Talking Additive

BONUS Episode! Talking Additive takes a momentary pause from its usual programming to share a behind the scenes experience from Ultimaker's software launch event, considering the potential impact on the industry.

Ultimaker’s CMO Nuno Campos and SVP Software Paul Heijmans share news about Ultimaker’s latest products: Ultimaker Essentials and Ultimaker 3D Printing Academy. 

They go into depth about each product, explaining how Essentials helps businesses deploy and scale 3D printing innovation, and how 3D Printing Academy supports learning within your organization. 

The products also complement one another, with 3D Printing Academy providing IT admins with the information they need to incorporate Ultimaker Essentials into their existing workflow. Both products are designed to make it even easier to implement AM in your business, and Nuno and Paul explain exactly how this works. 

Several experts join us in this episode to discuss the role of additive manufacturing in the Food and Beverage Industry. 3D printing presents exciting opportunities in this field, and now, innovators are keen to share their post-pandemic AM strategies, and their vision for the long-term future.

The first speaker is Jeremy Evers, Ultimaker’s Application Engineer who focuses on manufacturing and the food and beverage industry. Jeremy discusses his time spent visiting companies around the world, and his collaborations with big businesses in this sector. 

We next talk to industrial 3D design and additive manufacturing adoption consultant Steve Cox who works closely with traditional manufacturers seeking to test the waters of 3D printing within their businesses for the first time. 

And we wrap up the discussion with writer and consultant Joris Peels (3DPrint.com), who shares a journalist’s perspective on these developments.

Niklas Eutebach is Development Engineer for Igus. Over the years, Igus has developed a unique line of ‘motion plastics’ – parts that are self-lubricating, wear-resistant, low coefficient of friction, and tailored for functional use. In 2014, they launched a range of 3D printing materials, using a blend of polymers to provide better motion functionality. This gave businesses across the world the ability to develop their own customized parts with ‘tribologically optimized’ features. This week, Niklas talks about the role of additive manufacturing at Igus, and how their motion plastic filaments encourage design innovation for functional parts and mechanisms.  

CAPT Brad Baker of the US Navy served for years as a high-ranking officer aboard nuclear submarines, but considers his most rewarding duty to be training future military leaders at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). There, he directs the MakerSpace USNA, introducing additive manufacturing technology to Naval Academy students. In Talking Additive’s latest episode, he speaks about the use of 3D printing – and Ultimaker 3D printers – at the USNA, as well as how FFF technology prepares students for future careers in the military and engineering fields, where additive manufacturing technology is quickly becoming widespread.  

Matt Griffin speaks with Thomas Collet, Director 3D Printing Materials and Marketing at LEHVOSS Group, about FFF 3D printing materials and how they are shaped through compounding to meet functional requirements. LEHVOSS Group is a leading material developer and global manufacturer of customized polymers with 125 years of innovation in chemical and mineral specialties. It has pursued 3D printing for the past nine years, offering high-performance materials with a broad portfolio and engineering support. Thomas will guide us through that portfolio, providing detail on specific materials’ properties and showing how end-users can better understand material requirements – as well as what can be achieved in specific compounds and formulations.

Matt Griffin speaks with presenters from the Construct3D education conference about the adoption of 3D printing in education. We share highlights of their presentations, as well as follow-up interviews, during which Tim Pula from Spark!Lab at the Smithsonian, Melodie Yashar from SEArch+, and Glenn Walters from UNC Chapel Hill will reveal insights into how 3D printing is improving and advancing the ways we learn, create, and innovate. By adopting additive manufacturing, our guests’ organizations are introducing staff, learners, and researchers to new ways of problem-solving, opening the door to advanced manufacturing materials and digital design frameworks for the careers of tomorrow.

In our third episode, Ultimaker’s team shares insight into the evolving role of FFF 3D printing, both in manufacturing and design.  

Our guests from Ultimaker include:  

Paul Heiden, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Merijn Neeleman, Portfolio Development Manager, and Rohit Jhamb, Director of Global Research and Analytics. 

In this interview, they discuss the role of additive in LEAN manufacturing, digital distributed manufacturing, the future of the supply chain, and how production processes evolve when companies adopt 3D printing in their product development and fulfilment pipelines. 

Danielle Glasbergen-Benning is an Application Development Specialist for DSM Additive Manufacturing. DSM is a multinational material and life science company, located in around 50 countries across the world. It provides everything from a significant proportion of the world’s Vitamin C and animal nutrition to injection molding materials for electronics and mobility, and advanced additive manufacturing materials.  

DSM started pioneering additive manufacturing more than 35 years ago, and to this day, continues to offer a variety of high-performance solutions across a range of 3D printing technologies.   

This week, Danielle explains the process of translating application needs into material solutions, with insight into recent cutting-edge projects made possible by their portfolio of materials, which are available for open platform professional 3D printers. 

In our first episode, we visit L’Oréal headquarters in Clichy, France to sit down with Matthew Forrester, the company’s Additive Manufacturing Technical Manager. Matthew is a passionate advocate for additive manufacturing deployment. 

He’s become a key evangelist for 3D printing in his field, and works across a variety of industries, supporting others as they adopt this technology. This week, he tells us about the three stages of adopting additive manufacturing: prototyping, plants, and production.