digital manufacturing and the next industrial revolution

Redefining Product Creation

Digital Manufacturing –The next Industrial Revolution

Peter WeijmarshausenCo-Founder & CEO of Shapeways.Twitter @weijmarshausen

First Industrial Revolution

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Second Industrial Revolution

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Third Industrial RevolutionDigital Manufacturing

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Who

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What

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Where

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When

What is the catalyst to this revolution?

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Mega cities Megacities

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Globalization

• By 2025, 45% of Fortune 500 will be HQ in emerging markets.• Different location, different culture, different preference driving customization.

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Digital Disruption

What have we learned?

Rise of the home printer Limited innovation

What is happening now?

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New printers will give consumers what they want

• HP -- Full color plastic something consumers want

• Desktop Metal lowering cost for metal

• Carbon / Formlabs lowering cost for high detail plastic

10x faster than any other 3D printer

Reduces cost by 50%

Full color

Enables same day

turnaround

Higher margins & lower end

prices

More creativity

How do we get more people involved?

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3D Scanning opens up the creation pipeline

• Highly engaging crowd-starter • Very easy to understand• Imagine 1 billion people with

3D scanners in their pockets (next gen phones will support this!)

• Our tests with scanning at SxSW and the Museum of Art & Design were a huge success – scanned 20,000 people

• Both mobile and scanning booth solutions working and rolling out

First killer app of 3D printing for consumers

3D scanning at events and museumsSuper Model Karlie Kloss getting scanned and 3D printed

CustomMaker enables real-time customization

Shapeways’ proprietary real-time customization engine

Enables anyone to easily customize existing products

Open to all Shapeways

designers & shops, using JavaScript

Generates 100% printable content

Thousands of community-driven

custom products on site

From e-commerce to creative commerce

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What will the future look like?

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Digital Materials

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4D printing / self assembly