It is a technology that you can already buy\u201d, comments Cuan Urquizo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Differences between additive manufacturing and 3D printing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Science articles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) <\/a>make a difference between “additive manufacturing” and “3D printing” which are used interchangeably but note distinctions between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additive manufacturing<\/strong> is the technological ecosystem of building physical parts and products from digital data while 3D printing<\/strong> is the process used to form an object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuan Urquizo explains that students who take this course benefit from learning additive manufacturing basics and the 3D printing process, but they also discover how they can take advantage of this technology to drive innovative ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe generations that now have management positions in the industry are not familiar with (additive manufacturing). As long as the new generations occupy those positions, then companies will begin to trust this technology because young people have already been exposed to 3D technology\u201d, says the Tec professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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