SYNOPSIS

Additive manufacturing is a process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies. An additive manufacturing process in which liquid photopolymer in vast is selectively cured by light polymerization such as stereolithography. In 2009, the 3D printing patents of fuse deposition modelling (FDM) has been expired. The expiration of the patent has thrived the open source printing movement and the initial rise of the home/ personal desktop 3D printer. Besides, the laser sintering additive technology patent also expired in February, 2014. The talk will introduce the additive manufacturing technology such as material jetting, binder jetting, material extrusion, etc. as well as the current trend of additive manufacturing.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir.  Dr.  Tan  Chee Fai is a practising mechanical consultant, researcher and academician. He is graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and M. Sc. (Manufacturing  Systems  Engineering) from Universiti  Putra  Malaysia  (UPM),  as  well  as  PhD in Industrial Design Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
  
He  is  a  registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with Board of  Engineers,  Malaysia  (2006)  and  a member of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (2005). He actively involved in academic, publication,  consultation  as  well as research, design and development  activities.  His  field  of  expertise covers the aspects of mechanical engineering and industrial design engineering. He has vast experience in mechanical design of machinery, robotic, intelligent products and commercial vehicles. He has lead numbers of university and Malaysia Government funded projects as well as international funded projects. He has published more than  100  publications in international and local journals and conference proceedings that related to mechanical engineering. He is a qualified HRDF trainer and HRDF Recognition Prior Learning (RPL) Assessor.