VCE Solutions and The Solutions Group monitor, report,and advise on the following technologies:
Digital 2D Printing
- Digital Electrophotography
- Laser Image Development
- Inkjet
- Thermal Direct
- Thermal Transfer
Digital 3D Printing
- Stereolithography (SLA)
- Micro-Stereolithography (MSL)
- Film Micro-Stereolithography (FMSL)
- Film Transfer Imaging (FTI)
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Selective Laser Melting (SLM) / Laser cladding (LC)
- Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS)
- Selective Area Laser Deposition (SALD)
- Laser Induced Film Transfer (LIFT)
- Photon-Jet Laser Material Transfer (PJLMT)
- Digital Light Processing (DLP)
- Electron Beam Melting (EBM)
- Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication (EBF3)
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) / Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
- Integrated Extrusion Deposition (IED/PED)
- Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM)
- Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)
- Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL)
- Solid Ground Curing (SGC)
- 3D Inkjet (3DIJ), Polyjet Modeling (PJM) & Multijet Modeling (MJM)
- Inkjet Liquid Binding Powder (IJLBP)
- Electrostatic Inkjet
- Aerosol Jet, AIST
- Digitally Controlled Syringe Deposition:
Robo-casting (RC), Fab@home, Foodini - Cold Metal Transfer (CMT)
- Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) (UAM)
- Very High Power Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (VHP UAM)
- Near Field Electro-Spinning (NFES)
For descriptions of 3D Additive Manufacturing: http://www.vcesolutions.com/www/library/PDF20110929_IS&T2011_DIGITAL%20FABRICATION_PRESENTATION.pdf
Analog Printing
- Lithography
- Screen Printing
- Flexography
- Offset Lithography
- Gravure
- Letterpress
Analog Coating
- Slot-die
- Spin
- Spray
- Roll
- Gravure
- Blade
- Curtain
- Vacuum
- Sputter
- Plasma
- Electroplate
