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Kuldeep has over 16 years of global experience in various industries such as IT, automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and more. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies in roles involving consulting, project management, and training. Kuldeep has mentored over 1,000 project managers and is a skilled speaker. He holds a Bachelor's degree in engineering and is a PMP-certified professional. Kuldeep also holds two patents related to medical device innovations.
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- 2. Kuldeep has 16+ years of global experience in industries IT, Automotive, Government, Healthcare, Education & Training, Transportation, Aerospace, IT etc. Kuldeep has consulted to Fortune100 companies like GE, Medtronic, Johnson and Johnson, Philips HC, Pfizer, Siemens, Ford, Boeing and Maruti etc. He has worked in Chicago & Minneapolis, USA for 5 years and business travelled to Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Dubai and Japan. Kuldeep has mentored, trained 1000+ Project Managers so far and is a speaker with great orator skills. He has successfully completed $XXM projects in multicultural and multi country environment. He is Bachelor of Engineering, Production and Industrial from MNNIT, Allahabad and PMP® Certified professional from Project Management Institute, USA since 2008 He has two USA and Europe patents awarded for his innovation: 1. SPINAL ROD CONNECTOR - EP1884212A1 & US D643925 S1 2. UHF RFID Tag for Medical Systems - US20130306740 A1 He has published 50+ White papers, articles, conference papers globally including Quid pro quo healthcare – Financial Express, UHF RFID re – Tata Management Training Center
- 4. BY CHRISTINA COUCH THE 3-D PRINTING REVOLUTION IS PUSHING PROJECT MANAGERS INTO CREATIVE NEW DIMENSIONS. The “Office of the Future,” the first 3-D-printed building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 5. 64 WWW.PMI.ORG an expensive high-tech curiosity to a faster and cheaper way of doing business in varied industries around the world. Predicted by ARK Invest to be a US$41 billion global market 3-D PRINTING IS PREDICTED TO BE A US$41 BILLION GLOBAL MARKET BY 2020. SOURCE: ARK Invest PM NETWORK NOVEMBER 2016 by 2020—a figure that’s nearly double what was predicted by Wohlers Associates two years ago for 2020—3-D printing is helping organizations unlock innovation while cutting production costs and time to market. The technology is used by Nike to custom-tailor shoes for individual athletes, by Volvo to make tools for building truck engines and by research institutions to create organs and tissues for patients. As 3-D printing (sometimes known as additive manufacturing) becomes a mainstay at organizations, project managers must adapt to extended design phases full of rapid prototyping and new creative possibilities. But they’re also learning limitations—of both the printers and materials their teams aim to manipulate. A THOUSAND ITERATIONS For project managers, 3-D printing means trial and error won’t break the bank. Tim Gilchrist, PMP, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, has an office overflowing with bags of failed prototypes. Mr. Gilchrist, a fellow at Columbia University’s Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab in New York, New York, USA, is working with a surgeon in India to build 3-D-printed stabilizing devices for people is rapidly building the future. In the past decade, it’s evolved from PRINTING
- 6. who have suffered spinal injuries. The market is small: Every year only a few thousand people get the type of spinal injuries that would require this
- 7. 66 WWW.PMI.ORG device—and each unit is custom-tailored to the patient’s specific injury. The project would be impossible for Mr. Gilchrist if he were limited to tra ditional manufacturing methods. But 3-D printing makes prototyping cheap, giving designers more freedom to experiment and opening new opportunities to create custom products for niche markets. iterations trigger improvements and ideas for newFrequent products. Mr. Gilchrist says the hundreds of prototypes he created have led to significant product improvements his team might not have discovered otherwise. “There are so many times when you say, ‘Ah, that fea ture I really liked on iteration number 1,000, I want to bring it back in the final product,’” he says. “Doing that in traditional manufacturing would be very, very expensive and very slow.” For some projects, 3-D printing allows design to start immediately. Mr. Gilchrist says design - ing began in the very first conversation he had Becausecollaborator.his isprojectwith the his team will have to worryneverself-funded, about investors wanting to influence production or distribution plans further down the line. “If conversationsfirstourago,yearsfivewereit producttheaboutbeenhavewouldn’t features and benefits. They would have been about raising US$10,000 to make the first prototypes and pulling favors with an injection mold shop to get it done,” he says. “The vendor we hired had scheduled two days, but they were done in two hours. It was quite nice.” —Hedwig Heinsman, DUS Architects, Amsterdam, the Netherlands The printed facade of a building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands was inspired by ship sails.
