As anyone who has even a passing interest in additive manufacturing probably knows by now, HP Inc. has just unveiled its potentially ground-breaking new Jet Fusion 3D Printing System. The printers promise a 10x increase in speed at half the cost of existing machines, not to mention the ability to deliver voxel-level resolution for production-ready commercial parts. Pretty incredible stuff — as the reception in the press has shown.
What's perhaps most exciting about advances like this is how it will help augment the future of making things, in which technologies like generative design produce complex geometries than can often only be fabricated using 3D printing. Consider two cases in point where 3D printing was critical: Airbus' bionic partition and Under Armour's ARCHITECH training shoe.
As with any breakthrough innovation, HP readily acknowledges that they didn't do it all alone and that collaboration with customers and partners helped bring the Jet Fusion system to life….