3D Printing Case Studies

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Albensi Laboratories

By adopting the Objet 3D Printing solution, Albensi Laboratories was able to realize a complete digital workflow for in-house fabrication of models, abutments, coping/crowns and bridges of any size or combination.

Bluesky

In 2006, BlueSky purchased a Dimension 3D Printer to more easily and cost-effectively develop and test concepts.

Allure

By teaming up 3Shape’s Dental System and Objet’s Eden 260V 3D Printing System, Allure Dental Studio was able to realize a complete digital workflow for in-house fabrication of models, abutments, coping/crowns and bridges of any size or combination.

AMP Research

AMP Research’s engineers were able to easily and quickly produce physical models of the fuel door out of durable ABS plastic throughout the design process for testing and evaluation.

Benilde-St. Margarets

"With the Dimension 3D printer, students are better able to experiment with their design concepts and test their engineering visions, truly understanding why a part worked or why it didn't. The printer has really changed the whole learning dynamic for my students."

Altimate Medical

After integrating the easy-to-use BST into their design process, the Altimate team realized an immediate return on its investment through its ability to quickly make models in-house at a substantially reduced cost, improving their design process and saving time and money.

CTI Renato Archer

CTI Renato Archer helped create cranial prostheses for a 12-year-old accident victim. The center designed a skull to adjust to the child’s growth, year after year.

Dante Pazzanese

The Dante Pazzanese Cardiology Institute uses 3D printing to help diagnose and treat cardiac disease, including developing heart pumps, assessing surgery risks and practicing surgery procedures before operations.

DeRisi Lab

DeRisi hopes 3D printers will one day be as accessible as document printers. To help others get started making their own equipment, DeRisi Lab maintains 3D Printables, a library of .stl files including a magnetic cell purification jig, a tip loader and several gel combs.

NordicNeuroLab

NordicNeuroLab develops medical products specializing in MRI technology to measure brain activity. The company achieves its thorough pre-production testing to ensure ultimate accuracy using an Objet Eden 3D Printer, while also reducing production costs and time to market.

Oxysure

Since the introduction of the Dimension system into OxySure's design process, Steve Dunford, senior engineer, estimates that the cost per part produced, including overhead, is at least 50 percent less than it was when the company relied on the service bureau.

Southpaws Specialty Surgery for Animals

Southpaws Specialty Surgery for Animals specializes in cancer care and multiple surgery procedures for dogs and cats. The hospital now uses 3D printing for surgical guides to pinpoint accuracy, improve pre-surgery communication and provide advanced training.

The MetroHealth System

Models produced on the Eden500V are durable, with exceptionally fine details and an outstanding surface finish – all necessary for ensuring the high degree of accuracy required by the MetroHealth surgical team.

Casa di Cura Villa Sant’Apollonia

In addition to safer surgical procedures, using the Dimension 3D models has also helped the team reduce the amount of time patients are under anaesthetic. For example, by performing a ‘dry run’ using a model of a patient’s actual jaw, the team has found that surgery time is between 10 – 15% shorter than it was prior to using Dimension models.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University incorporated 3D printing to its surgical tools, shortening operative time, increasing precision and helping with the customized nature of the eye surgeries.

Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine added a multi-material 3D printer for education and training purposes. Medical trainees can practice stitching organs, see how organs interconnect and plan upcoming surgeries.

Medtronic

“The financial advantages of including FDM technology in the prototype lab are evident to McDonald. “Now we can refine our designs more before we start cutting metal, which is where the dollars start going up exponentially.

Orchid Design

Orchid Design, a division of Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, helps bring orthopedic innovations to life. Its staff of designers and engineers work with medical professionals to design, prototype and test new orthopedic solutions.

APEX Dental Milling Center

APEX Dental Milling Center was impressed with the ease and speed of the Objet Eden260V 3D Printing System. Staff quickly learned how to use the system and initiate efficient production and the company soon discovered that the Objet 3D Printer radically speeded up its normal manufacturing workflows.

University of Texas-Dallas

Rennaker needed to produce parts strong enough for lab testing, durable enough to assemble and absorb load impacts, and detailed enough to develop brain-machine interfaces to study how the brain responds to different stimuli.

