John Hauer
3D Printing at CES – Part One: The Content
I’m back from CES, and am just starting to feel normal again. Maybe it’s all the people? Over 170,000 attended this year. After a while it starts to weigh on…
3D Printing Matures at CES
I’ve popped vitamins, ate right, and got plenty of sleep over the last week. Now I’m at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. With 5,000+ exhibits and a…
Access Begets Innovation: 3D Printing & Opportunity
ROBO 3D recently conducted a Survey with Northrop Grumman. In it, engineers, analysts, and product support staff were asked if they would prototype more often if 3D printing were more…
3D Printing’s Real Money
A few weeks ago, I spoke at the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org Digital Summit on the topic of 3D printing at retail. I really hope I made the case for…
Packaging 3D Print — The Global Upheaval That’s About to Occur
Ask not what 3D printing can do for packaging, but instead what packaging can do for 3D printing! Sorry to rip off that famous John F. Kennedy line, but just…
Escalating Positive Outcomes with 3D Printing
Back in January 2013 we were planning the launch of 3DLT. We wanted to kick things off with a bang (apologies in advance for that). Crowdsourcing was an important part…
Old War Horses: Lessons for 3D Printing Service Bureaus
In my last article, I looked back at how 2D digital printing developed in the decade of the 1990’s and discussed how 3D printing equipment manufacturers now, could apply the…
What Really Happened with Print: History Lessons for 3D Printing Equipment Manufacturers
If you know me, or have read my work, you know I come from the 2D printing industry and was selling machines for Xerox back in the 1990’s, when digital…
Another Bite of The Big 3D Printed Apple
It seems like every time I go to Manhattan I’ve got something to prove. I spent a lot of time there in the mid-90s trying to convince educational publishers that…
