The application and commercialization of 3D Printing: Cases and Rules

Apr 09,2021 MGT

Topic:

The application and commercialization of 3D Printing: Cases and Rules

Time&Date: 

10:30-11:30, 2021/4/9 (Friday)

Speaker:

Dr. Jing Zhang 
Abstract:

3D Printing is changing the way of design and manufacturing in the world. In some fields, such as the hearing aid cases, 3D Printing has thoroughly wiped out the traditional way of how the business was done. But in other applications, the application and commercialization did not go as expected. What are the dominating factors that these succeeded may tell us and what those failed may teach us? What are the rules that we shall follow to guide us the way to the future of 3D Printing?

Biography:

Dr. Jing Zhang, the founder and CEO of ZSFab, is committed to Material Digitization to enable  material performance customization and solve application-oriented problems in various science and engineering fields, currently focusing on the orthopedic implant devices.

Since 2007, he has conducted in-depth research on cutting-edge metal 3D printing technology and applications, and systematically studied the entire workflow of metal 3D printing from hardware, materials to manufacturing processes. His Ph.D. work was supervised by Professor Khoshnevis, an academician of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow Member of the National Academy of Inventors, and the worldwide known father of 3D printing architecture. During Ph.D. program, he won the Provost Fellowship of the University of Southern California and the NASA Challenge Grand Prize. His master is taught by Professor Feng Lin at the Tsinghua University.

After the establishment of ZSFab in 2017, he led the team and developed the pioneering 3D printing Digitized Material technology to create materials from application needs. This technology first served orthopedic implant devices and solved the historical pain points of the material properties mismatch, low bone fusion rate and implant subsidence. The 3D printed titanium interbody fusion device developed from the Digitized Material technology has been cleared by the FDA 510(k).