Sports
Industrial 3D Printing of Sports Articles
With additive manufacturing product innovations are becoming faster, and customization is becoming more efficient and economically viable. To remain competitive, the sports equipment industry is increasingly turning away from classically mass-produced items. With new ideas for product improvements, businesses are approaching their goal of optimizing athletes and their equipment as an integrated system.
By taking advantage of innovative production technologies such as additive manufacturing, these ideas can be made into product innovations. For example, additve manufactruing can be used to make hard-wearing and lightweight variants of complex sports equipment that would not be possible with conventional production technologies.
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Bauer
Ice hockey helmet liners are an optimal example of a historically traditional product – evolving for more than 50 years, but until now, with minimal overall design changes. With new 3D printing technologies opening up product development doors and allowing for design limitations to be stripped away, the MyBauer REAKT hockey helmet with a Digital Foam insert was able to provide a new way of producing a more customized and individually tailored helmet product.
Wilson
Another product that has stood the test of time with minimal changes is the basketball. With known performance and relatively low production costs, the basketball is easily overlooked for design updates. The Wilson Innovation Center is constantly seeking ways to revolutionize the sports equipment we use and enjoy every day, which is why they turned to EOS and Digital Foam for the Airless Prototype. By leveraging Digital Foam and our network of partners, Wilson was able to successfully produce an Airless Prototype, nearly equal in performance to a traditional basketball, with customized Digital Foam material, a digitally optimized lattice structure, and industrial 3D printing solutions such as the EOS P 396.
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