Emerging 3rd Industrial revolution - 3D printing community

Presentation held at Open Knowledge Festival 2012. Slides are based on survey results, which can be found from http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/05/manufacturing-in-motion/

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1. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Open Knowledge Festival 2012 Emerging 3rd Industrial revolution - 3D printing community Jarkko Moilanen Want3D Ltd
2. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Statistical Studies of Peer Production • We provide open source survey platform for different P2 communities • Analysed results of surveys are provided under some Commons license • We require that all collected data will be open sourced. • Supported by
3. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Research Background • Part of new Statistical Studies of Peer Production project • Statistical research • Open Source/Data driven • Academic orientation • Purpose: provide accurate statistical research results about commons-based peer production especially 3D manufacturing community.
4. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 3D Manufacturing Community Survey • Was conducted 1st - 15th May 2012 • Framework: LimeSurvey open source tool • Contained 20 questions • 358 participants (97 partial) • Targeted to • DIY 3D printer developers, • early-adopters and • 'end-users' (mostly service users)
5. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Survey results
6. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Participants – a few characteristics • 'Average' respondent was a highly educated 35 years old male from Europe or North America
7. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Participants – a few characteristics • Detailed age distribution (15-66 years)
8. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Participants – a few characteristics • Education: 56% at least Bachelor Degree
9. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Participants – a few characteristics • Come from out-side of DIY communities
10. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Participants – a few characteristics • Identity: part of Maker Movement
11. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 3D Printers - First Touch • Has been rising since 2005 – 2006
12. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 For what purpose? (1/2) • Functional models (144 times), • Artistic items (140 times), • Spare parts to devices (133 times), • For research/educational purposes (128 times) and • Direct part production (113 times)
13. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Most Common 3D Printers • RepRap, MakerBot, Objet, Zcorp, 3D Systems
14. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Most used materials • Plastics and metal (DIY vs services)
15. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Most Common 3D Printing Services • None (?) – Shapeways – Ponoko - i.Materialise
16. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Who are those 'none'?
17. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Open Source or not? • 55% of the participants were involved at least in one open source project. • Nearly 20% wanted to be involved in the future. • Roughly 26% did not want to be involved in open source project.
18. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Motivation to use 3D Printing Services • Agreed: • Professional quality printings • To test how the services work • Disagreed: • Publishing developed apps • Downloading apps
19. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Future – most wanted feature • Object quality (166), • Speed (119), • Cheaper material prices (115), • Metal material printing (108) and • Cheaper printer price (106)
20. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Bottlenecks (1/3) ➢ Materials and quality • “Only plastic is a drag, we need metal printers” • “3D printers presently make stuff that looks like the cheapest crap and it is thus not very interesting” ➢ Great for hackers, not so much consumers • lack of “Plug and Play” printers and ease of construction. • lack of instant gratification factor (process sucks)
21. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Bottlenecks (2/3) ➢ Software • High/steep learning curve • “Open source CAD software that is as powerful and easy to use as the commercial varieties” • Where are web apps? ➢ Public awareness • A lot of articles about 3D printing and the promise it holds • awareness of the cost and availability at the low end
22. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Bottlenecks (3/3) ➢ Lack of social co-operation • ”there’s an arrogance factor in the community that needs overcoming.” • Fragmentation or diversity of solutions and tools (sign of a healthy community?) ➢ Patents • “major patents hold by few 3D printing companies (Open Source 3D Printing companies cannot grow due to patent risks, note for instance Canonical or Red Hat in SW business)” ➢ Costs
23. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Future of '3D community Survey' • Plan is to do it annually • Longitudinal data • Raw survey result data is available in SPSS, R and CSV formats http://surveys.peerproduction.net/open-data/ • Question Form needs translations! • French, Spanish,...
24. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 2012-09-20 Questions? • For more information, read http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ • Send email: jarkko@peerproduction.net, tere.vaden@aalto.fi surveys.peerproduction.net