Gain a competitive edge in sustainability, customization, adaptability and asset readiness with our additive manufacturing solutions and services

3x
Faster product development
90%
Reduction in material inventory by printing on demand
25%
Reduction in asset down time

Stay Ahead of Regulations with Greater Flexibility and Speed

In order to grow and differentiate from the competition, commercial and public transportation companies are pushing for lower costs, enhanced performance, and flexible product platforms that can quickly adapt to new technologies and customer requirements. 

Our extensive portfolio of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and software can give you the competitive advantage you need to meet these challenges. Through our understanding of the application needs for the railway, truck, and bus industries, we will empower your innovation.

Truck, Bus & Rail Additive Manufacturing Applications

Brake Systems & Pneumatic Controls

Brake Systems & Pneumatic Controls

Optimize compressed air system performance, quality, and reliability by reducing component weight and part count and integrating multiple functions into a single part. 3D Systems offers a breadth of additive manufacturing technologies and materials that can help you enhance your product development and manufacturing process with quick iteration and production of innovative brake systems and pneumatic controls.

Power Electronics Enhancement

Power Electronics Enhancement

Unlock new efficiency in energy transmission and increase the durability of insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGTBs) and inverters with more effective heat sink systems enabled by conformal cooling channels. As a bonus, this unique AM capability can also solve a wide range of packaging challenges. 3D Systems’ applications engineers have extensive experience across a wide range of industries to help you design innovative heat exchangers and heat sinks with the best material and process for your transportation applications.

Interior & Passenger Comfort

Interior & Passenger Comfort

Differentiate your vehicle interiors to optimize comfort, functionality and riding experience for both passengers and operators with faster innovation, iteration, and validation on production parts without tooling investments. With our innovative polymer materials and advanced software applications, you can 3D print prototypes with realistic textures and surfaces as well as final production parts that meet the latest transportation industry regulations.

Molds & Patterns for Sand Metal Casting

Molds & Patterns for Sand Metal Casting

Accelerate production delivery, optimize parts, and reduce manufacturing costs by creating reusable patterns and cores for the traditional sand-casting production process. Our advanced software applications and large selection of composite SLA materials will help you to quickly and easily optimize designs and produce patterns and cores with excellent wear resistance and superior surface finish for the final part.

Manufacturing Aids and Production Tooling

Manufacturing Aids and Production Tooling

Bringing new high-quality products to market fast is critical across industries. Productive assembly aids, cost-effective manufacturing tools and precise gauges help the transportation industry meet and exceed customer expectations.

Use our additive manufacturing solutions to reduce cycle time from design to production, implementing fast and accurate manufacturing aids and production tools to optimize your process, increase productivity and improve overall operations

Body Exteriors and Panels

Body Exteriors and Panels

Designing and optimizing body exteriors for your transportation asset often requires multiple iterations to maximize performance while maintaining your product’s visual brand identity. The inability of conventional processes to meet your schedule often results in a compromised solution.

With 3D Systems’ portfolio of hardware, materials and software, you can accelerate product development without compromising your designs. Produce large-size panels and exterior components with our broad range of large-format 3D printers, including FDM, SLA and SLS technologies and production-grade materials.

Electrical Harnesses & Conduits

Electrical Harnesses & Conduits

Accelerate design and validation for electrical wiring and harnesses, optimize cable routings and reduce installation labor with 3D printed connectors, complex cable retainers and custom conduit fittings.

Our production-grade materials and additive manufacturing solutions save you time and money by reducing part count and expensive injection molding tooling and delivering parts on-demand and on site for your vehicle’s electrical wiring harnesses and cables.

Industrial Seals and Gaskets

Industrial Seals and Gaskets

Improve the quality and reliability of your products by preventing failures from external contamination. Quickly validate designs for special seals and gaskets to protect critical systems and vehicle components from extreme environments and go to production without tooling. 

With 3D Systems’ solutions and the expertise of our application innovation group you can leverage the design freedom of AM to customize the characteristics and properties of your seals in a single piece.

Achieve Sustainability Goals with 3D Systems

  • Leverage Innovative Solutions to Reach Net Zero Emissions

    Accelerate new technologies to improve commercial vehicle efficiency and meet your environmental sustainability objectives with innovative drive train systems. Help your customers modernize and optimize existing fleets. Reduce development and implementation cycle time with help from our additive manufacturing and transportation industry experts.

  • Gain Supply Chain Control with Production Ready Technology

    3D Systems can support your vertical integration strategies with our wide variety of additive manufacturing technologies, production-grade materials, manufacturing operating system software, and expertise in commercial and public transportation applications. Keep your assembly lines running with bridge production solutions and optimized tooling, and support your customers with on-demand spare, or hard-to-find parts.

  • Achieve Sustainable Business Growth

    Stay ahead of the competition with agile responses to changing regulations and grow your business by quickly addressing customer needs with help from our additive manufacturing solutions and leading expertise. We can help you find competitive solutions for product customization to increase your presence in niche markets and implement flexible and scalable manufacturing processes to accelerate product delivery.

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.

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    Optimize Flexible Component Retention Earlier

    Space in the vehicle is constrained, but critical components like electrical wiring, hoses, and tubes need to be routed in restricted space. Find out how you can satisfy the increasing requirements of new propulsion systems and vehicle architectures with optimized retention components.

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    Optimize Fluid Dynamics

    Metal 3D printing enables unprecedented improvements in fluid dynamic applications for power electronic systems for truck, bus, and rail to improve system efficiency, optimize space utilization and reduce part weight.​

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