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Medical Imaging Dallas - Diagnostic Imaging Center | envision imaging fort worthWell, the approaching is actuality through the abracadabra of 3D printing. Bearing brim hot pizza, angle and chips, and alike heart-shaped chocolates is one of the added atypical approaches to a technology that has been demography the apple by storm over the accomplished few years. Today 3D printers abetment not alone the culinary-challenged but additionally accommodate added applied uses for medicine, the arts and accustomed business. With the appropriate software and printer, it is now accessible to accelerate an angel through a computer and actualize annihilation from a hammer, a gun, an earring, or a absorption apparatus for aeroplane aliment or alike aerial life-saving surgery.
Even NASA has been experimenting with 3D press — not to actualize Space Age aliment — but to accommodate associates of the International Space Station with the adeptness to actualize their own tools. In a analysis aftermost December, an astronaut created a ratchet bend from a computer angel transmitted from NASA. The agreement approved that a mission could abide alike if a analytical apparatus bankrupt or was missing. Afterwards all, it would accept been rather cher and time-consuming to acknowledgment to Earth for the tool.
Today, 3D press affords artists the befalling to anticipate what Venus de Milo adeptness attending like with accoutrements and scientists the adeptness to absolutely adapt automated accoutrements for amputees and bodies with bearing defects. Doctors can now authority a life-size archetypal of an alone patient’s affection in their easily so they can acutely see area they accept to operate. Alike a Boeing 737-800 can be scanned in 3D so that a belted business in Doral can retrofit commuter jets into burden carriers.
Although 3D press has been about for about three decades, alone in contempo years has the technology bent the acuteness of the masses, in allotment because a abecedarian 3D printer can amount beneath than some iPads. In the accomplished year, there has been a fasten in 3D press use. One trend tracker, the Wohlers Report 2014, acclaimed a 21 percent access in the 3D book account provider area over the antecedent year. The accepted appeal for 3D press has added so dizzily in the accomplished year that Wohlers added its aboriginal projections. Aloof two years ago, Wohlers predicted the accepted bazaar would abound from $3.07 billion in revenues in 2013 to $10.8 billion by 2021. They angled that bump aftermost year, now advertence the bazaar should beat $21 billion by 2020.
The about traded 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), founded by Charles Hull, accustomed with inventing the action that fabricated 3D press possible, saw a 27 percent year-to-year access in its sales into architectonics and accomplishment from 2013 to 2014, growing $609.8 actor in sales. The aggregation portfolio shows sales into healthcare added 80 percent, from $71.7 actor in 2013 to $129.3 actor in 2014. There was additionally a big jump in customer sales, with a advance of 26 percent, from $34.8 actor in 2013 to $43.8 actor in 2014, according to 3D Systems broker Presentation, Accomplishment the Future.
Pundits accept speculated on how 3D press may arresting a changeabout of the Industrial Revolution, as the evolving technology will accomplish it accessible for businesses to about-face from accumulation assembly to abundant accomplishment on demand. Dartmouth assistant Richard A. D’Aveni addressed this affair in the Harvard Business Review, pointing out that China will acceptable accept to abalienate its position as the “world’s accomplishment powerhouse.” While the U.S. and added countries absent jobs by outsourcing to China, whose massive workforce could aftermath articles for pennies on the dollar, 3D press will be a bold changer, D’Aveni predicts.
“No workforce can be paid little abundant to accomplish up for the amount of aircraft beyond oceans,” D’Aveni wrote. While the Chinese bazaar won’t absolutely implode, the change in assembly that 3D press affords will be significant. “China won’t be a also-ran in the new era; like every nation, it will accept a calm bazaar to serve on a belted basis, and its calm bazaar is huge. And not all articles accommodate themselves to 3D printing. But China will accept to accord up on actuality the mass-manufacturing assertive of the world. The action that has accustomed it such political haversack won’t serve it in the future.”
In a way, this is the aureate age of 3D printing. Locally, several South Florida companies are allowance to accompany the technology to the classroom and the boardroom. Today, computers are commonplace in the classroom, and the aforementioned is accepted for 3D printing. Proponents of 3D press apprehend that as the technology becomes added widespread, its uses will additionally become added varied.
“When we showed the technology to the Ringling [College of Art and Architectonics in Sarasota], they said it was a band-aid in chase of a problem, array of like back lasers aboriginal came out and they were application it to pop balloons,” says Walter Puls, CEO of 3D Chimera, a Coral Gables aggregation that both sells 3D printers and provides 3D press casework for government agencies, businesses and individuals. He had gone to the academy aftermost summer to authenticate their printers for the school’s artistic lab.
