Accelerate sustainability initiatives, differentiate through customization, establish new benchmarks for asset availability, and be more adaptable to new regulations with our additive manufacturing solutions and services
Exceed Customer Expectations and Deliver Products Faster by Staying Ahead of Regulations
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.
Additive Manufacturing Applications in the Truck, Bus & Rail Industry
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Truck, Bus and Rail Industry Team-up with 3D Systems to Achieve Sustainability Goals
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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, and help your customers modernize and optimize existing fleets Reduce development and implementation cycle time with help from our additive manufacturing and transportation industry experts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Watch One of Our Focused Webinars
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Deliver Design Intent Interior Experience Earlier
Learn best practices and find out how additive manufacturing delivers design intent for interior components earlier to accelerate interior vehicle and cabin design and testing to reduce overall costs.
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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.
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Evaluating Materials for Additive Manufacturing Production
Learn how to evaluate AM materials for production with examples from the Figure 4 materials portfolio and discover the qualifications and ASTM and ISO standards testing that matter.