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CAREERS IN 3D PRINTING
In demand:
Talents for Careers in 3D Printing and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
By National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster, featuring
Mr
Goh Wei Jiang (Craft Health Pte Ltd)
Mr
Amit Nanavati (Bralco Advanced Materials Pte Ltd,
Singapore)
Mr Lim Wen Yong (Applications Engineer, SLM
Solutions)
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Dear
Students,
Strong national support is creating new
opportunities for deep-tech MNCs and local startups’ expansion in areas of
Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing.
In this issue’s edition, we explore the interesting
uses of manufacturing technologies, especially 3D printing by MNCs and local
enterprises to spearhead innovative and enterprising ideas in the
manufacturing sectors. Find out how this technology can be used by hobbyists,
creatives, architects, industrial engineers, biologists, and other
professionals in contributing to economic growth.
SPOTLIGHT: AM Talents – Mr Lim Wen
Yong (Mechanical Engineering, NTU Class of 2022)
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Fuelled by passion, enabled by Technology
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Engineering Assistant >>
Project Officer >> Application Engineer
Passionate
about Additive Manufacturing (AM) Technologies, Wen Yong started his
tertiary education in Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Polytechnic. During
his semester project, he was assigned to design a tractable surgical
scalpel. Other interesting projects by Wen Yong includes designing and
developing a smart cane for National Museum Singapore, and a robotic
e-guide dog for Guide Dog Singapore. Both projects were aimed to improve
quality of life for the visually impaired.
Through hard work and perseverance, Wen Yong made it to the Director’s List
in his final year Diploma in Biomedical Engineering and went on to obtain a
Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering at NTU by
juggling work and studies part-time. Over the course of his studies, Wen
Yong started to specialise in design and fabrication of biomedical devices,
and for his final year project at NTU, Wen Yong specialised in polymer AM
applications.
Set out to deepen his practical training in Additive Manufacturing, Wen
Yong took up internships at Becton Dickerson before his full-time roles as
Engineering Assistant at NUH and Project Officer at Nanyang
Polytechnic. While at NYP, Wen Yong had the opportunity to explore
mechanical design and prototypes development in various AM projects.
When
SLM Solutions Singapore was expanding the Applications Engineering Team in
metals printing, Wen Yong took up the opportunity to further develop his
skills and experience in bridging the gaps from FDM polymer process to LPBF
metal process.
Content source and photo courtesy of Mr Lim Wen Yong
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CRAFT HEALTH PTE LTD
Simplifying drug delivery and offering an end-to-end approach
from R&D to manufacturing with 3D Printing
Craft Health is Singapore’s first and only enterprise that utilises 3D Printing technologies for pharmaceuticals and
nutraceuticals. Having developed
the 3D Printing Platform for Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals, Craft Health
envisions to combine the multiple active ingredients or APIs into a single
polypill, each with its own distinct controlled release profile.
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By
developing various platforms of specialised 3D printing techniques, this
simplifies pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals applications. It includes the
reduction of medicine intake frequency, personalised nutrition,
decentralised clinical trials, personalised medicine, and 3D printing for orphan
drugs.
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Craft Health’s proprietary
formulations of 3D printed pharmaceuticals and
nutraceuticals includes CraftTabsTM, CraftBeadsTM, and CraftDelightsTM.
In view of their new plans, Craft
Health has recently upgraded to their new location in Science Park 1 with
latest state of the art 3D printers and laboratory facilities, in particular, a class 100k cleanroom.
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Source:
Craft
Health
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BRALCO ADVANCED MATERIALS PTE LTD,
SINGAPORE
Engineering functional
materials on demand
Bralco Advanced Materials Pte Ltd, Singapore is a regional technology manufacturing enterprise
with a strong focus on design, product development and manufacture of
electromagnetic components using Additive Manufacturing Technologies and
advanced materials.
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Using
a combination of ceramic magnetic particles and polymers, Bralco’s R&D Team developed their own composite filaments
as raw materials to further 3D print customised electromagnetic (EM)
components in a wide variety of shapes and geometry (honey-comb,
spikes, slabs). These components are used as Electromagnetic
Interference (EMI) Absorbers in electronic devices.
EMI
absorbers’ main role is to prevent the electronic devices from emanating
EMI to other devices; protecting them from being affected by other
electronics nearby, particularly when the devices are becoming more
powerful and work at ultra-high frequencies.
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Typically,
the absorbers working range falls in the range 1-40 GHz.
Use
cases include radars, antennas, sensors, 5G telecom equipment, mobile
devices, healthcare diagnostic equipment, etc, serving a wide range of
industries such as space technology, aerospace, defence, medical, consumer
electronics, electric / aviation vehicles (EV/AV) and many more.
In addition to Bralco’s
in-house material development capabilities, Bralco’s
industrial scale production is supported by their own characterisation and
parts testing facilities.
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A 3D printed
EMI absorber – showing the spiked shapes
(Photo
courtesy of Bralco Advanced Materials)
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These innovations brought a revolutionary suite of
benefits to the consumers such as:
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Single point
solution of total RF absorption for high frequency applications
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Lightweight and
high strength carbon fiber composite materials with multifunctional
properties
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Custom design
and short processing time.
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Excellent shape
conformity
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Low cost
In
line with achieving sustainability and carbon net-zero goals, components
produced using Additive Manufacturing process has an overall material
wastage of below 1%, as versus 20% material wastage in a traditional
composite manufacturing process.
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A uniquely designed
Faraday’s cage – an EM shielding concept applied to world of design.
Photo Courtesy: Wired
Source:
Bralco Advanced Materials
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NAMIC’s e-job portal, AM Careers@SG
First set up in 2021, AM Careers@SG
e-job portal is Asia Pacific’s 1st dedicated Additive
Manufacturing e-job platform to address the gaps in talent management and
manpower building for the industry.
The portal regularly reaches out to industry experts
via networking events, recruitment talks, and manpower management events. We hope to address the gaps
and challenges of recruiters and talents in engaging and connecting our
diverse talent pool with the AM industry.
Do
check our new openings at https://namic.sg/namic-jobs/
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