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Extending the Lifespan of Equipment through 3D Printing

Matthew Waterhouse, CEO

MSE 2016, Day 3, 14 October 2016 (Friday) 11:00am – 11:25am

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN LIFESPAN OF EQUIPMENT|

Due to innovations in 3D printing

Major companies are rapidly entering the 3D printing world leading to the biggest revolution in manufacturing and aftersales since the invention of the assembly line 140 years ago 6 things you can do to significantly increase the lifespan and reduce the life cycle cost of equipment and spare parts Additive manufacturing is becoming available to many companies with new strategies available to take advantage

• f the opportunities from developing in-house capabilities to
• ut-sourcing to service bureaus

LEADING COMPANIES| 3D printing already helping improve product

lifespan

Source: McKinsey & Co

Extend the lifespan of

• lder

equipment

• Reverse

engineering and printing

• f obsolete

parts no longer available from OEM

Reduce storage costs by on- demand printing

• Reduce

inventory

• Printing from

various platforms including BIM

Reduce transport costs for spare parts

• Local

printing, where parts are needed not where they are stored

Improve uptime with faster parts production

• Faster

prototyping

• Printing

moulds, dies and patterns to accelerate production

Cheaper spares with no MOQ printing

• 3D print in

full range of metals with no MOQ

Improve part performanc e

• Design
• ptimisation

taking advantage

• f new

printing technology

1 2 3 4 5 6

INNOVATIONS IN 3D PRINTING| Extending equipment lifespan

$000’s 3-5% of parts budget upto $5k per part Upto 4-6 weeks per part 10-20% on suitable parts 15-30% material savings

$000’s

Extend the lifespan of

• lder

equipment

• Reverse

engineerin g and printing of

• bsolete

parts no longer available from OEM

CASE STUDY 1| Extend the lifespan of older equipment

• Key part of the braking

system of clients vehicle fleet was failing

• OEM could not supply

without significant cost

• We reverse engineered,

CAD modelled and printed

• Successfully extended

use of fleet at minimal cost

3-5% of parts budget

CASE STUDY 2| Reducing storage costs by printing on demand

Reduce storage costs by printing

• n

demand

• Reduce

inventory by

• n demand

printing

• Printing

from various platforms including BIM

• Working with a leading car

parts company and MNC oil and gas company who hold

• ver USD1bn of spare parts

and want to reduce storage costs and increase availability

• Identified suitable parts for

printing based on high cost/low turn/long lead time

• Moving to prototype and

testing stage

15-30% material savings

CASE STUDY 3| Improving part performance

Improve part performanc e

• Design
• ptimisation

taking advantage of new printing technology

• GE redesigned the fuel

nozzle for it’s new LEAP jet engines

• Reduced the number of

component parts from 18 to print in 1 piece

• New part 25% lighter and

5x more durable

• GE plans to print >100,000

parts by end of decade

Design Manufacturin

g

Services

• Lack of long term

research into materials

• Need for IP and IT

security for design

• Limitations on

speed and size of printing

• High material

costs

• Security of 3DP

supply chain

• Limited number of

equipment suppliers

• Lack of

international testing standards

• Lack of

regulations and standards in supplier management STILL LIMITATIONS| That need to be overcome

DEVELOPING A STRATEGY| To capture the benefits of 3D printing Design Manufacturing Sales and marketing Distribution

Create new product development approach Rethink manufacturing & purchasing strategy Provide new business

• fferings

Re-think distribution strategy

• Optimise products

to take advantage

• f 3D printing
• Accelerate time to

market with new prototyping

• Identify parts

suitable for printing

• New designs
• High labour cost

items

• High levels of

customisation Develop new business

• pportunities
• High

customisation

• ptions
• High level of

design variability

• Local on demand

printing channels

• Develop supply

chain to support

• Develop new skills with central team to manage skills development
• Improve collaboration between design, manufacturing and distribution
• Re-skill QA/QC teams to manage new materials and technology

Invest in new capabilities

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