Acist Medical Systems

Acist Medical Systems continues to explore how FDM can help it improve creativity and efficiency, and lower costs throughout all manufacturing aspects.

Arch Day Design

The ability to produce highly accurate prototypes quickly enhances device manufacturers’ competitiveness. Shaving a few days or weeks off the design process can often mean the difference between being first or being second to market.

Biorep

It took just six months to move Biorep’s Silicone Membrane Petri Dish from the drawing board to its current status: field testing in a number of labs. “Six months is an incredibly short time to get a medical device into field testing,” says Echeverri. “Our ability to produce rapid prototypes inhouse cut the development time in half.”

Diversified Plastics

Diversified Plastics created a 3D printed mold that was used to injection mold a new product prototype from final production material for their customer, Coloplast. As a result, they were able to save 4 weeks of production lead time and $11,500 in cost as compared to their previous use of metal molds— a savings of 80% and 88% respectively.

Instrumentation Laboratory

The company discovered that FDM prototypes help engineers move more quickly to an optimized design, and allow for incorporation of greater contributions from the manufacturing team and suppliers.

Ivivi Technologies

The integration of the Eden350 into the product development and production cycle at Ivivi has been an unqualified success, yielding a positive return on investment in less than one year.

National University Hospital

The doctors at the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore are no strangers to the benefits of 3D printing. Founded in 1985, the hospital functions as a one-stop center for medical, surgical and dental care, treating more than a million patients a year.

Nemours

3D Printed "Exoskeleton" Lets a Little Girl Lift Her Arms and Play.

Orthopaedic Innovation Centre

Oreo was unable to walk normally following a surgery to repair his left-hind patella. Learn how FDM technology enabled veterinarians to custom-tailor an implant in only five days, fully restoring the dog’s ability to walk, jump and live an active life.

Prince of Wales Hospital

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Prince of WalesHospital bones up for upcoming surgeries by 3D printing bone models and surgical guides with its Fortus 3D Production System. Prototyping has improved surgeries, increased research and development, and saved costs.

University of Minnesota Medical Center

The University of Minnesota partnered with the U.S. Army to 3D print more realistic training mechanisms for in-the-field airway procedures, like intubations and resuscitations.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“FDM dramatically reduced both the cost and time involved in making these components while the additive manufacturing process provides nearly unlimited design flexibility. We see this approach less as rapid prototyping and more as a method of flexible manufacturing,” Fischer said.

1212 Studio

Voeten's team was able to print several design iterations and sections of the microphone in order to examine and optimize the pressure points and light distribution within the rings and between all the components. Voeten was so satisfied with the quality and strength of the printed FDM parts, he optimized the design so they could be used as final parts on the U2MICs.

3D Print Labs of Texas

3D Print Bureau of Texas partners with physicians to create patient-specific medical models for pre-operative planning and testing using PolyJet and SUP706 soluble support.

3M Korea

3M Korea, which produces household and electronic products, streamlined its design review and verification of new products before manufacturing, reduced prototype cost by a factor of 10 and shaved 6 days off the design cycle.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is one of the largest and most diverse scientific agencies the world. 3D printing has played a key role in CSIRO’s Autonomous Systems Lab accelerating research and reducing costs.

EPSI

Engineered Products and Services, Inc. saves time and money designing and prototyping its masking solutions with 3D printing. Rubber-like digital materials have increased the company’s custom mask sales, and reduced time to production by 45%.

KAIST

Researchers 3D printed components and movable parts of a wearable auxiliary device to help patients with Essential Tremor (ET), a neurological disorder. The device helps patients monitor and stabilize involuntary hand movements.

ACS

Aerospace icons like NASA and Piper Aircraft employ some of the most exciting 3D printing applications in the world.

adidas

With the ability to print models made from multiple materials, including composite Digital Materials created on the fly, the adidas Group can now perform functional testing in the early stage of the design and development process.

Adler Trio

The Adler Trio, a musical group known for its virtuosic harmonica performances, used 3D printing to create a handheld harmonica amplifier quickly and cost-effectively.

Aerialtronics

Aerialtronics, which manufactures customizable unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), can compete on an international level thanks to the cost savings, design freedom and improved development speed gained from 3D printing.