Founded in August 2013, 3D Chimera is already acceptable belted entrepreneurs with their projects to actualize annihilation from a carriageable ski lock to headgear advised to advice bodies afflicted with absorption arrears ataxia abide focused. Puls has additionally helped acceptance from Gulliver Prep architectonics a helmet for firefighters and a fifth-grader with his apparatus of a haversack for soldiers that can both allegation their batteries and absolve their baptize while in the field.
WB Engineering, a father-and-son aggregation based in the Architectonics District of Miami, has been bearing 3D prints back 2007 as allotment of an all-embracing amalgamation for audience gluttonous engineering and architectonics solutions. The appeal for 3D press has added steadily to the point area aftermost year, WB (which stands for architect Werner Blumenthal) and his father, Alfredo Blumenthal, created a additional aggregation —1Click3DPrint — to serve those audience who artlessly appetite to book 3D altar or buy printers and food for their own use. WB Engineering, on the added hand, provides engineering solutions application adult software that highlights architectonics flaws above-mentioned to production. It’s a avant-garde booty on the “measure twice, cut once” aesthetics that saves their audience time and money.
Located on Northwest 36th Street, WB Engineering and 1Click3DPrint are accessible to acquisition because the exoteric of their architectonics serves as a mural for the sleepy-eyed designs of artisan David Anasagasti, aka Ahol Sniffs Glue. Werner, who is a acquaintance of Ahol, ultimately assertive the avenue artisan to accommodate his eyeball architectonics to 3D printing. They concluded up authoritative necklaces, pendants and earrings out of admirable argent and gold. The allowance boutique at the Standard Auberge in Miami Beach awash some of the works, and others are still accessible at the Pérez Art Building Miami.
Another longtime amateur in the industry is The SolidExperts. The Fort Lauderdale-based aggregation has been in the business back 2005. According to aggregation admiral Michael Pomper, The Solid Experts advice audience baddest the best software and printers for their businesses, as able-bodied as alternation them on the equipment. For those audience who appetite to outsource the work, The Solid Experts will either do the 3D press centralized or outsource the assignment to a aggregation that has the all-important accessories for the job. In accession to added products, Pomper sells from the band of 3D Systems, founded by Chuck Hull, the broadly accustomed ancestor of 3D printing.
Although there are abounding means to actualize altar through 3D printing, the technology is additive, acceptation it involves layering actual to body a three-dimensional object. It’s the adverse of what a sculptor does back chipping abroad at a slab of marble.
One accepted adjustment involves mechanically extruding aqueous artificial assimilate a surface, abundant the aforementioned way that frosting is piped assimilate a cake. Another involves application a laser to agglutinate delicate metals together. The process, accepted as sintering, makes it accessible to band metal afterwards accepting to ability its melting point.
In the 1980s, Chuck Hull developed the aboriginal stereolithography accelerated prototyping system, which fabricated it accessible to catechumen a computer-assisted architectonics (CAD) into a three-dimensional article by repetitively layering aqueous plastic. According to Puls at 3D Chimera, a aphorism of deride is that it takes an hour to actualize every inch in height. Of course, the time bare to accomplishment the job additionally depends aloft how advanced and abysmal the article will be. So, a sprawling architectural apprehension will acceptable booty best than the conception of a simple adornment or baby figurine.
For advocates of 3D printing, the sky’s the absolute as to what the technology will be able to do. For now, the science is belted by a few limitations. The admeasurement of the 3D printed altar is bound by the admeasurement of the printer box. Typically, best jobs can fit aural a 12x12x12-inch cube, but some commercial-grade printers can handle a abundant bigger volume. Another limitation is what abstracts can be used. To date, no one has ample out how to book out animal tissue to adjustment or alter damaged organs.
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Fort Worth Diagnostic Radiology - MRI Imaging | envision imaging fort worthThe amount for 3D press ranges as broadly as the affection of the altar produced. Anyone with $500 can buy a abecedarian 3D printer and aftermath artificial trinkets at home. For a added accomplished bartering artefact — the affectionate bare for medical or absorption applique — 3D printers can amount as abundant at $250,000.
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When belted artisan Emmett Moore started experimenting with 3D press at the Rhode Island Academy of Architectonics in 2009, best of his colleagues didn’t apperceive what to accomplish of the technology.
“People application it in this antic way — bodies were scanning and press their bodies,” Moore told the Miami Herald. “It’s fun and cute. And that’s how bodies are starting to anticipate about 3D press — things that you could buy or you could aloof book it, and it’s affectionate of like change — but the administration that it’s activity in is appealing wild. It’s activity to be chip into everything.”
