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16 Oct 2015 1A Version XA-031130-PS Aqueous Review: Industrial BDT InPrint Industrial Print Show, 10th Nov 2015, Munich

The future of inkjet in Advanced

Manufacturing applications Mark Ritchie, Product Manager, Xaar plc



"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.“

Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles, 1962

Predicting the future



“I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and

in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995




Back to the Future 2 (1989)





Wearable technology

Video calls



Key industry drivers

• Cost down - “More for Less”

• Manufacturing flexibility

• Mass customisation

• Waste reduction

Industrial inkjet today



• Analogue to digital shift

• Inkjet expansion to industrial print

Commercial – books, brochures, bills

Packaging – corrugated board, direct-to-shape

Décor – ceramics, laminates, glass

Textile – clothing and decor

• Functional applications emerging

Electronics – devices and displays

Energy – cells, batteries

Construction – structural coatings

Bio-medical

Industrial inkjet today



End Shooter Type

Side Shooter Type

• End shooter v. Side Shooter

Reliability – increased machine uptime

Fluid range – particulated fluids

Throughput – single pass

• Fluid range

Chemistry

Materials compatibility

Viscosity / Temperature / Wetting

• Addressability and accuracy

• Drop size and uniformity

• Speed and reliability

• Throw Distance

Challenges for inkjet

• 24//7 production environment



Advanced Manufacturing

Touchscreens

• Touchscreen and black matrix printing

• Multi-layer printing solutions • Multiple systems installed /

on order

Solar

• Front metalisation on solar cells

• 0.3% gain in cell efficiency vs traditional screen printing techniques

• Market still suppressed

• Nano-imprint Lithography • Enabling technology in

300mm segment • Focus on CMOS • Xaar 1002 AMp • Targets <1.0pL @ 1 m/s

Si Chip Manufacturing



And 3D printing?



25n

m

• 7 processing technologies

• Range of materials

Metals; Polymers; Ceramics; Paper

• Applications

Modelling

Prototyping

Bespoke manufacturing

Small batch manufacturing

• 3 inkjet based technologies

Direct material jetting – UV curable polymers

Binder jetting – to powder / sand bed

Powder bed fusion - HSS

3D Printing - Additive Manufacturing



Volume

Hi

Lo

Prototyping Bespoke Manufacturing Modelling

Non-Functional Functional

Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing

FDM

ProJet

LOM MIT

Connex

Voxeljet

ExOne

HSS / Laser SL MIT Laser DMJ

MakerBot

RepRap

Fabster

Mcor

SHS

Blue

Printer

DMLS

EOS

ARCAM

Additive manufacturing

High Speed Sintering

Factum



High Speed Sintering (HSS)



25n

m

• £1.5 million Innovate UK co-funded project

• High speed sintering of functional polymers

High volume, low cost components

Low volume, high performance components

Bespoke through to volume manufacturing

• Led by Farapack Polymers

Spin-off of University of Sheffield

• Partners

Unilever; BAE Systems; Cobham Aerospace;

Sebastian Conran Associates; Xaar;

University of Loughborough (IP)

• Multiple licenses signed

The Factum project



• Industrial decoration and coatings

• Fine patterning

• Applications

Industrial coatings

Decorative / Functional glass

Display and device construction

Additive manufacturing

Solar, Fuel Cells and Batteries

PCB and semiconductor

Bio-medical

• Inkjet – an emerging and revolutionary technology

Industrial inkjet tomorrow



The future of inkjet in Advanced

Manufacturing applications Mark Ritchie, Product Manager, Xaar plc

the future of inkjet in advanced manufacturing applications · • xaar 1002 amp • targets

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