Akaishi

Using the system to make polycarbonate prototypes, Akaishi has tested designs without breakage even when strong forces were applied.

Alseca

Additive manufacturing has helped shrink the time Alseca needs to create tooling down to three or four days. 3D printing lets Alseca try more design options, shorten development times and create production ready parts.

Arad Group

Arad Group designs, manufactures and sells cutting-edge water meters around the world. To increase its competitive edge, the company brought PolyJet 3D Printing in house to develop smart water meters quickly and cost effectively.

Aran Research and Development

Aran Research & Development, Israel’s largest product design and development house, cut design time in half and lowered time to market 20 percent by adding an Objet Eden 3D Printer into its design process.

Artem Chipotle

With an approved animatic (a design file with rough-draft animated sketches), Thorne and his team simply fed that data to the Dimension 3D Printer, which produced the models in just a few hours.

Arctic Spas

Molds can cost up to $25,000, and with Dimension, we know we have an accurate model before beginning that stage of the development process," notes Arctic Spas' CAD department manager Pete Van't Hoff.

ASO International, Inc.

ASO International, a leading Japanese orthodontic laboratory, used digital dentistry to greatly expand its business reach, even to international destinations. Its Objet Eden260V allowed it to streamline production and increase its orthodontic solutions offered to customers.

Atomic

uPrint helps ATOMIC get products to market faster and reduces prototyping costs. The simple corner connectors take about four hours to print, about half the time required in the past.

Aurora Flight Sciences

Engineers at Aurora and Stratasys embarked on an ambitious project: building a jet-powered, thrust vectoring, blended wing body, remotely piloted aircraft. Utilizing 3D printing technology for production parts and tooling brings new innovations to unmanned flight.

Aviradyne

The D-DAC method relies on 3D-CAD driven additive fabrication technologies like FDM to produce parts.

Axon LLC

Axon manufactures machinery used to apply sleeve labels that shrink to fit a product’s surface. The company uses 3D printing solutions to streamline tooling fixtures saving 90% in cost.

Balda Solutions

The company decided to purchase the Objet Eden350V 3D Printer for a productive, flexible and highly accurate way to create and test product designs with prototype materials that closely mimic the materials that will be used in the final product.

Baldor

Baldor is now using the Dimension 3D Printer to test form, fit and function for a variety of design applications including mounting brackets for motors, stationary switches for motors, conduit boxes, fans and breaks.

Bassler

One of the first projects Bassler completed using the Dimension 3D Printer was a tabletop holder for e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle.

Bell and Howell

Like a number of progressive companies, Bell & Howell has made steps into the area of rapid manufacturing parts using the FDM system.

Bell Helicopter

Bell Helicopter manufactures the heavy-lift “tilt-rotor” Osprey, the hybrid aircraft that combines features of both airplane and helicopter to accomplish what none of its forbears can do. It can lift off, hover, and land vertically yet it can cruise at high altitudes at jet speeds.

Bentley Motors

Using patented PolyJet technology, Stratasys 3D Printers enable Bentley Motors to easily and quickly produce small-scale models, as well as full-size parts, for assessment and testing prior to production on the assembly line.

Berea College

FDM technology, however, may have made a difference for some. “Of the 44 students in my class, more than 20 of them said this project influenced their decision to pursue a major involving engineering technology,” said Christensen

Bianchi Bikes

The company now produces a number of prototype parts using a Dimension 3D Printer, including bicycle frames, forks, components for compatibility testing and model validation.

Biomedical Modeling

BMI uses 3D printing technology to create realistic models of human anatomy. The Stratasys J750 3D Printer’s lifelike colors and materials enable the unparalleled ability to recreate clinically relevant training simulators.

Black and Decker

The company chose the Dimension 3D Printer from Stratasys which prints tough, durable, high-quality ABS models. Having the machine in-house has completely changed product development cycles by making the process shorter and more efficient.

Bondy Fiesta

Bondy Fiesta uses the Objet Eden260V 3D Printer during all stages of product design.

BplusU

BplusU Uses 3D Printer To Create Real-Time Digital Fabrication For Museum Visitors.

Bravilor Bonamat

Bravilor Bonamat selected Dimension SST®, which incorporates an automated soluble support removal system, which gives users greater convenience in the design process by reducing engineering time and enabling the development of prototypes with more complex design geometrie.

