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The Centre of Excellence in Additive Manufacturing (CoE AM) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has invited applications for a Grand Challenge for “Most Profitable 3D printing Business”.

Aim

The aim of this challenge is to produce acceleration output for the research topic “Most profitable
business case for Digital Toy using 3D printing in India”.

About the challenge

• The challenge is divided into two parts: The first part includes the development of a 3D printed working prototype using Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) or Digital Light Processing (DLP) for given specifications and the second part involves the preparation of a business case for the prototype in a given format.
• Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is a technology where the melt extrusion method is used
  to deposit filaments of thermal plastics according to a specific pattern.

3D printing

• The 3D printing process turns a whole object into thousands of tiny little slices, then makes it from the bottom-up, slice by slice.
• Those tiny layers stick together to form a solid object.
• Each layer can be very complex, meaning 3D printers can create moving parts like hinges and wheels as part of the same object.
• Examples of 3D Printing: 3D printing encompasses many forms of technologies and materials as 3D printing is being used in almost all industries you could think of.
• It is important to see it as a cluster of diverse industries with a myriad of different applications.