Shapeways in Eindhoven
Description
Shapeways is a 3D printing service and community. Their mission, to make it possible for everyone to design, make and sell products. These products are made with 3D printers. Currently the largest leading company in the world when it comes to 3D printing. Shapeways was founded in Eindhoven in 2007 by Peter Weijmarshausen, Marleen Vogelaar and Robert Schouwenburg.
Currently, it is possible to choose from more than 50 manufacturing materials, from single pieces to thousands of pieces All designed by you with software provided by Shapeways. Shapeways facilitates commercial trading and distribution of your own designed products in the field of 3D printing All this brings with it very high-level requirements, including a completely new ERP programme designed by Shapeways itself.
Atomatic Recognition Project (ARP) and Shapeways
In the adaptive manufacturing (or 3D printing) world, customer-related information is often lost during post-processing of printed trays. The "Automatic Recognition Project" (ARP) aims to recover this information through visual recognition. By using "structured light" with a scanner, a 3D reconstruction, a point cloud, of the physical model (FM) can be created. A set of "Global Shape Descriptors" (GSD), which specify the model, based on: line-lengths,
triangle-surfaces, etc., are then calculated, and correlated to a similar set of GSD for the digital models in the tray. Based on that, a match is found, which goes 'easy' for white models. ...And now for our challenge. And yes, quality, and customised down to the smallest letters in an engagement ring are part of it!
New-style meeting format
All participants will be sent information in advance in preparation for a problem area at Shapeways. This will form the common thread during our meeting. For its part, Shapeways will allow us to look more inside the kitchen than we are used to. This creates more depth and a greater WIN-WIN scope, with an increased chance of spin-off effects for all parties.
Maximum number of participants: 25 (introducers welcome)
Speaker(s)
Host: Stefan Rink (VP of Manufacturing Europe)
Location
Kanaaldijk-Zuid 3A, 5313 LE Eindhoven
Organiser
Business Administration
Name and contact details for information
Rob Broens, tel. 06 22 29 49 07 or via e-mail