Breville

The Breville brand is a household name in Australia, renowned for its quality small kitchen appliances. A Sydney-based company, Breville achieved international acclaim with the introduction of its iconic sandwich toaster in 1947. Breville has since expanded its market globally to over 50 countries, offering a broad range of premium small kitchen appliances including blenders, juicers and coffee machines.

Brudden

Brudden, which manufactures lines of gym products for worldwide use, added a 3D printer to its process and recouped its ROI within one year through design improvements, lead-time reductions, faster quality inspections and durable, realistic prototypes.

Bullard

During the development of the T3, Bullard brought tighter control to its development process and eliminated the high cost of outsourcing by installing a FDM system from Stratasys. With the help of FDM, the company reduced modeling costs by over 80%.

Camerino

University of Camerino uses an Eden 3D Printer to print models quickly and cost effectively at several stages the design process.

CammPro

CammPro, a 3D printing service bureau, saved 75 percent of time and cost by upgrading to a Connex 3D Printer over traditional prototyping methods. The machine’s versatile use of multiple materials, hardnesses anddesign qualities improved customer satisfaction as well.

Cardiac Design Labs

Cardiac Design Labs used a Fortus 3D Printer to prototype an ambulatory cardiac monitoring device for rural populations in India. 3D printing sped iteration cycles, which improved product design and helped CDL earn government funding.

CATeh

The University of Zagreb's Centre for Additive Technologies (CATeh), partners with the University's hospital to 3D print molds for bone cement used in cranioplasties.

Centre for Biomedical and Technology Integration

The Centre for Biomedical and Technology Integration (CBMTI) creates custom medical implants for government and private hospitals. It also works closely with the healthcare industry to enhance hospital management and surgeon training.

Champion Motorsport

FDM Empowers Champion Motorsport to Create Strong, Beautiful Parts for Porsche.

Chimei

Chimei Group innovates by combining contemporary style and user-friendliness into its consumer product designs. Established in Taiwan in 1960 as a manufacturer of acrylic sheets, Chimei has grown in leaps and bounds since branching into home appliances in 2006. Now a reputable home appliance brand in Taiwan, Chimei has introduced several popular products like its LED desk lamp and DC energy-saving fan.

Christie Digital

“Build, test, optimize. That is our motto,” said Mark Barfoot, senior manager for Christie Digital Systems, which manufactures advanced digital projectors and displays. That philosophy of constant improvement drives Christie’s innovative prototyping program.

Coleman and Associates

Coleman & Associates, which makes models for trial attorneys, streamlined its design process by adding an Objet30 Pro to its operation. The improved efficiency helped on projects including the model of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Connecticut Corsair

The Corsair was the only fighting WWII plane designed and built in Connecticut by one corporation, today’s United Technologies Corporation. In May 2005, it was declared the state aircraft by a unanimous vote of the state legislature, and today additive manufacturing technology is bringing it back to life.

Cool Gear

Cool Gear, Inc. is known for its ability to conceptualize and develop ideas, so the idea to move its modeling function from hand-crafted clay models to CAD and prototyping came naturally.

Cowan Road Middle School

Cowan Road Middle School took a different approach and introduced the students to 3D printing. With cutting-edge technology at their fingertips, students are more focused, and designing and printing useful, tangible objects.

CPI Aero

CPI Aero manufactures structural assemblies for military and commercial aircraft that must meet very close tolerances. Adding 3D printing to its tolerance inspection process saved over $28,000 to produce a set of templates.

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.creates innovative solutions to assist physicians in treating complex heart disease cases. 3D printing has been an invaluable tool in developing their latest-generation products.

Culligan

Culligan selected a Dimension BST 3D Printer, which is a networked desktop modeling system that builds functional 3D models with durable ABS plastic from the bottom up, one layer at a time.

Daihatsu

Daihatsu Motor Company in Japan puts customization and design freedom directly into the hands of its customers. The automaker relies on Stratasys 3D Printing to bring customers into the design process in a totally new way.

Designs for Hope

The group set out to design an inexpensive, durable device that would hold a generator on a bike, harvest its power and condition the electricity to feed a battery. They began making prototypes on a Dimension 3D Printer.

