The Production Facility. The Manufacturing Office

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1 industrial 3d printing made easy Fastest Time to Fabricated Part The Production Facility of the Future: The Manufacturing Office Rize Inc. 4C Gill Street, Woburn, MA 01801, USA (978)

2 INTRODUCTION McKinsey Global Institute reports that of the $12 trillion* manufacturing industry, $800 billion per year by 2025, will be direct manufacturing and tooling. And, of that, 50% ($230 billion to $550 billion per year) will be 3D printed.** Despite this colossal market opportunity, most of today s industrial-class 3D printers are suitable only for prototyping and tooling and must be situated in additive manufacturing labs due to their size, expense, special facility and equipment requirements and complex pre- and post-processing methods. Currently, only a few systems, Carbon, HP and some metal 3D printers, are capable of addressing the market for low- to mid-volume manufacturing parts. Although these companies are undeniably legitimizing 3D printing for manufacturing, their systems come with significant limitations that restrict the large-scale adoption of, and applications for, 3D printers in direct manufacturing. This white paper will discuss how 3D printing has the potential to increase large-scale adoption of the technology for new direct manufacturing applications beyond the additive manufacturing lab and explore what is needed to get there. THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE: YOUR OFFICE In order to significantly expand manufacturing applications and markets for 3D printing, the technology must break the chains of the additive manufacturing lab and move into the production facility of the future: The Manufacturing Office, wherever that office is located and whatever form it takes. There s an enormous, unaddressed market for producing customized one-offs and low-volume manufactured end-use parts and tooling on demand, in both lab and non-lab environments, including the mechanical engineer s office to make real functional parts; on the manufacturing floor next to the assembly line to make custom tools, jigs and fixtures on the fly; in the factory to make spare part replacements on demand rather vs. in bulk years earlier and stored; in the dental, medical and audiology office to produce dental devices, surgical guides and hearing aids uniquely tailored for each patient; the mechanic shop to make replacement parts; on ships, in air, on spacecraft and in military field locations for field repairs and more. Consumer/hobby-class 3D printers are not suitable for rigorous industrial use. The Manufacturing Office is a new paradigm in manufacturing because existing manufacturing-capable 3D printing systems are unable to address this market. It is simply inefficient and impractical for them to produce one-offs, given their size, price and complexity and they certainly aren t systems that can be located in the office or in other remote, non-lab locations due to their materials, processes and post-processing requirements.

3 Prototyping-capable 3D printers, representing the majority of industrial-class 3D printers today, cannot produce parts with the required strength, surface finish, heat deflection temperature (HDT), color, and other properties that would be considered acceptable for manufactured end-use parts. Further, these systems involve steps throughout their processes that cannot be done in an office and in remote locations outside of a specially-equipped additive manufacturing lab. But what about all of this? Prototyping 6 Technologies + Tooling Manufacturing (Office) Injection molded parts, custom manufacturing Manufacturing HP, Carbon, Unaddressed! Metal Printers Injection Molded Parts / Custom Manufacturing Manufacturing Office There s an enormous, unaddressed market for producing customized one-offs and low-volume manufactured end-use parts and tooling on demand, in lab and non-lab environments. With the deafening burst of the consumer and hobbyist 3D printing bubble over the last couple of years, some large companies that previously offered a low-cost line of desktop 3D printers targeting this audience wisely abandoned those lines in favor of expensive industrial-class manufacturing machines suitable for additive manufacturing lab environments. Yet other companies have taken a different approach. These companies didn t change their machines. For them, the shift has purely been a marketing one, where they are selling their hobby-class desktop 3D printers (previously marketed as consumer 3D printers) as low-cost, commercial-grade systems. Still other companies have made some minor changes to their hobby-class machines or software and labeled them professional or commercial 3D printers, more for marketing and sales impact rather than meaningful enhancements that would benefit the typical industrial user. However, these machines are not suitable for manufacturing and other industrial use either in the office or the lab due to insufficient part strength and material properties, messy and time-consuming post-processing methods, substandard part quality, printer reliability and durability concerns, inadequate build volume and harmful particle emissions, among other factors.

4 Hobby 3D Printer Spaghetti in holes, missing geometry, fragile, can t remove support Rize One Complete geometry, removed support in seconds, best-in-class Z-strength, stronger, low moisture absorption Rize s Augmented Deposition 3D printing technology is the only one capable of addressing the untapped Manufacturing Office market and, in doing so, growing commercial 3D printing adoption and applications for manufacturing. Suitable for the office or additive manufacturing lab, Augmented Deposition is uniquely capable of 3D printing injection molded-quality parts, with the same best-in-class Z-strength, surface finish, voxel (3D pixel)-variable material properties, detailed color and more, while offering a completely safe, clean and easy process from file to finished part with near zero post-processing, zero toxic emissions and safe, Green, biocompatible materials. These factors, combined with its compact size and affordable price, permit efficient, low-cost production of customized one-off and low-volume tools, spare parts and end-use products on the fly by the people who use them. Consumer/hobby-class 3D printers are not suitable for rigorous industrial use.

5 Rize One is the only industrial-class 3D printer suitable for the office or lab. AUGMENTED DEPOSITION COMPLEMENTS LAB MANUFACTURING 3D PRINTERS Rize s ability to efficiently produce customized one-offs and low-volumes of end-use parts anywhere and anytime, makes it an ideal complement to manufacturing-capable machines operating in labs building low- to mid-volumes of end-use parts. In fact, over- burdened additive manufacturing lab managers are not only happy to use Rize 3D printers in their labs, they would also like to place them in their engineers offices to reduce their own workload and put parts directly and immediately into the hands of the people who need them. According to Gary Rabinovitz, Additive Manufacturing Lab Manager at Reebok, A near zero post-processing and environmentally-friendly 3D printer would enable our designers to 3D print themselves and reduce some of the workload from the lab. Many lab managers already have initiatives under way to place machines in their engineers offices, but, until now, they haven t had a suitable solution. ABOUT RIZE Rize is unlocking 3D printing for new markets and driving the next wave of innovation and advancement in manufacturing with our patented Augmented Deposition technology that is the only efficient means to 3D print oneoffs of injection molded-quality parts on demand. Our deeply experienced team of former Z Corporation, Objet and Revit materials, hardware and software experts, with over 20 patents, is fulfilling an unmet need for a completely office-safe and affordable 3D printing platform that can be used successfully across a wide variety of commercial applications, including, production parts, tooling, fixtures and jigs and customized end-use products. *2016 data **May 2013 report Rize Inc. 4C Gill Street, Woburn, MA 01801, USA (978) info@rize3d.com Rize Inc. All rights reserved. Rize, the Rize logo, Augmented Deposition and Rizium are pending trademarks or registered trademarks of Rize Inc. All other company and product names are pending trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.