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A Manufacturing
Revolution
The question is not if but when companies
need to consider 3D printing. A.T. Kearney
is helping forward-thinking players over-
come the challenges and take advantage
of powerful opportunities in this next
generation of manufacturing.
What is 3D printing?
Each has a different way of processing input materials into a final product. Combined
with advanced scanning, 3DP technologies allow physical products to be converted
into digital design files and vice versa. Going forward, 3DP has the power to transform
the digital-physical interface for product design, development, and manufacturing.
New capabilities. Complex products can be mass produced without high fixed-cost
capital investments and at a lower variable cost than traditional methods.
Lead time and speed. Shorter design, process, and production cycles get products
to market faster.
Supply chain simplification. Production is closer to the point of demand with much
less inventory.
Waste reduction. With unused powder being reused for successive printing, much
less material is wasted.
Online
database app Her glasses cannot find an exact
Another app searches match, but a similar pair has just been
and matches products created in the online repository
to design files
17.2
Automotive $0.5 billion 1520%
12%
11.0
Jewelry $0.5 billion 2530%
7.0
12%
4.5
Current capability Capability in five to seven years Capability in more than seven years
Complex
Throughput Number of Assembly Precision and
materials complexity tolerance
Cars Hundreds per hour More than 100 Complex assembly, +/- 0.05 mm
(needs a volume- safety, and
based processing functional testing
breakthrough)
Apple Thousands per hour More than 50 Complex assembly, +/- 0.0001 mm
watches (needs a surface- safety, and
based printing functional testing
breakthrough)
Cameras Hundreds per hour More than 10 Complex assembly +/- 0.001 mm
and functional testing
Intellectual
property
management 3D data and
Scanning and Online Mass Printer and payment records
digitization app database app customize app center system management
Rapid image- Single-source Instant and Low-cost, high- Bitcoin and design 3D services
to-design repository of flexible design throughput, high- credit payment subscribers
matching all product and customization quality production options and providers
High-perfor- component design Visual dashboard of 3D printed Segmented database
mance scanning templates (the with final price products licensing and Secure
embedded iTunes of design) and sustainability Centralized royalties information
in high-quality Integration with information factories, local Last-mile processing
scanners original equipment Integration with printers, or fulfilment and transaction
Accurate and manufacturers and medical and user storefronts Records manage-
easy to use crowd-sourced guide advice app ment and web
designers services
How robust is my firms five- to 10-year value chain strategy against 3D disruptions?
What are the leading indicators and trigger points for anticipating 3D disruption?
Develop an under- Develop an initial set of Assess the possible Create forward-looking
standing of the 3D drivers for 3PD disruption futures for each value chain realities
printing landscape driver through expert for each driver
Consolidate into
interviews and
Identify trends and first- and second- Use market analysis to
baseline research
industry norms order drivers guide the projections
Create a compre-
$ Confirm and refine via
hensive vision of
expert interviews and
realistic possibilities
baseline development
D1 D2 D3 D4 D1 D2 D3 D4
D1 D2
D3 D4
Time
10% 50 125%
Setup/run +10% 21 5%
hours ratio
Future 10% 23 5%
break-even
Shop rates +10% 11 50%
3DP
10% 100 350%
1
Sensitivity analysis of underlying cost drivers. Broadly speaking, sensitivity refers to a measure of how far altering an input will vary the output.
2
Buy-to-fly ratio is an aerospace term that refers to the ratio of the weight of the raw material used for a component to the weight of the component itself.
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