Designworks

Designworks Windsor uses its Objet Eden350 3D Printer to design and verify designs for its lines of collectible figurines for Doctor Who and other shows.

Dial

With the addition of the Dimension 3D printer, the Home Care design team has significantly reduced the time it takes to produce models for review by the marketing and consumer groups.

Diebold

Automated teller machines must safeguard and dispense cash in harsh and abusive conditions. When Diebold, Incorporated designs an ATM, it relies on the FDM process to prove out the design. With FDM, Diebold builds working ATM prototypes with components tough enough for machine-function tests.

Digital Mechanics

FDM process for both prototyping and manufacturing of the revised gripper.

District 196

Minnesota’s District 196 transformed three schools into award-winning STEM schools with the help of 3D printing. The hands-on approach starts early with students designing and 3D printing in the first years of their education. Read more

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Doosan Infracore

Doosan Infracore sped up the design process for its excavation equipment with an Objet Eden 3D Printer, and won a Red Dot Competition award for one of its 3D printed designs.

DSK International Campus

DSKIC and Rubika are committed to cultivating well-rounded designers with the help 3D printing. With access to 3D printing, students create concept models and functional prototypes for research and design projects, international exhibitions, competitions and seminars.

DST Control

DST developed a strategy to produce its sensitive, custom parts in-house via DDM, while outsourcing the standard parts to be made via conventional processes.

Ecoinvent

FDM offered the best combination of functionality and cost efficiency to meet Ecoinvent’s unique requirements.

Eletro Zagonel

After a service bureau leaked its confidential design to a competitor, Eletro Zagonel incorporated an Objet30 Pro 3D Printer into its process to retain confidentiality and speed time to market.

EOIR Technology

Functional models built with ABS plastic from the Dimension 3D Printer proved so tough that EOIR manufactured the final mounts on the 3D printer itself.

ESTec

ESTec, a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio systems, achieved double-digit cost reductions and eliminated post-process modifications by adding an in-house Objet 3D Printer.

Evektor

To keep up with the requirements of its customers and to increase efficiency, Evektor needed to re-evaluate its methods for prototype production.

FATHOM

Additive manufacturing provider FATHOM installed a Stratasys Continuous Build 3D Demonstrator to fulfill its vision to increase just-in-time orders, sell higher-volume FDM parts and drive scale and growth for its AM business.

FDM polycarbonate

As part of R & D for the Stratasys FDM Titan rapid prototyping system, several Beta sites were commissioned to test the equipment in their process. One industrial product manufacturer ended up using the Titan in a way it never anticipated. The Beta site was busy building various polycarbonate prototypes when a belt sander on its production line went down.

Fender

With its Objet Eden350V, says Greene, the Fender design team can prototype a part within hours versus weeks – so they are doing a lot more of it.

Flexmedia

Flexmedia Electronics Corporation saved 63 percent on prototyped part costs by incorporating an Objet 3D Printer into its development process. What’s more, it improved its design schedule and part quality for concept modeling and functional testing.

Foothill College

Foothill College inspires students with project-based learning opportunities in 3D printing. Students in the biomedical device engineering program are creating life-changing devices for real-world applications.

Gas Turbine Research Establishment

“FDM technology provided the ideal solution because the supports and interior of hollow components can be easily dissolved in a water-based solution,” says Dr. Chandrasekhar.

Graco

The Graco Inc. Contractor Equipment Division manufactures paint spraying and texturing equipment for professional contractors and tradesmen. Recently Graco designed a spray texture gun based on functional models built with tough ABS plastic parts from a Dimension 3D printer.

Grohe Water Technology

Before discovering the Dimension 3D Printer, it was much more time and cost consuming using Grohe's toolmakers or external suppliers to produce prototypes. During the first four months of use, the Dimension 3D Printer ran for more than 380 hours. In contrast, a milling cutter, installed at the same time, was used only a couple of hours.

Haier Molds

Haier Molds depends on 3D printing to meet the demand for innovative design and efficient production in the fast-paced appliance market. Using 3D printing for research and development, Haier Molds creates concept models quickly and at low cost.

Helvex

Since incorporating an Objet 3D Printer into its prototyping program, Helvex, which produces fixtures ranging from faucets to bathroom suites, drastically cut its production times.

