HP Innovation Journal Issue 14: Spring 2020 | Page 19

A 3D-printed hand splint, above. Digital manufacturing engineer Vishnu Rajeev Nair readies newly printed HP Multi Jet Fusion parts for cooling and retrieval, top right. Removing excess powder from 3D-printed parts using the bead blaster, middle. Adrian Ong, a digital manufacturing engineer, and PhD student Joyce Lim Xin Yan in the researchers’ office, bottom right. noting that the manufacturing solutions HP is working on are aimed at affordable, scalable, and customizable means of production in areas like dental, footwear, eyewear, and automotive and industrial parts. Jianmin Zheng, associate professor at the School of Computer Engineering and co-director of the Institute for Media Innovation at NTU, is working on a few different proposals for HP based on geometric processing for 3D-part design, elastic-material design, and geometry control of lattice structures for 3D printing. “The lab provides an excellent base for NTU professors, researchers, and students to conduct cutting-edge technologies in close collaboration with HP researchers,” he says. “This also provides a great opportunity to train manpower in this field in Singapore and beyond.” Photos by Scott Woodward 17