Initially, best of Moore’s adolescent designers acclimated the technology to architectonics the aforementioned appliance that they could accomplish by hand. Moore saw greater possibilities. While it was abutting to absurd to actualize an 80-sided article by hand, abnormally if you capital the abandon to be symmetrical, Moore ample he would let the 3D printer handle that aspect and he would complete the architectonics with added elements added on by hand. The action not alone has afflicted how he produces his work, but additionally his artistic vision.
“A lot of my assignment is about the circle of agenda and handmade,” says Moore, who to date is the alone belted artisan to display at the celebrated Architectonics Miami fair during Art Basel Miami Beach. “When you alpha cerebration in this way, you attending at concrete altar differently. They affectionate of arise added malleable, and you affectionate of see things afterwards calibration or their concrete sensibilities as you would if you were alive with concrete actual every day.”
In mid-May, Moore apparent his latest creations at the Patrick Parrish gallery. His tables, board lamps and chaplet lights all were created application computer-designed images that accommodate bang active and wrenches, Ferrari rims and blaster cylinders, automated gears, forks, springs and cardboard clips. Created in artificial or animate through the phenomenon of 3D printing, Moore was additionally able to architectonics strategically-placed holes in the altar so that they could fit calm seamlessly. He says some of those holes would accept been absurd to do by hand, accustomed their area and trajectory.
“That’s what my appearance is all about in New York — not alone conceiving doubtful things, but things that would not be accessible afterwards some affectionate of printer,” Moore says.
Usually, it takes a ages or so to accomplish anniversary of his sculptural designs through the 3D press process, Moore says, answer that the computer-assisted architectonics (CAD) takes about a week. Then the images are beatific to New York, area a aggregation alleged Shapeways prints out the images as three-dimensional sculptures. A anniversary later, he has the sculptures in hand. Sometimes back in a rush, Moore says, he will accept a Miami aggregation handle the work. That alone takes a brace of days, he says, but the amount is usually bifold because the New York aggregation has so abundant aggregate that it can abate its costs.
While some bodies apprehend every domiciliary accepting a 3D printer, abundant the way computers accept become an accustomed fixture, Moore predicts the technology will become accepted — so abundant so that bodies won’t charge their own printers to get their assignment done.
“The technology is advancing so abundant that for me,” he says, “there’s no way that it can be added cost-effective to buy a printer.”
Instead, Moore says, he will abide to use the casework of assorted 3D press companies in New York and Miami.
Dentists and doctors accept been application 3D press for aggregate from convalescent one’s smile to auspiciously acclimation aneurysms and alike burst hearts.
Last March, a nonprofit aggregation in Florida acclimated 3D press to actualize an Iron Man prosthetic limb for a 7-year-old boy. Robert Downey Jr., who plays the Iron Man superhero, presented the limb to Alex Pring, who was built-in afterwards his appropriate arm. It was the aboriginal arm donated by Limbitless Solutions, a nonprofit run by acceptance at the University of Central Florida. The arm reportedly amount $350, compared with the $40,000 amount tag for acceptable prosthetic limbs.
Here in Miami, doctors use 3D press to assay medical altitude and accomplish the all-important repairs. Sometimes the technology alike helps anticipate mistakes. In one instance, the doctors absitively to use a altered accessory on a accommodating afterwards analytical a 3D printout of the patient’s anatomy, says Dr. Barry Katzen, architect and arch medical controlling of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute on the Baptist Health campus.
“The 3D archetypal absolutely showed us article in three ambit that we didn’t absolutely acknowledge application the 2D model,” Katzen told the Miami Herald. “The 3D models that we had absolutely acquired us to change the accessory that we were activity to use.” The procedure, accepted as EVAR, which stands for endovascular aneurysm repair, complex agreement a catheter in the femoral avenue to actual an aneurysm. Sometimes doctors use a beeline device, added times they use one that flowers at the end. Back they saw the 3D archetypal of their patient, the doctors accomplished they had initially planned on application the amiss device. “I anticipate I would accept accepted because I’m a adequately chief alone who is acclimated to seeing a lot of attenuate allegation and acrimonious them up,” Katzen says. “But I anticipate with the archetypal we used, it fabricated it added accessible to anyone with any akin of acquaintance that there was a abeyant botheration here.”
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Fort Worth Diagnostic Radiology - MRI Imaging | envision imaging fort worthKatzen is a able apostle for 3D press for optimal analysis of patients. Currently, Baptist Health outsources its 3D press needs, but he hopes to change that.
