About S. Crump
At the November 2023 Stratasys LIVE Unveiling, Crump introduced the F3300, a new FDM system. He stated that in his "wildest dreams" he never thought FDM technology would become as productive as this system. The event also featured a customer, Dallas Martin from Toyota, who said the machine "knocked it out of the park" in addressing user feedback, citing improvements in speed, sensor technology, and larger spools.
In earlier appearances, Crump discussed the continuous build 3D demonstrator, describing it as a cloud-based system capable of producing up to 5,000 parts per day without a tool, with scalability achieved by adding printer modules. He also spoke about the expansion of 3D printing into lower-price systems and new applications, including architectural models, military uses, and medical applications. Crump noted that augmented manufacturing—using 3D printing for jigs and fixtures—is a proven solution that is often overlooked by mainstream media, and he emphasized that the future of 3D printing is "infinite," limited only by imagination.
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Hi, I'm Scott Crump, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Stratasys. One of the things that Stratasys produces are three-dimensional printers. I just finished a presentation here at the Rapid Show and talked a lot about 3D printing and the future of that, how it will expand into lower price systems, easier even than today to use, dedicated for specific applications, expanding from the focus of 3D printing for design engineers into architectural and many, many other applications. Of course, a 3D printer is a tool, it's an output device from computer aided design, and it can be used for a lot of different applications. The key to 3D printing is ease of use, push button to be able to output for architectural models, for the consumer type of devices. It's being used for helping students that want to learn CAD drafting as well as design as an output to see how that actual design works. It's being used in military applications actually in the field, as well as for lightweight and inexpensive drones, in addition to the many medical applications including being able to build a master for bone implants. In the future, we see 3D printers offering more and more different engineering real production grade plastics. Some of the future applications include building parts, and as you're building the parts, to fixture those so you get high precision with what's called supports or anchors and supports. For each material, like for instance ABS or for Ultem, we want to have a support material that matches those materials to be able to automatically build a part and then fully automatically remove them by just washing away, similar to the way dirt is washed off of clothing in a washing machine. One of the exciting challenges for Stratasys is to accelerate more what we call water-soluble removal supports from materials like Ultem and bulletproof polycarbonate, to make those more automated like we have succeeded with ABS which is being used in most all of our 15,000 systems that are in the field. So it's an exciting field and really glad to be here. If you want to learn more about Stratasys, you can look us up on www.stratasys.com. Thanks.
