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Furthermore, with its placing on the Hype Cycle, Gartner predicts that Consumer 3D Printing is 5–10 years away from wider adoption phase.
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In previous blog articles at Prototype Projects, we have consistently drawn the distinction between consumer and industrial 3D printing – the former attracting much media attention and hype, but with little evidence of either affordable price points or satisfactory levels of quality and complexity.Īccordingly, Consumer 3D Printing sits between the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and the “Trough of Disillusionment”, as reality continues to dawn on the costs and capabilities. Of interest to Prototype Projects clients will be the fact that 3D Printing for prototyping is the furthest advanced of all these processes, having just entered the “Plateau of Productivity” phase commonly accepted as mainstream. It positions each one along the hype curve according in one of the 5 stages according to its current and predicted acceptance or adoption into mainstream industrial processes, education and consumer life. The 3D Printing Hype Cycle Report highlights over 20 separate technology applications or ‘uses’ of 3D printing. *(words in brackets are Prototype Projects’ own definitions)
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Trough of disillusionment (interest in the technology starts to fall away as reality dawns).Peak of inflated expectations (lots of hype and early interest, possibly sales).Technology Trigger (emerging, early days).In the report, Gartner shows that 3D printing has expanded much faster than expected and so for the first time it has produced a version of the Hype Cycle just for 3D Printing.įor those that haven’t come across it before, the Hype Cycle is essentially a curve which charts the evolution of emerging technologies from emergence to mainstream through five stages it calls: In July 2015, Gartner published its annual “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies”.