- How a Canadian Company is Utilising 3D scanning and printing to speed product development
- The principles behind both 3D Scanning & Printing
- The place of these technologies in the innovation cycle
- Competitive positioning of companies using 3D
From the early prehistoric discovery of how to control fire to the printing press, from the telephone to the Internet, it is our ability to think and innovate that drove us to where we are today. Innovation is key for businesses but, with the fierce global competition, time to market is critical when working on product development. Engineers and designers are faced with an immense pressure to come up with new products and innovate—faster! How can they deal with these mounting daily challenges? This presentation will demonstrate how 3D printing, along with 3D scanning, is used by professionals on a daily basis and how these new tools completely revolutionized the way they work.
This was an excellent lecture with live demos of scanning of large sized complex objects. The lead speaker Francois Pare took the audience through the various methodologies and scanning techniques in use on industrial scale projects. Francois is an account manager with Creaform . His engaging and interactive presentation had the audience fully involved in his presentation.
Francois was accompanied by two profesionals who are engaged on various projects who completed the evening by demonstrating applications that they are involved in, including activities involving complex analysis of aerospace parts through to restoration of heritage artifacts in Canadian Crown buildings. We had the company of a group of students from Carleton University who attended as part of their academic activities.
The audience had the opportunity to use the space age scanners on really complex objects, learn how the scanning technology can position objects in space and then see how the software behind the system enables measurement, scaling and analysis of objects being scanned.