Technologies

VCE Solutions and The Solutions Group monitor, report,and advise on the following technologies:

Digital 2D Printing

  • Digital Electrophotography
  • Laser Image Development
  • Inkjet
  • Thermal Direct
  • Thermal Transfer

Digital 3D Printing

  • Stereolithography (SLA)
  • Micro-Stereolithography (MSL)
  • Film Micro-Stereolithography (FMSL)
  • Film Transfer Imaging (FTI)
  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
  • Selective Laser Melting (SLM) / Laser cladding (LC)
  • Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS)
  • Selective Area Laser Deposition (SALD)
  • Laser Induced Film Transfer (LIFT)
  • Photon-Jet Laser Material Transfer (PJLMT)
  • Digital Light Processing (DLP)
  • Electron Beam Melting (EBM)
  • Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication (EBF3)
  • Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) / Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
  • Integrated Extrusion Deposition (IED/PED)
  • Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM)
  • Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)
  • Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL)
  • Solid Ground Curing (SGC)
  • 3D Inkjet (3DIJ), Polyjet Modeling (PJM) & Multijet Modeling (MJM)
  • Inkjet Liquid Binding Powder (IJLBP)
  • Electrostatic Inkjet
  • Aerosol Jet, AIST
  • Digitally Controlled Syringe Deposition:
    Robo-casting (RC), Fab@home, Foodini
  • Cold Metal Transfer (CMT)
  • Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) (UAM)
  • Very High Power Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (VHP UAM)
  • Near Field Electro-Spinning (NFES)

 

For descriptions of 3D Additive Manufacturing: http://www.vcesolutions.com/www/library/PDF20110929_IS&T2011_DIGITAL%20FABRICATION_PRESENTATION.pdf

Analog Printing

  • Lithography
  • Screen Printing
  • Flexography
  • Offset Lithography
  • Gravure
  • Letterpress

Analog Coating

  • Slot-die
  • Spin
  • Spray
  • Roll
  • Gravure
  • Blade
  • Curtain
  • Vacuum
  • Sputter
  • Plasma
  • Electroplate

 

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