Certainly the design principle.
So, your students will perhaps be learning to design objects using
a fused filament process.
The learning of those design principles, of how to design for
additive manufacturing, will be applicable in a variety of different spaces.
Now it's important to recognize that different additive processes
will yield different capabilities,
and different opportunities to expand the design envelope.
So what they're really learning here is that baseline, that foundation that's
going to allow them to get a head start on the rest of the world.
They're also going to learn to conceptualize
the capabilities of additive manufacturing.
So that when they get to that company or when they turn to their business and
say hey, here's how additive manufacturing can really play a role in our broader
manufacturing context.
They're going to be much better prepared to have ideas about how to move that
company forward using these technologies.
The additive manufacturing space compared to conventional manufacturing,
is still relatively small.
But the important thing is that it's growing very fast.
Additive manufacturing is not a panacea.
It's not going to change everything.
But it's going to change some things in really, very important ways.
Additive manufacturing technologies offer the promise of addressing some really
troubling, really challenging product design and supply chain issues.
The market is growing at almost 30% per year and
that's been sustained over quite a long time.
So we're looking at a market that is growing by billions of dollars every year.
There are academic studies that show that there can in
fact be a return on investment for a home printer today.
More likely than that, I think, is we are going to see
a dipole model emerge sometime in the next five to ten years.
Where your local big box retailer, or maybe your local hardware store,
will begin to deploy these kinds of technologies.
So when something goes wrong in your home, or
when you have a product that you want to download.
Perhaps you download and buy it, purchase a design from a service.
You will send that over to your local shop and they will manufacture it for
you, very much as America Makes did for these objects for us today.
And then sometime, maybe not in the next five to ten years,
we'll see that actually penetrate the home in a significant way.
At Deloitte we have produced an online course, a MOOC.
Go to www.dupress.com/3d-opportunity.
We've got many perspectives that we'll look at individual dimensions of
the additive manufacturing questions.
And then we also have our online course,
which is very similar to the course you're doing here.
It's about three hours, a certificate credit.
That they can walk through each of the seven ASTM processes for
additive manufacturing.
As well as a framework for
understanding how additive manufacturing applies to the business.
It's won awards, we've had lots of users.
And we'd invite everybody to participate.
Additive manufacturing, the universe of possibility is very broad and
it's easy to get intimidated trying to figure out, what am I going to do first?
Just get started, particularly again if you're a business that manufactures
things, because your competitors are getting started.
And this is an area where you want to learn and build capabilities over time.
So, that you skill yourself as an individual.
And so that you deliver those capabilities to your business, so
that it can succeed in the long term.
>> Don't be afraid to fail.
>> Don't be afraid to fail.
No.
>> Well great job Marc, thank you so much.
>> Thank you, it was a pleasure being here.
>> Thank you.
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