A survey coordinated by the Institute of Technological Research (IPT) on the challenges of adopting additive manufacturing in Brazil indicated the high costs of implementing the process and the fact that the technology has not yet reached a productivity and/or final quality that competes with competition. to established technologies as the main bottlenecks for the application of the technology, also known as 3D printing.
Forty-one entities, with a total of 46 participants, answered the questionnaire prepared by the IPT's Additive Manufacturing Study Group, including users such as Embraer, Mahle Metal Leve, Mercedes Benz and Petrobras, suppliers of machinery and raw materials, service providers and advisory services.
The main difficulties encountered by companies with ongoing commercial or experimental practices for the application of additive manufacturing were technological maturity (53% of indications from participants), costs (40%) and knowledge of technology (13%); for companies that are studying the process but do not yet have applications, the numbers collected indicated a tie, with 44% of the responses given citing both technological maturity and knowledge of the technology.
“The fact that both companies that already have commercial or experimental applications, and those that are studying the process, pointed out the level of technological maturity as the biggest barrier; in second place comes the cost of the process, which can be divided into equipment cost and raw material cost", highlights Daniel Leal Bayerlein, researcher at the Metallurgical Process Laboratory at IPT.
Forty-one entities, with a total of 46 participants, answered the questionnaire prepared by the IPT's Additive Manufacturing Study Group, including users such as Embraer, Mahle Metal Leve, Mercedes Benz and Petrobras, suppliers of machinery and raw materials, service providers and advisory services.
The main difficulties encountered by companies with ongoing commercial or experimental practices for the application of additive manufacturing were technological maturity (53% of indications from participants), costs (40%) and knowledge of technology (13%); for companies that are studying the process but do not yet have applications, the numbers collected indicated a tie, with 44% of the responses given citing both technological maturity and knowledge of the technology.
“The fact that both companies that already have commercial or experimental applications, and those that are studying the process, pointed out the level of technological maturity as the biggest barrier; in second place comes the cost of the process, which can be divided into equipment cost and raw material cost", highlights Daniel Leal Bayerlein, researcher at the Metallurgical Process Laboratory at IPT.
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The results were presented to the participants at a meeting held at the IPT. Rafael Boffo Mataran, pre-planning analyst at Mercedes-Benz do Brasil, explains that the automaker still sees the lack of local material and machinery manufacturers in Brazil, which brings a higher cost of production because the company ends up depending of imports: “Everything we face today to place serial parts on the market with additive manufacturing always ends up being blocked due to the value of the final production, such as printing speed, cost of materials and investments in machines. All these parameters end up preventing additive manufacturing from expanding even further in the national market”.
To learn more about the survey promoted by IPT and the event, access here.
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