Eliminate tooling costs and lead-times for consumer wearables, from prototyping for customer validation to mass customization. Deliver end-use product performance and aesthetics with 3D printing materials that offer biocompatibility and advanced mechanical properties.
10x
faster product development
Bio
-compatible capable materials per ISO10993-5 & -10
Up to 8
years tested environmental parts stability

Same-Day Prototypes for Customer Validation

Creating prototypes for testing and end-use validation is critical to ensure the perfect fit of your wearable products, but they can be time consuming and expensive to produce with conventional methods.

Our 3D Printing solutions enable rapid design iteration and evaluation of these complex components, delivering functional prototypes with the look, feel, quality, and mechanical properties of the final product.

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Solving Wearable Components Needs with 3D Printing

  • 3D printed helmet tensioner

  • Rapid Order Fulfillment

    With 3D Systems’ solutions capable of 3D printing prototypes in less than 24 hours, OEMs can optimize their workflow to reduce the time between design iterations, enabling rapid order fulfillment and faster time-to-market. By eliminating the need for tooling, our additive manufacturing solutions reduce the duration of this process from weeks to hours, helping to save costs and improve quality. Further, in-house production guarantees part delivery for a streamlined supply chain. 

  • Tough helmet prototype

  • End-Use Performance

    Accuracy, precision, and mechanical properties are critical factors for end-use components and product validation. Truly functional 3D printed prototypes enable faster real-world product development and validation to take place before costly investments in production tooling. These realistic prototypes can replicate the final production product, in appearance and function, including mechanical characteristics, quality, performance, and optimized ergonomics. 

  • a man wearing a watch and pointing at the features of the watch

  • Best-In-Class Material Properties

    Validating design for wearables requires customer try-ons, therefore biocompatible materials. We offer a range of durable, flexible, and high tear-strength elastomeric materials that are capable of meeting ISO 10993-10 testing requirements for irritation and skin sensitization. Feel confident moving forward with long-term user testing with materials that are UV- and chemical-resistant.

  • Complete VR headset assembly

  • Aesthetic Finishing

    Materials come in a range of colors from opaque blacks and whites to clear, and print with exceptional surface quality, similar to injection molding. 3D textures can also be digitally added to minimize downstream finishing requirements and accurately represent end-use parts. Materials are compatible with plating or painting for premium aesthetics.

  • 3D printed parts on a tray

  • Operational Productivity

    Our end-to-end additive manufacturing solutions are designed to deliver industry-leading quality, reliability, and productivity to keep your operation running efficiently for high-volume production of prototypes, bridge manufacturing, and mass customization. Maximized uptime, reduced labor enabled by downstream compatibility with automation, and minimized waste contribute to a lower cost per part and high manufacturing yield.

  • 3D printed ear plugs with exceptional surface finish for ideal fit and comfort

  • Mass Customization

    Designing and building customized wearable components is part of creating next-generation consumer technology products. Tailoring these to the consumer can be costly with conventional methods. We facilitate mass-customization by giving engineers precise control over each component, to create a unique customer experience, with the capability to scale. 

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3D Printing Solutions that Accelerate Innovation

  • Complete Solutions Portfolio

    Our hardware, software, materials, post-processing, and manufacturing operating system (MOS) solutions offer unprecedented speed, quality, design flexibility, economics, and product reliability. 3D Systems offers the largest suite of additive manufacturing solutions for wearable components, consistently delivering exceptional smooth surface finish, accuracy, and fine detail resolution.

  • Production-Grade Materials

    Our 3D printing materials address the widest variety of applications and performance characteristics in additive manufacturing to offer a range of features that are critical to prototyping and production for consumer technology products. Our broad portfolio of materials for wearable components extends from selective laser sintering production plastics to elastomeric materials and true production-grade photopolymers with long-term stability, biocompatibility, chemical and thermal resistance, and more.

  • Application Development

    Through our Application Innovation Group, we leverage years of consumer technology and additive manufacturing expertise to help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with optimized 3D printing solutions. We provide you with application support, from advanced concept development to bridge production and mass customization.

  • World-Class Service Support

    From installation to hands-on training and consulting support, 3D Systems’ experts enable you to quickly and effectively ramp up your operation. To maximize your uptime and keep your fleet running efficiently, our world-class service organization is equipped to meet your business needs with on-call experts, field engineering services, preventive maintenance programs, and optimized equipment for high serviceability.

Learn More About our Solutions for Wearable Components

a vent made from DuraForm PAx Natural material

DuraForm PAx Natural (SLS)

High impact, high elongation nylon copolymer

Figure 4 Rubber Black material

Figure 4 RUBBER-65A BLK

Mid tear strength production-grade rubber

A 3D printed bracket made from Accura AMX Durable Natural

Accura AMX Durable Natural

Production-grade 3D print resin featuring long-term environmental stability

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Figure 4 Tough 65C Black

3D print black plastic for long-term use parts with a good combination of impact strength, elongation, and tensile strength.

a 3D printed ducttm made from Accura AMX Rigid Black

Accura AMX Rigid Black

Production-grade SLA 3D print resin featuring long-term environmental stability

Figure 4 PRO-BLK 10

Figure 4 PRO-BLK 10

Production-grade, rigid 3D print material for production parts

Figure 4 Rigid White

Figure 4 Rigid White

Opaque rigid white 3D print production-grade plastic

figure 4 tough 60c white hands on throttle-and-stick assembly

Figure 4 Tough 60C White

White 3D print plastic for long-term use parts with a good combination of impact strength, elongation, and tensile strength

3D Systems SLA Accura Clearview Headlamp

Accura ClearVue (SLA)

High clarity 3D print plastic, multitude of applications

3D Systems DuraForm PA Engine

DuraForm PA

Durable polyamide (nylon) material for 3D printed production parts

A manifold adaptor made from Figure 4 RUBBER-BLK 10

Figure 4 RUBBER-BLK 10

Durable, hard rubber-like material

3D Systems ProJet 7000 HD 3D Printer (SLA) 3D prototyping printer

ProJet 7000 HD

Mid-range integrated solution for SLA quality and accuracy

3D Systems Figure 4 high throughput plastic production system

Figure 4

Making 3D Production Real with Scalable, Modular Factory Solutions

3D Systems ProX 950 3D Printer (SLA) large-format 3D printing

ProX 950

All the benefits of SLA 3D printing in extra-large format

SLS 380 3D printer

SLS 380

Industrial-scale, process controlled additive manufacturing solution for selective laser sintering

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