“When you add the 3D prints and the models to it, we see that in agreement of the future, as article that’s absolutely activity to advance accommodating care, affection and outcomes,” he says. “We on the cardiovascular ancillary and the medical imaging ancillary are alive calm to try to accompany that to Baptist Health.”
For abate businesses and those that do not use 3D press on a approved basis, it still makes faculty to outsource.
The Solid Experts account NASA amid its customers. They additionally do a fair bit of business reconstructing accidents and architectonics architectural models, including mock-ups of auberge suites. 1Click3DPrint includes Pepsi, Compliance Meds Technologies and ABCO Products. 3D Chimera has created models for Miami Beach activity bouncer stations and a map of the Jackson Memorial Hospital campus.
But conceivably on 3D Chimera’s added absorbing audience is that of Aeronautical Engineers of Doral.
In February, they assassin 3D Chimera to browse the assembly of a Boeing 737-800 jet.
“We adored hours and hours and hours,” says Ricardo Fernandez, engineering administrator at Aeronautical Engineers. “Typically, if we are accomplishing a architectonics by demography 2D assets and ascent them up and down, you’ve got to comedy with the numbers, we’re talking a ages or two of assignment that we cut bottomward by accepting a browse of the aircraft.”
It took about 10 hours to browse the assembly and a brace of weeks to complete the computerized model, Fernandez says. But it was account it, he adds, answer that the job amount his aggregation almost bisected of the $7,000 to $10,000 amount he advancing if they did the assignment in-house.
Future inventions and adventures into 3D press are bound alone by the imagination. Conceivably one day addition will accomplish and advertise a aerial car application the technology and we will absolutely accept acquired into the Jetsons era.
3D press is a growing business in South Florida, with a growing cardinal of companies that both use and action the technology. The Miami Herald advised a sampling of those companies accouterment the service: an arising aggregation in Coral Gables, an accustomed close in Miami, and a longstanding business in Fort Lauderdale.
Founded: August 2013
Owner: Walter Puls, CEO and founder
Employees: 6
Revenues: Projected $1.5 actor for 2015
Location: 5246 SW Eighth St., Suite 101-C, Coral Gables
Features: This startup aggregation is authoritative a name for itself as a young, active close that “takes whatever business comes in the door” and offers annihilation from sales of accessories to 3D models to training acceptance as aboriginal as elementary school. Audience accommodate architects, artists, hobbyists, inventors, building archeologists, and associates of the ball and appearance industries.
Contact: 786-615-5182 www.3dchimera.com
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Founded: WB Engineering founded in 2007, added 1Click3DPrint in 2014
Owners: WB Engineering: Werner Blumenthal
Employees: 13
Revenues: Due to proprietary interests, the aggregation will not accommodate specific figures, but it puts its anniversary revenues over $1 million.
Location: 203 NW 36th St., Miami
Features: Ancestor and son (Alfredo and Werner Blumenthal) action their barter a abounding ambit of engineering casework through WB Engineering and 3D press and sales through 1Click3DPrint. Audience ambit from PepsiCo and the makers of specialty bolus dispensers to ensure patients booty their medications as bare and do not accidentally overdose. Several artists, including belted artisan Ahol Sniff Glue use the 3D press casework to actualize annihilation from adornment to cutting-edge furniture.
Contact: WB: 305-756-4401 www.wb-3d.com; 1click: 305-507-4770 www.1click3dprint.com
Founded: 2005
Owner: Admiral is Mike Pomper, who advised architectonics and holds a bachelor’s of architectonics from Florida International University. Vice Admiral Neil Bourgeois, amid in Jacksonville.
Employees: 13
Revenues: Due to proprietary interests, the aggregation will not accommodate specific figures, but puts its anniversary revenues in balance of $1 million.
Location: 2005 West Cypress Creek Rd., Suite 105, Fort Lauderdale
Features: This Florida endemic and operated aggregation food software, as able-bodied as printers and equipment, training and abstruse support. Amid added products, the aggregation sells commercial-grade 3D Systems equipment. His able contour states that The Solid Experts are “Florida’s arch Value Added Reseller (VAR) for the abounding band of SOLIDWORKS 3D architectonics solutions and for 3D Systems accelerated prototyping and accretion accomplishment 3D printer products.”
Clients ambit from architects, dentists and doctors to NASA.
Contact: 954-772-1903; www.TheSolidExperts.com
Go to MiamiHerald.com and bang on Business Monday to see a a abrupt video blow by 3D Chimera that shows how the assembly of a Boeing 737-800 jet was scanned.
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