{"id":1984,"date":"2016-08-05T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/how-3d-printing-is-quietly-revolutionizing-trucking\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:50:05","slug":"how-3d-printing-is-quietly-revolutionizing-trucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/how-3d-printing-is-quietly-revolutionizing-trucking\/","title":{"rendered":"How 3D Printing is (Quietly) Revolutionizing Trucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing is already influencing trucking and transportation in a number of ways, even if trucks yet don\u2019t have the ability \u2013 as some predict they will \u2013 to 3D print products onboard as they are being delivered.<\/p>\n<p>As Fleet Owner explains in this article, <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=20150052024.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20150052024RS=DN\/20150052024\">\u00a0Amazon\u2019s patent <\/a>\u00a0for 3D printing on trucks has been talked about as a potential disruptor of current trucking and supply chain norms, but casting your gaze a bit nearer on the horizon reveals new possibilities and changes right now in areas like truck parts availability\/ inventorying, production costs, and time-to-market.<\/p>\n<p>Fleet Owner takes a glimpse of what\u2019s expected to soon impact the trucking industry:<\/p>\n<p>Replacement truck parts will soon be printed on demand \u2014 and that could be applied to older\/ discontinued models as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the latest developments in 3D printers and trucking came from European shores, and for the time being it hasn&rsquo;t directly crossed over to the North American market yet. Still, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.daimler.com\/marsMediaSite\/en\/instance\/ko\/Mercedes-Benz-Trucks-uses-pioneering-future-technology-3D-pr.xhtml?oid=12788778\">starting in September<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz says 30 spare parts for its Actros series trucks will be 3D printed.<\/p>\n<p>The parts all will be of \u00ab\u00a0consistent manufacturer&rsquo;s quality\u00a0\u00bb and can be made up \u00ab\u00a0at the touch of a button,\u00a0\u00bb the truck maker notes. The ability to make a single, given part on demand is exponentially less expensive than a traditional manufacturing run for that part, for one thing, and once a 3D printer is in place for a specific locality or region, it also eliminates the typical requisite supply and distribution network to make such a part available.<\/p>\n<p>That takes a good deal of cost and time out of the maintenance parts equation, and it could also mean trucks get up and running quicker with less downtime when a trip to the shop is needed. But 3D printing spare parts for trucks also means there&rsquo;s nothing stopping those parts from being produced in the years to come \u2014 essentially indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/fleetowner.com\/technology\/three-ways-3d-printing-quietly-revolutionizing-trucking?NL=FO-01&amp;Issue=FO-01_20160802_FO-01_117&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_1_b&amp;utm_rid=CPENT000003191188&amp;utm_campaign=7064&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=3b0107583f534a0ca0fbfe442790f771\">full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing is already influencing trucking and transportation in a number of ways, even if trucks yet don\u2019t have the ability \u2013 as some predict they will \u2013 to 3D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[695,319,24],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-equipment","tag-3d-printing","tag-manufacturing","tag-supply-chain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}