3D Printing in Travel & Tourism Industry
3D Printing
Traditional manufacturing is a subtractive process, which is about taking a big piece of metal or any material and then cutting out/ hollowing out or subtracting some part of it to get a finished product.
Modern manufacturing used subtractive and additive processes, which is creating molds that may be using the subtractive process and then adding liquid metal/filler material to the mold to create objects.
The additive manufacturing is a pure additive process, which is making three dimensional solid projects by layering material in a required shape,
3D printing is such an additive process where the material is analogous to the ink of the printer which is layered using a printer head, the information of layers is stored in a digital file and software is used to execute the digital file, each layer is a sliced cross-section of the eventually to be finished object.
3D printing technique uses less material, produces complex shapes & designs and is capable of producing objects with greater strength.
The 3D printing process has certain steps
Step 1 - Create a Digital Model using Digital graphic 3D modeling software
Step 2 - Select the Material Ink
Step 3 - Slide the digital model into layers using slicing software
Step 4- Feed the sliced digital file to the printer to print
Step 5- Wait for the product to be printed, the time taken for the product depends on the size of the product to the complexity of the design.
The one major advantage of this technique is that it dissolves the time & distance boundaries, anything can be printed anytime, anywhere.
A few major disadvantages of this technique right now are that, firstly the standard printer cannot print everything, we need variable sizes and types of the printers to print different complex products with complex sizes and designs, secondly, the material ink, the cost and the production of this is extremely limited in supply and expensive as of now and thirdly the time is taken to print an object is much longer than the production volume efficiencies of the industrial factories, but as we adopt this technology more and more, these disadvantages will fade over time. Like now we see some unit time scale advantages in some infrastructure projects like homes, where it used to take months to build a home now it only takes hours.
So what are the opportunities for the travel and tourism industry with this technology, well imagination has no limits;
A) Printing Souvenirs - tested, magnets, key chains, memento, etc.
B) Printing Hotels - tested - Philippines Lewis Grand Hotel(lewisgrand.com) unveiled the world's first 3D printed accommodation, a 130Sqm villa with two bedrooms, a fully functional living room, and a jacuzzi. The structure was build using Audfrey Rudeko's concrete printing method and took around 100 hours to complete.
C) Printing Infrastructure - Printing Bridges over streams and canals, tested in China, faster, stronger and in traditional design.
D) Printing Aeroplane Spareparts - Tested - Air NewZealand case study
Airbus (airbus.com) plans to assemble an entirely 3D printed aircraft by 2050, with a transparent body. In the meantime, the aircraft manufacturer has begun reducing the weight of their planes by adding 3D printed parts, the latest Airbus A350XWB being the first to take the skies, Air NewZealand experienced some issue in flight and ordered the spare part while in air and as soon as it touched down the spare part was ready at the destination to fit in and fly again.
Imagine you traveled to Srilanka, then you travel to India and then to Myanmar then to Thailand and then to Indonesia and at each destination, you liked a piece of expensive jewelry, you can buy it but need not carry it with you, it can be delivered to you in Australia when you reach back, the jeweler would send the design digital file print command to print the necklace to the printer in Australia, saving you all the hassles of the customs, foreign exchange and stress of theft. Saving jeweler all the hassles of craftmanship and shipment and for all, all the waiting time.
Let's widen this imagination, suppose one day you are living on a space station and you want to eat Tandoori Chicken, all you would need to do is print it, plate it and eat it. Maybe in the future, we would not need a kitchen at home, we just need to install a food printer that can print any dish from any cuisine in the world.
You can share your 3d printing imagination for the travel tourism and hospitality industry and maybe you will see what you imagined is already a reality or will soon be.
Traditional manufacturing is a subtractive process, which is about taking a big piece of metal or any material and then cutting out/ hollowing out or subtracting some part of it to get a finished product.
Modern manufacturing used subtractive and additive processes, which is creating molds that may be using the subtractive process and then adding liquid metal/filler material to the mold to create objects.
The additive manufacturing is a pure additive process, which is making three dimensional solid projects by layering material in a required shape,
3D printing is such an additive process where the material is analogous to the ink of the printer which is layered using a printer head, the information of layers is stored in a digital file and software is used to execute the digital file, each layer is a sliced cross-section of the eventually to be finished object.
3D printing technique uses less material, produces complex shapes & designs and is capable of producing objects with greater strength.
The 3D printing process has certain steps
Step 1 - Create a Digital Model using Digital graphic 3D modeling software
Step 2 - Select the Material Ink
Step 3 - Slide the digital model into layers using slicing software
Step 4- Feed the sliced digital file to the printer to print
Step 5- Wait for the product to be printed, the time taken for the product depends on the size of the product to the complexity of the design.
The one major advantage of this technique is that it dissolves the time & distance boundaries, anything can be printed anytime, anywhere.
A few major disadvantages of this technique right now are that, firstly the standard printer cannot print everything, we need variable sizes and types of the printers to print different complex products with complex sizes and designs, secondly, the material ink, the cost and the production of this is extremely limited in supply and expensive as of now and thirdly the time is taken to print an object is much longer than the production volume efficiencies of the industrial factories, but as we adopt this technology more and more, these disadvantages will fade over time. Like now we see some unit time scale advantages in some infrastructure projects like homes, where it used to take months to build a home now it only takes hours.
So what are the opportunities for the travel and tourism industry with this technology, well imagination has no limits;
A) Printing Souvenirs - tested, magnets, key chains, memento, etc.
B) Printing Hotels - tested - Philippines Lewis Grand Hotel(lewisgrand.com) unveiled the world's first 3D printed accommodation, a 130Sqm villa with two bedrooms, a fully functional living room, and a jacuzzi. The structure was build using Audfrey Rudeko's concrete printing method and took around 100 hours to complete.
C) Printing Infrastructure - Printing Bridges over streams and canals, tested in China, faster, stronger and in traditional design.
D) Printing Aeroplane Spareparts - Tested - Air NewZealand case study
Airbus (airbus.com) plans to assemble an entirely 3D printed aircraft by 2050, with a transparent body. In the meantime, the aircraft manufacturer has begun reducing the weight of their planes by adding 3D printed parts, the latest Airbus A350XWB being the first to take the skies, Air NewZealand experienced some issue in flight and ordered the spare part while in air and as soon as it touched down the spare part was ready at the destination to fit in and fly again.
Imagine you traveled to Srilanka, then you travel to India and then to Myanmar then to Thailand and then to Indonesia and at each destination, you liked a piece of expensive jewelry, you can buy it but need not carry it with you, it can be delivered to you in Australia when you reach back, the jeweler would send the design digital file print command to print the necklace to the printer in Australia, saving you all the hassles of the customs, foreign exchange and stress of theft. Saving jeweler all the hassles of craftmanship and shipment and for all, all the waiting time.
Let's widen this imagination, suppose one day you are living on a space station and you want to eat Tandoori Chicken, all you would need to do is print it, plate it and eat it. Maybe in the future, we would not need a kitchen at home, we just need to install a food printer that can print any dish from any cuisine in the world.
You can share your 3d printing imagination for the travel tourism and hospitality industry and maybe you will see what you imagined is already a reality or will soon be.
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