How Quick Can 3D Printers Be？

In an office building in Beijing, a 3D printer is working under instructions from a computer. A model of Notre Dame de Paris, the size of a paper drawer, rises from the resin solution. The patterns on the clocks are visible to the naked eye. It takes 13 minutes to complete, which is currently the fastest speed for 3D printing in the world. Generally, it takes about 6 hours to print the same model.

 

Since its inception, 3D printing technology has attracted much attention because it can meet the requirements of small batch and customization. However, the production speed determines whether 3D printing can be accepted by the manufacturing industry. Li Houmin, who holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Southern California and Auburn University in the United States, has always hoped to increase the popularity rate of 3D printing by increasing the speed. Finally, he has successfully developed and founded UNIZ Technology, becoming the "fastest 3D printing company in the world" with a speed of 1200mm/h, and has received orders from Mercedes-Benz, Grunow, Tesla and other enterprises. "If you can take the first place, why take the second?" Li Houmin has the confidence and pursuit of a "technological bull". If it takes many days to print a component, it loses the practical effect and charm of 3D printing. Different from the general thinking in the market, Li Houmin's team made a breakthrough through light curing system optimization.

 

Doing experiments is boring day after day. Their teams often work until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night. Sometimes the building doors are locked. However, everyone is very happy, because they are very confident in their own research and development ideas and believe that this must be the correct technological path. Breakthrough and success only take time. Finally, the printing speed reached 1200 mm/h. This means that at the same time, someone else's 3D printer can only print a bottle cap, while UNIZ Technology can print a Coke bottle.

 

Through independent research and development, a Chinese start-up enterprise has developed its late-development advantages and gradually can be on an equal footing with the world's leading enterprises. It took only five years for it to surpass. Li Houmin said proudly: "At the technical level, our speed is absolutely superior. At the pricing level, our prices are more competitive than similar products. " UNIZ Technology has developed a variety of 3D printers of different sizes according to application scenarios, ranging from printing rings to printing industrial-grade products. Its service scope covers industries such as industrial manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, education and training, dental and clinical medicine, entertainment and animation, footwear manufacturing, etc. Taking dentistry as an example, it used to take a week to make plaster dental models according to the shape of the user's teeth, and the accuracy was slightly poor. Now, using the 3D printing technology of UNIZ technology, multiple dental models can be rapidly generated while ensuring the accuracy, greatly improving the manufacturing speed of dental models and saving the time of doctors and patients.