| Ink Jet as a Manufacturing Process Symposium | ||
| Tuesday 29 - Wednesday 30th May, 2007 Hotel Fira Palace, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Ink jet is being considered for a wide range of manufacturing applications within the electronics, bio-medical, automotive, product decoration industries, and more. Compared to current manufacturing processes such as injection moulding, casting, plating, coating, photolithography and etching or printing processes such as offset, screen and pad printing, ink jet promises significant improvements in production flexibility, the ability to integrate outsourced processes directly into manufacturing lines, dispense a wide range of decorative or functional materials, work directly on components or parts or on much cheaper substrates than possible with current technologies. This symposium will focus on ink jet as a manufacturing process. A wide range of experts will describe the processes and products they are commercialising, from a fundamental component level through to final products. They will describe how ink jet has the potential to offer substantial financial benefits to manufacturers or enables new levels of product performance to be reached. |
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• Explore the key issues important to your understanding of ink jet as a manufacturing process with your counterparts from all sectors of relevant industries • Establish personal contacts with leading technologists, managers and innovators in the ink jet applications field • Learn from interactive sessions and informal discussions of technology trends, applications developments and other aspects of ink jet as a manufacturing process • Obtain critical insights into technological, application and market developments critical to your company’s decision making process relative to ink jet and its role in manufacturing In addition the Ink Jet as a Manufacturing Process Symposium is co-located and immediately precedes the Ink Jet Technology Suppliers Showcase 2007, giving delegates the opportunity to conveniently register and attend the successive events. |
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| COURSE OUTLINE | ||
| SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Martin Schoeppler, VP Marketing & Sales, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc. Santa Clara, California, USA Debbie Thorp, VP EMEA Operations, imaging Technology international, Cambridge, UK Tuesday May 29, 2007 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Registration 11:00 a.m. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Al Keene, President, Information Management Institute, Inc., Carrabassett Valley, Maine, USA ELECTRONICS & DISPLAYS INKJET TECHNOLOGY IS ENTERING VERY EXCITING NEW APPLICATIONS AND MARKETS Martin Schoeppler, VP Marketing and Sales, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA • Ink jet markets and applications today • Advantages and status of ink jets in various markets and applications • Expanding market opportunities for ink jets • Requirements for successful product generation • R&D tools and capabilities • Future prospects NEW INKJET FORMULATIONS OF CONDUCTING POLYMER PEDOT/PSS Dr. Andreas Elschner, H.C.Starck GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany • Baytron P Jet HC V2 a high conductive formulation for structured, transparent anodes and electrodes for printed electronics • Baytron P Jet specially designed as hole-injecting layer in inkjet deposited OLEDs • How to avoid nozzle clogging • How to achieve uniform prints with high lateral resolution and good surface wettability • Comparison of ink jetted and spin-coated PEDOT/PSS films INK JET PROCESSING IN PHOTOVOLTAICS Thomas Florian, Manufacturing Engineer, CSG Solar AG, Thalheim, Germany Dr. Michael Doran, Schmid Technology GmbH, Schwetzingen, Germany • Thin film CSG technology • Chain link pattern • Print reactive ink • HF etch & 2nd print process • DOD 800 system – power gain • Pros & cons of ink jet technology for the CSG process 1:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 p.m. ELECTRONICS & DISPLAYS (CONTINUED) INKJET PRINTED REWRITABLE MEMORY Anders Hägerström, Senior Scientist, Process Development, Thin Film Electronics AB, Linköping, Sweden • Introduction to printed electronics • Basic memory technology • Fully inkjet printed memories • Memory performance • Target market areas • Printed memory roadmap INDUSTRIAL INK JET COMPONENTS: WHAT’S OUT THERE? Werner Van de Wynckel, VdW-Consulting bvba, Wolvertem, Belgium • What makes industrial ink jet applications differ from graphical applications • What are the critical