Meet the Challenge of Rapid Innovation in Today’s Automotive Industry
New mobility solutions and ecosystems are redefining the industry and making rapid innovation essential.
Our consultative approach to engineering and additive manufacturing technology can give you the competitive advantage you need to meet this challenge. We will empower you to drive manufacturing productivity, lower costs, and develop new designs that optimize performance and create the unique experiences your customers demand.
Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry
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Underhood / Powertrain
Optimize the performance of propulsion, drivetrain, and surrounding components through rapid iteration while meeting high-temperature and flame-resistant requirements. Our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to produce durable 3D-printed parts quickly, helping you gain a competitive advantage and protect your intellectual property.
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Body Interior Trim / Panels
Optimize your cabin’s physical, functional, and visual experience. Without requiring expensive tooling, our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to create better concept car prototypes. You can make these with realistic texture and surface finishes that can be printed, plated, painted, and wrapped directly. Additionally, you can create innovations such as fastening systems and integrated latching to provide new design methods for manufacturing and service.
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Body Exterior / Panel
Our broad portfolio of durable materials enables you to produce rigid exterior panels for concept car components that don’t deform over large surfaces. This capability allows you to direct air where it’s needed, reduce drag, and ultimately maximize aerodynamic performance while maintaining precise control over Class A exterior style. Sensory mounts can also be added, giving you a unique and innovative way to collect additional analytics.
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Metal Structural Components
Create high-performance structural systems by leveraging an accurate and efficient 3D printing process, allowing you to produce lightweight parts and reduce inertia while increasing overall strength. Further enhance your manufacturing process with access to a wide range of metal alloys, enabling you to leverage efficient and effective post-processing and cleaning.
Boost Electric Vehicle Innovation, Launch Faster, Extend Range with Additive
EV manufacturers are under pressure to accelerate product development cycles, control production costs and create aesthetically pleasing designs. These needs align perfectly with the capabilities of additive manufacturing, as it streamlines every step of the design and manufacturing process, from prototyping to bridge production and spare parts.
Collaborating with You to Enhance Automotive Design and Development
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Solutions that Solve Automotive Challenges
Whether you require high-precision parts at scale or tough thermoplastics that replicate automotive-grade production plastic, our additive manufacturing technology is built to help you design, test, and iterate components quickly and efficiently. Reduce the time it takes to produce high-performance automotive parts from days or weeks to hours.
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Accelerate Automotive Innovation
New powertrain technologies are creating exciting opportunities while producing daunting engineering challenges. With a large variety of advanced materials and additive technologies, the ability to increase testing and iteration, and greater production flexibility, our additive technology makes it easier to develop cutting-edge 3D auto components that deliver performance mobility innovations.
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Leverage our Automotive and Additive Expertise
Our team provides more than just products—we also provide a holistic portfolio of solutions with the experience and expertise to help you solve automotive problems and deliver value efficiently and effectively. We can help you use our additive technology to improve the driving experience and enhance productivity in many ways, such as by reducing component parts, lowering manufacturing variability, decreasing weight, and managing packaging constraints. We are committed to giving you a competitive advantage.
Ultimate Hypercar Uses 3D Printing to Produce Titanium Gearboxes
Performance and quality led every engineering decision on the Rodin FZERO. To optimize for weight and function, Rodin Cars used 3D Systems’ metal additive manufacturing for nearly all metal components, including the eight-speed sequential gearbox – an industry first.
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Application Innovation Group
Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.
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The New World of Thermoplastic Manufacturing
Learn how you can bypass the cost and time of traditional tooling, accelerating innovation and gaining a competitive advantage by 3D printing thermoplastic parts with Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology. -
Enhancing Automotive Design & Development with Clear 3D Printing
More effectively visualize fluid flow in physical systems by having transparent parts produced in hours that can be used to verify and tune Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and analyzing packaging in complex assembly prototypes.
Watch One of Our Automotive Webinars
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Agile Product Development with Clear Rapid Prototypes
The use of clear materials in prototyping has changed the way designers approach designs for lights, headlamps, reflectors and more. Watch this webinar to learn via real world application use cases. -
Drive Product Innovation by Embracing Reverse Engineering
Watch this webinar to learn first hand from an industry expert about when to use reverse engineering and how to deploy your organization’s reverse-engineering competency. -
Metal Additive Manufacturing Lightweight Parts
Learn how to reduce part weight while increasing part functionality from additive manufacturing and automotive experts.