OC CIO Minutes February 13, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

February 13, 2014 meeting

 

Present:        Jeff Crowell, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown, William Zauner, Ashwin Rangan, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Reid, Jeff Hecht, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers for meetings through August 2014 are listed in Attachment A.

Note the change for March.

 

Topic:          3D Printing

          “3D printing will change the world!”.

Jeff Crowell did a good job of persuading us that this might happen in the not too distant future. 3D printing was first developed in 1984 by Charles Hull and named SLA – stereolithography – an additive manufacturing or printing technology used for producing models, prototypes, patterns and production parts.  There are a wide variety of 3D printers in use today. Slide 5, 6 shows how it works – each scanner/printer can scan, print, copy and fax.  3d printing is experiencing multidimensional growth (Slides 9-13). Gartner says there was 75% growth in 2013 – by 2016 enterprise 3D printers will cost less than $2,000.  There are many advantages to 3D printing – lower cost for a new business by reducing product development time, production costs, energy costs, material costs, inventorying carrying costs, etc.  Major players in this game are Autodesk, Stratasys, 3D Systems DDD, Dassault, Shapeways.  Within 10 years there will be one in every house (?).  There are negatives e.g. 3D printed guns, counterfeiting, drugs on demand, intellectual property losses.  There are endless uses in medicine, paleontology, archaeology, building construction, etc.  The potential is amazing.  Look at Jeff’s slides and appendices. They are at:   http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

 

Jeff also showed us a number of slide shows, which helped our understanding of the current uses and potential. Great presentation.