aspects of industrial ink jet applications • Crosscheck of industrial ink jet needs with printhead manufacturers • Overview of industrial ink jet peripheral components • Important aspects for specialty inks • Facilitating system components • Lab-scale versus industrial scale applications IMPLEMENTING INDUSTRIAL INKJET SOLUTIONS: FROM INITIAL CONCEPT TO FULL-SCALE PRODUCTION Dr. Alan L Hudd, President & Chief Technical Officer, Xennia Technology Limited, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK • Industrial inkjet for high precision functional materials deposition • Removing barriers to adoption for inkjet as a manufacturing process • Heads, systems and fluids – the key to successful implementation • World of industrial applications including printed electronics and displays THE CHALLENGES FOR RELIABLE INKJET PRINTED ELECTRONICS Steve Jones, Materials Solutions Ltd, Swadlingcote, Derbyshire, UK • Definition of electronic - Combining components to form something that has functionality • Totality of individual steps leads to a functional electronic unit - Requires a complex manufacturing process - Has been 50 years in the making • Producing electronics with an inkjet printing process is more than simply squirting ink through small holes - Non-Newtonian ink and head combinations; - Interfacial interactions with anisotropic substrates - 3D registration - Alignment and compensation - Test vehicles for reliability AEROSOL-PRINTING AS A MASKLESS MESOSCALE MANUFACTURING PROCESS Dr Volker Zöllmer, Fraunhofer IFAM, Bremen, Germany • Overview of state of the art and applications in aerosol printing • Comparison of aerosol printing with ink jet printing • Development of nano-particle containing inks for aerosol printing • Printing onto different substrates and post processing by laser • Pros and cons in comparison to other manufacturing processes, costs INK JET PRINTING INKS - BEYOND GRAPHICS Nigel Caiger, Director Global Digital Technology, SunJet, Bath, UK • Evolution of ink jet printing inks for graphics printing • Emergence of the potential of ink jet printing in manufacturing processes • Ink jet formulation types which can be applied to manufacturing processes • Case studies • Printed Circuit Boards • Photovoltaics • Pre-press Screen masking • Other • Future developments 6:00 p.m. Reception Join us at our open bar - enjoy local beers, wines and tapas! Wednesday May 30, 2007 9:00 a.m. BIO, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, DECORATION & PRODUCTION APPLICATIONS FROM 2D PRINTING TO 3D MANUFACTURING René Houben, TNO Science & Industry, Eindhoven, The Netherlands • Why layer wise production? • From mono to multi material products • Graded structures • Production of bio-degradable implants • Modelling of conductive paths directly inside parts INK JET AS A VERSATILE TOOL IN PUBLICATION PACKAGING AND MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS Jali Heilmann, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Center Of Finland, Espoo, Finland • Differences between digital and analog manufacturing strategies • Benefits of digital and on demand manufacturing technologies • Challenges of ink jet to meet manufacturing application requirements • Emerging applications of digital manufacturing utilising ink jet 3D-PRINTING AS A MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR COMPLEX METAL PARTS Dr.-Ing. Dirk Godlinski, Fraunhofer IFAM, Bremen, Germany • Overview of state of the art and applications in 3D-Printing of tools and metal parts • Developments of 3D-Printing process for different serial materials like stainless and tool steels • Development of 3D-Printing process for functionally graded parts • Pros and cons in comparison to other manufacturing processes, costs RAPID MANUFACTURING – INKJET PRINTING FOR THE 3RD AND 4TH DIMENSIONS Dr Neil Hopkinson, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK • Introduction to rapid prototyping technologies • Rapid prototyping turns into rapid manufacturing • Manufacturing 3D products without tooling • Economics of rapid manufacturing • The high speed sintering process • From one Olympic city to another – visions for 2012 DURABLE AND PERMANENT PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION, AUTHENTICATION AND ANTI THEFT MARKING USING INK JET APPLICATION Dave Cartlidge, Ceram Research, Stoke-on-Trent, UK • Ceram and Direct Writing • The need for the project • Perceived problems of inkjetting pigmented inks • Perceived problems of directly written product ID • Laser sintering • Benefits • The future and other application areas 1:30 p.m. Adjournment |
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