- 8. BIO-BUILDING BENEFITS No technology is risk-free, of course. Organizations looking to embrace additive manufacturing projects can encounter significant challenges, often stemming from the fact that 3-D printing still remains a relatively young and fast-changing technology. That means project managers might have to write their own rules or invest in custom solutions to conquer 3-D printing obstacles. Hedwig Heinsman, co-founder, DUS Architects, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, knew from the moment she learned about it that 3-D printing would make huge waves in her field. So she spent several years researching industrialgrade 3-D printers and printable materials that could be used to create architectural elements. When she couldn’t find exactly what she needed, in 2011 Ms. Heinsman directed her team to develop its own printer as well as a linseed oil-based bioplastic material it could use to make both interior and exterior elements. The potential implications for her organization’s projects were massive. “We had to develop new assembly techniques,” Ms. Heinsman says. “There were a lot of elements of the entire construction pipeline we had to re-evaluate.” The extra time and money invested in the R&D project paid off. In March 2012, DUS Architects unveiled KamerMaker—Dutch for “room builder”—a nearly 20- foot (6-meter)-tall 3-D printer that can generate custom structures ranging from window frames to staircases to rooms as large as 2 by 2 meters (6.6 by 6.6 feet) wide and 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) high. KamerMaker melts and layers up to 240 millimeters (9.4 inches) of material per second—that’s roughly the length of a standard-size water bottle. The machine emits about half of the carbon dioxide released through traditional construction practices and without any of the leftover waste materials. “If it were five years ago, our first conversations wouldn’t have been about the product features and benefits. They would have been about raising US$10,000 to make the first prototypes.” —Tim Gilchrist, PMP, Columbia University Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- 9. 68 WWW.PMI.ORG PM NETWORK NOVEMBER 2016 Those efficiencies were highlighted in a recent high-profile project. When the Netherlands was selected for a 2016 residency by the presidency of the Council of the European Union, DUS Architects was asked to print a custom facade to make a building in Amsterdam’s marine district appear to be covered in ship sails. Ms. Heinsman says the entire facade was designed, manufactured and installed in three months. The process would have taken at least twice as long with traditional methods, requiring a chain of construction suppliers and significantly higher labor costs. “The construction vendor we hired had scheduled two days to assemble the elements, but they were done in two hours,” she says. “It was quite nice.” 3- D printed.” —Kuldeep Tyagi, PMP, Cyient, New Delhi, India And the benefit of the project can flow into another. After the temporary residency ended on 1 July, the facade was removed and DUS Architects shredded and then reused the material in another 3- D printing project. LEARN TO CHANGE The KamerMaker facade project underscores how 3-D printing can enable project managers to radically simplify, or even eliminate, entire supply chains. And because 3-D printers democratize manufacturing, Mr. Gilchrist expects some companies to pivot their business models, opting to sell design files that end users can print on their own rather than selling physical products. That’s a lot of potential change on the horizon. To be ready for it, project managers in affected industries will need to update their skills, including developing knowledge of the software that drives 3- D printing projects. As products become easier to replicate, they’ll also need to be ready to work with legal teams and other internal stakeholders to create protocols for protecting printed designs, patents and other intellectual property, Mr. Gilchrist says. Then there are the actual materials. The success of 3-D printing projects depends in part on project managers understanding how printed materials and products differ from conventional manufacturing, says Kuldeep Tyagi, PMP, head of medical technology unit, Cyient, New Delhi, India. Continual education is a must for project managers. “You need to put those risks upfront and express clear expectations to your customer. Everything can’t be At right and below, DUS Architects’ KamerMaker 3-D printer
- 10. During an 18-month project to build a healthcare device patients can use to take their vital signs at home, Mr. Tyagi’s team was able to reduce manufacturing time from four months to 10 days, thanks to 3-D printing. But doing that takes more than pressing a button. His team researched how the properties of the printed metal they used (including its strength, heat resistance and flexibility) stacked up to comparable metals used in conventional manufacturing. NOVEMBER 2016 PM NETWORK 65
- 11. 70 WWW.PMI.ORG PM NETWORK NOVEMBER 2016 THEY 3-D-PRINTEDWH ▲ A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE? Late last year, Dutch technology fi rm MX3D set up mu Amsterdam workspace. The automatons slowly began together steel to make the world’s fi rst 3-D-printed br for completion in 2017, the bridge will one day span th Achterburgwal canal. From offi ces to cars, 3-D printers are redefi ning the landscape of construction a ▼ A SMALLER CLAIM TO FAME Dubai, United Arab Emirates is known for its large buildings. Covering just 250 square meters (2,691 square feet), the “Offi ce of the Future” is on the smaller side. Its bragging right? It was printed and constructed in less than three weeks, with less than half the labor cost of conventional buildings of similar size. The Strati electric car proves that addi tive manufacturing is on the move. The D-printed vehicle was developed by a3- team at U.S. company Local Motors and is made of fewer than 50 separate parts; a conventionally built car has about ,000.30 ▼ PRINTOUTS FOR THE OPEN ROAD
- 12. Th ings can get complicated—and quickly. Mr. Tyagi says that project managers working in the 3- D printing space need to learn how each individual material functions under a variety of chemical and physical stresses, as well as how various materials react in tandem. Th is can be especially time- consuming and expensive to research for projects blending traditional and additive manufacturing processes, involving multiple printed materials or seeking government approval to ensure a prosthetic or implant safely interacts with the human body. Project leads also need to be cognizant of specifi c 3-D printers’ performance capabilities, he says. Th ey have size, color, resolution and design limitations, all of which need to be considered when mapping out project timelines. “You need to put those risks upfront and express clear expectations to your customer,” Mr. Tyagi says. “Everything can’t be 3-D printed.” NEXT DIMENSION Th e greatest risk facing any 3-D printing project team—at least those at organizations without a printer—is probably inconsistent availability of a machine. Sofi a Ridwan discovered that fi rsthand when she co-founded Colebrook Bioscience in Melbourne, Australia earlier this year. Th e company specializes in producing custom-made scientifi c equipment, such as a lightweight cell separator. Ms. Ridwan knew that 3-D printing technology would allow the Colebrook team to tap into an underserved market niche by experimenting with new designs competitors hadn’t tried. She identifi ed domestic suppliers who could provide 3- D printing services before launching the business, but encountered delays while executing projects. “Within Australia, there is still a limited number of suppliers able to consistently provide 3-D printing services to companies like us,” she says. Th at might change soon. As the costs of 3-D printers come down, it’s becoming more possible for companies as small as Colebrook—which has two employees—to execute projects completely in- house. As industrial-level 3-D printers become ubiquitous, Ms. Heinsman is eager to see what kinds of innovation are enabled by the growing accessibility of 3-D printing. “I really think this is just the beginning. We have to see where it takes us.” PM back in the fi nal product.’” —Tim Gilchrist, PMP 1 “There are so many times when you say, ‘Ah, that feature I really liked on iteration number 1,000, I want to bring it
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