Abstract: There are many speculations in the 3D print industry. One such speculation is that a specific 3D process is the right choice for all design requirements and will directly replace injection molding for commodity parts. Supporting this speculation are simplified supply chain arguments that have explained how 3D printing could be used instead of injection molding. In this talk, an explanation of hybrid supply chain models will show how 3D printing could be used to complement injection molding. With the current world situation, adding 3D printing to the part manufacturing toolkit could help mitigate disruptions in supply chains. There will also be an explanation of the longer term Megatrends, and how advances in technology — data analytics/machine learning/artificial intelligence, robotics/automation, 3D printing/functional materials, digital manufacturing, smart devices/industrial IoT, and generative design — will eventually change the world we live in. The talk will present success stories, including designs for preventing the spread of disease.

Edward D. Davis is currently Strategy Director of Digital Manufacturing, HP Inc. (US). Davis has over 30 years of experience in printing technology investigations and product development. His current responsibility is translating megatrend and competitive analysis into the vision for the Digital Manufacturing Industry and developing the execution strategy for creating this manufacturing ecosystem, from design through production and use. Davis is an expert in product lifecycles, from design through manufacture, including part manufacture, product assembly, distribution, and use. He previously, held a series of positions in HP’s ~$20B Print business, focusing on creating and scaling new business opportunities.

Abstract: Invention, innovation, and insight are keywords for any technologist and designer working in the academic or commercial sector. In the 21st century, there is a wealth of new and emerging materials, alongside digital methods for the manufacture of products and services that are transforming and enhancing our lives. But it is also the age-old techniques and crafts traditions that demonstrate fundamental benchmarks in material culture that are the foundation for high-quality printing and fabrication today and in the future. And without these benchmarks in quality, we have no assurance as to diversity and quality over the ubiquitous and inadequate. Exploring the future of printing and fabrication, new ways of thinking and working, alongside traditional methods of making, the talk presents a range of multi-disciplinary research undertaken at The Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR). The talk includes case studies on the Centre’s research into new transformative technologies and novel print processes that forge crossovers between the hand-made, knowledge and materials, analogue and digital fabrication for practice-led design, physical and tactile surfaces, and reconstructing historic reprographic methods.

The CFPR is a key part of the art and design community at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. The Centre has been pioneering research in printing methods, technologies, and practices since 1998. Working with print practitioners, historians, and industries, its mission is to contemplate, understand, innovate, and disseminate research on all aspects of print history, fine art practice, manufacturing, and materials, from developing 3D printable ceramic materials to disruptive printing technologies and developing new inks.

Carinna Parraman is a professor of design, colour, and print, and director of the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is PI for a £7.7 million project funded by Research England (E3) in recognition of the Centre’s internationally acclaimed practical research into the artistic, historical, and industrial significance of creative print practices, processes, and technologies. She is a specialist in colour printing, RGB printing, texture printing also called 2.5D printing, photomechanical print history, colour theory, and perception within the fields of fine art, design, and the applied arts, in particular the craft of the digital. Her research interest addresses the relationship between the appearance of colour and materials, and how these are captured and reproduced in paintings and photographs. She recently published a book on “2.5D Printing: Bridging the Gap Between 2D and 3D Applications” (Wiley, 2018); and is co-participant of Appearance Printing - European Advanced Research School (ApPEARS, Norway). She is currently exploring paper construction, origami, and paper engineering for new applications. She is a collector of historic colour paint charts, and has been expanding this collection by photographing colours in the world via the Instagram #colouraday.

Abstract: To comply with the increasing and diverging requirements for today’s inkjet technology, a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes is very important. It is essential that decisions can be made based on theoretical, numerical, or experimental models as a firm basis for further product development. At Canon Production Printing, we develop the experimental techniques, numerical codes, and theoretical frameworks in close collaboration with academic research groups in the research program fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing. This talk presents some highlights of this research program, e.g., the quantitative detection of misting down to 1 fl. drops with a laser induced fluorescence technique, evaporation induced segregation processes within a single sessile drop with confocal laser microscopy, and the migration of drops on a thin liquid layer with digital holographic cameras, supported by numerical simulations down to the molecular scale and theoretical evaluations.

Herman Wijshoff studied applied physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands). In 1986, he received his MSc in physics and joined the research and development department of Océ Technologies B.V. in Venlo, the Netherlands. Since 1997 Wijshoff has been involved in the inkjet research program. This research program is in close collaboration with the University of Twente in Enschede, where he received his PhD (2008). In 2015 he was appointed as part time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology for the chair fluid dynamics of inkjet printing.