Digital fabrication 3D printing technology, which does away with concepts such as tooling and assembly lines, is out to change designing and fabrication, said IIT-Hyderabad Director U.B. Desai here on Monday.
Speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of the International Symposium on Digital Fabrication organised by IIT-Hyderabad in association with Keio University Japan and Deakin University Australia under the aegis of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Prof. Desai said the technology enables fabrication using a wide variety of materials at home or the workplace without tooling, assembly lines or supply chains.
He described it as a technology that was being used to economically create custom and improved products. IIT-Hyderabad has already introduced digital fabrication as one of the subjects at the under-graduate level, he said. “Maybe soon it will develop as a full-fledged programme,” he added.
Prof. Jun Murai, Dean, Faculty of Environment & Information Studies, Keio University, said the use of digital fabrication had spread over large manufacturing facilities over the last two decades.
