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
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