Supporting Your Business Growth and Profitability with Industry Expertise
To gain a competitive advantage, we understand your need to differentiate your digital manufacturing services business and to become increasingly responsive to customer requirements, from prototype to production. We also understand the critical importance to improve your operation’s productivity and profitability, from streamlined manufacturing workflows to higher degrees of automation.
3D Systems has three decades of expertise in application development across all major industry verticals and manufacturing processes to address your customers’ challenges. We have developed the broadest range of integrated additive manufacturing (AM) solutions that maximize your productivity, reliability, uptime, and yield – delivering your customers high quality parts while realizing exceptional total cost of ownership (TCO).
Choose 3D Systems’ Expertise and Technologies to Gain a Competitive Advantage
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Maximized productivity with full SLA build plate.
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Productivity & Operational Efficiency
Our additive manufacturing solutions include software, printer, materials, and post-processing designed to deliver industry-leading quality, reliability, and productivity to keep your operation running efficiently. Reduced labor enabled by downstream compatibility with automation, and minimized waste with high material efficiency contribute to reduced cost per part.
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Engineers collaborating on 3DXpert® software.
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Industry Expertise
3D Systems Application Innovation Group (AIG) team has expertise in application development across all major industry verticals, including highly regulated environments such as healthcare, aerospace, and high-tech. We can provide you with application support, unique industry insights, and assist in the certification process to ensure traceability and transparency. Discover the solutions we have developed for aerospace, automotive, motorsports, jewelry, healthcare, turbomachinery, and semiconductor.
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SLS build, 198 parts automatically positioned and nested using 3D Sprint®.
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Scale your Manufacturing Capabilities
We are experts in manufacturing and we will work with you to scale your additive manufacturing capabilities from prototyping to streaming production. We prove out the solution with you, with support maximizing your manufacturing process efficiency around the most challenging applications. We also offer you greater flexibility by increasing your supply chain capacity with our Customer Innovation Centers.
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Solution Partnership
Accelerate new market opportunities by leveraging our broad portfolio of 6 additive manufacturing technologies, cutting-edge software for end-to-end digital manufacturing workflow, and 130+ high-performance materials - the widest array available to meet every customer challenge. As industry demands evolve, we continuously innovate to address new customer needs and enable you to offer state-of-the-art manufacturing services.
The Role of 3D Printing for Service Bureaus
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Functional Prototyping
3D printed functional prototypes enable faster real-world product development and testing to take place before costly investments in production tooling. These realistic prototypes can replicate the end production product, including appearance, function, as well as mechanical characteristics and properties. Manufacturing processes can be explored using functional prototypes to determine part weight, assembly process, and overall manufacturability.
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Direct Digital Production of End-Use Parts
Production-grade materials and additive manufacturing technologies provide direct production options for custom products, low volume and bridge manufacturing. Save on tooling costs by 3D printing directly from a 3D file, and take advantage of fast turnaround production parts delivery. Produce plastic and metal parts with 3D printing that are simply not possible with standard manufacturing, including topology optimized parts, consolidated assemblies, highly complex anatomical shapes, internal channels, complex surface textures, and internal lattices.
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Investment Casting
Overcome the geometry and time constraints common with conventional machined molds for wax patterns injection, replacing it with a fast, tool-less process that opens the door to greater design freedom while improving product performance. Digital processes and additive manufacturing technologies are poised to deliver massive time and cost savings. 3D Systems calls this revolutionary set of technologies transforming the investment casting market the Digital Foundry.
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Indirect Manufacturing & Tooling
3D Systems technologies can streamline your manufacturing workflows by delivering the design flexibility, quality, accuracy, and materials performance needed for critical applications, such as composite tooling, forming tools, molds, master patterns, and manufacturing aids (jigs and fixtures).
Additive Manufacturing Solutions that Defy Limitations
Our cutting-edge additive manufacturing solutions deliver our customers unprecedented quality, design flexibility, economics, and product reliability. Whatever your specific customer needs, we have a bundled solution to offer.
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Additive Manufacturing, From Prototype to Production
3D Systems offers the largest suite of additive manufacturing technologies for plastic and metal, including stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), Figure 4, MultiJet Printing (MJP), ColorJet Printing (CJP), and direct metal printing (DMP).
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Production-Grade Materials for All Your Application Needs
Our 3D printing materials address the widest range of applications and performance characteristics in additive manufacturing, with an extensive portfolio that extends across metals, composites, wax, and true production-grade photopolymers with long-term stability.
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Software that Deliver Results
For your digital end-to-end manufacturing workflow, software is the key to transforming data from 3D scans, illuminating designs, and inspecting part quality, and is used every day to enable manufacturing for traditional and 3D-based manufacturing processes. For increased efficiency, the same 3D printing software can be used across several technologies.
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Application Development
Are you specializing in a specific industry, such as aerospace or automotive? Are you specializing in critical processes, such as investment casting? Our Application Innovation Group (AIG) has decades of additive manufacturing expertise in your target markets, including highly regulated industries, developing optimized solutions for the most complicated applications. Let us partner with you to design and produce parts that consistently meet your customers’ expectations.
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3D Systems’ World-Class Services
From installation to hands-on training and consulting support, 3D Systems’ experts enable you to quickly and effectively ramp from prototyping to volume production. To maximize your uptime and keep your fleet running efficiently, we have a world-class service organization to meet the needs of your business, with on-call experts, field engineering services, preventive maintenance programs, and optimized equipment for high serviceability.
Customer Stories
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B&J Specialty Increases Production Rate by 30% with Metal 3D-Printed Conformally-Cooled Injection Mold
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Resources
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Materials Guide
Discover a wide array of advanced plastic, composite and wax materials that address the most demanding prototyping and production applications.
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The Digital Foundry eBook
3D printing technology and material advancements in 3D Systems’ plastic additive manufacturing that extend the addressable range of production applications.
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Rapidly Adopt and Scale Metal Additive Manufacturing eBook
How 3D Systems’ technology transfer & consulting services benefit manufacturers and suppliers.
Want to Discuss Our Solutions for Manufacturing Services?
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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.