3D-printing : För effektivisering av produkter

Sammanfattning: In this report, my work on 3D-printing will be presented. This project is what constitutes my examination project in the education of industrial design engineering.   3D-printers are tools that have undergone great development in recent years. Through this development, the machines have become increasingly accessible to private individuals thanks to reduced prices, easyer use and higher quality. Through an increased use of the tool on a more private level, new opportunities are created for how we manufacture products, as well as how our attitude to its components are viewed.   The purpose of the work was to investigate how 3D-printing can be used to create more efficient and sustainable products with a focus on users, manufacturers and the environment. The goal was to develop an approach to utilize the function of a 3D-printer in a way that contributes to higher sustainability and efficiency, where the end result should contribute to this without forcing the user to make any decisive sacrifices.   The work has been carried out with a three-part process, divided into the phases Inspiration, Ideation and implementation, which together constitute an iterative design process. Initially in the inspiration phase, inspiration was created for the work with the help of a literature study, theory collection and a context analysis. Then began the ideation phase, whose purpose was to start creating ideas and conceptualize the inspiration that has previously been collected in the inspiration phase. To implement these ideas and concepts, the implementation phase was carried out to achieve a more completed and implemented concept.   The work resulted in the concept TonePrint. TonePrint is a speaker and a pair of headphones that work together in a form of ecosystem to make the interaction smoother for the user when changing audio source. The product TonePrint is a product that the user 3D-prints by oneself. This contributes to a more efficient and sustainable product as well as production. The product is designed in a way that enables the user to configure the product based on their own needs, which contributes to increased personalization. It allows the user to reuse components from previous devices that would otherwise be discarded, or select components based on their own liking and taste.