The 3D Printer Farm – function and technology requirements and didactic use

Skawiński, P.; Siemiński, P.

doi:10.17814/mechanik.2017.8-9.117

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“…Laplume and others [88] develop the idea of a 3D-print shop in a semi-empirical study. They assume a production on-demand BM and a number of configurations of consumer-grade FDM 2 -printers that is, printer farms with several centrally-controlled machines [89]. It has been suggested that printer farms would accrue economically sustainable annual revenues [88].…”

Section: Peer-to-peer Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Additive Manufacturing Technology Changes Business Models? – Review of Literature

Savolainen

Collan

2020

Additive Manufacturing

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Section: Peer-to-peer Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Additive Manufacturing Technology Changes Business Models? – Review of Literature

Savolainen

Collan

2020

Additive Manufacturing

144

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“…In a broad sense, a 3D printing build farm is defined as a collection of similar 3D printers controlled by a central networked system. More advanced build farms may include autonomous systems to monitor production and perform tasks such as removing completed prints from machines, as well as include post-processing capabilities, or they may rely on technicians for these roles (Skawiński & Siemiński, 2017). The minimum number of 3D printers to be classified as a build farm is as low as 3-5 (Laplume, Anzalone & Pearce, 2016;MANUFACTUR3D, 2019), and theoretically can be scaled up infinitely.…”

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3D Printing Build Farms

Loy

Novak

2021

Anywhere Working and the Future of Work

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The development of high-end, distributed, advanced manufacturing over the last decade has been a by-product of a push to foster new workforce capabilities, while building a market for industrial additive manufacturing (3D printing) machines. This trend has been complemented by a growing democratization in access to commercial platforms via the internet, and the ease of communication it allows between consumers and producers. New ways of distributed working in manufacturing are on the rise while mass production facilities in the Western world are in decline. As automation increasingly excludes the worker from assembly line production, the tools to regain control over manufacturing and commercial interaction are becoming more readily available. As a result, new working practices are emerging. This chapter discusses networked 3D printing build farms and their potential to reshape the future of work for distributed manufacturing. It highlights changes in infrastructure priorities and education for a digitally enabled maker society from an Australian perspective.

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“…The democratic manufacturing project focused on providing students the opportunity to assemble/manufacture, operate and maintain a 3D printer farm within their product design studio. A 3D printer farm is a large collection of 3D printers situated in one location; an example is the Monkeyfab Prime 3D printers shelved in one location at The Department of Automotive and Machine Tools at the Warsaw University of Technology [1]. 3D printer farms can be framed in two contexts i.e., integrated production, and consumer production.…”

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DEMOCRATIC MANUFACTURING: A STUDENT MANUFACTURED & OPERATED 3D PRINTER FARM

Siena¹,

Forbes²,

Truman³

2022

DS 117: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2022), London S

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The DIY movement goes back to the late 60's and started the trend of shared tools as a reaction to the lack of skills and education on how things are made; this resulted in an increased awareness of democratic manufacturing resources and facilities, especially makerspaces and hackspaces, innovation labs, 3D printer farms etc. At Nottingham Trent University (NTU), we have observed an increase in students choosing to study Product Design thus increasing pressure on workshop/manufacturing spaces, especially automated manufacturing resources such as 3D Printers. Subsequently, the maker experiences students have been experiencing within the workshop environment temporarily lessened to ensure the needs of our rapidly increasing student cohorts are catered for. This paper explores how democratic technologies and manufacturing tools have overcome this issue by enabling designers, makers, and hobbyists to increase their access to facilities within the Product Design Department at NTU. This paper explores/reflects on the initial development of a 3D printer farm located in a product design studio where a group of sixty-nine students manufactured/assembled eighteen Creality CR-10S 3D printers. The success of the initial student led democratic manufacturing project resulted in ADBE developing a second 3D printer farm in a second product design studio consisting of a further eight Creality CR-10S V3 3D printers. The 3D printer farms are now complimented by a blended induction allowing for student independent use of the resource. Student feedback is also presented regarding the blended induction to ascertain knowledge acquisition and confidence on using the resources independently.

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The 3D Printer Farm – function and technology requirements and didactic use

Cited by 5 publications

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How Additive Manufacturing Technology Changes Business Models? – Review of Literature

How Additive Manufacturing Technology Changes Business Models? – Review of Literature

3D Printing Build Farms

DEMOCRATIC MANUFACTURING: A STUDENT MANUFACTURED & OPERATED 3D PRINTER FARM

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