Henk and I design firm

“The Dimension 3D printer gives us the ability to produce parts throughout the entire design process,” van der Meijden said. “We have the machine continuously busy and can produce most parts in a single day or overnight on the machine.

Honda Access

Honda Access, which manufactures accessories for cars and motorcycles as part of Honda Group, uses 3D printing to customize vehicles for different regions and types of customers.

Hoyu Tooling

The Objet Connex500 provides a unique ability to simultaneously print parts and assemblies made of multiple materials with different mechanical or physical properties – all in a single build.

i-Tech

i-Tech is a leading global provider of remotely operated vehicles and intervention tooling solutions for offshore engineering. To optimize the design, performance and application of its solutions, i-Tech turns to 3D printing.

iRobot

A leader in household robots like the Roomba, iRobot develops products with the help of FDM and PolyJet. Since adding SUP706 soluble support to the workflow, iRobot now has a more automated product design process.

Indian Springs Manufacturing

Indian Springs Manufacturing Company, Inc has a long history of helping businesses move forward through design and manufacturing. Based in Baldwinsville, NY, Indian Springs is a contract manufacturing company specializing in CNC machining and manufacturing.

Industrial Scientific Corporation

With the Dimension 3D Printer, Owens and his team can now keep more people within the company updated about a project’s progress and give decision-makers more opportunities to interact with the designs.

InnoDesign

Korea-based Innodesign in Silicon Valley brings new products to life by 3D printing models in multi-materials and in as many colors as their designers can assign. The multi-color, multi-material 3D printer adds value to the team and to the prototypes aesthetic.

In’Tech Industries

Scalable, continuous production opens new opportunities for In’Tech Industries

Institute of Physics

The Institute of Physics (IOP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a key laboratory that conducts applied physics research. To deepen understanding, the IOP’s Laboratory of Soft Matter and Biological Physics turned to 3D printing.

Ioxus

The impact of the Dimension 3D Printer on the two businesses has been dramatic.

IRIS Ohyama

IRIS Ohyama began using 3D printers when it branched into the home appliance industry to speed its R&D and design processes. Using both Objet and Dimension 3D Printers, IRIS Ohyama saw its home appliance sector grow 200%.

Jacobs Institute

With the help of Stratasys 3D Printing, surgical teams now have an advanced tool to better understand and treat aneurysms, helping reduce risks associated with delays and potential complications with various surgical approaches.

Jacobs Institute Vascular Health

Together Jacobs Institute, Kaleida Health’s Gates Vascular Institute and the University at Buffalo are using 3D printing as a platform to advance vascular care. Stratasys is a proud partner of the collaboration providing the most advanced medical modeling options in the world.

Shanghai Jahwa United

Shanghai Jahwa United, a cosmetics company, accelerated its design and testing process for customized packaging by adding 3D printing technology in-house.

Kelly Manufacturing

Achieving tight tolerances of 0.003 in. (0.0762 mm) FDM provides substantially better dimensional accuracy than the urethane casting process, and it eliminates the need for hand sanding.

Kings College Hospital

King’s College Hospital is recognized as a national specialist in maxillofacial and craniofacial care. To reduce operating times and improve pre-op planning, the hospital uses PolyJet 3D technology to produce accurate, custom surgical planning models.

Kingstar

Kingstar, the largest manufacturer of professional remote control cars in Asia, improved time to market by 15 percent with its Objet 3D Printer while maintaining its standard fine details and high quality.

Kirby Morgan

By bringing 3D printing capabilities in-house, they sought to cut model production time and to obtain complete control over the product design process.

KMCA

KMCA, which builds architectural models, 3D printed display models of an upcoming building to win prospective tenants. Choosing 3D printing over traditional stick construction saved the firm four weeks and $12,000.

Kingston University E-Racing

Kingston University’s electric car racing team lowered the weight of its electric car and improved its speed by adding lighter, durable 3D printed parts.

Labomed

Labomed’s research and development team creates a wide range of high-end ophthalmic diagnostic devices, and uses 3D printing to improve design quality, quicken the product development cycle and keep up with growing demand.

Lamborghini - Production Parts

Automaker Lamborghini turned to 3D printing to create high-strength production parts tough enough to endure the rigors of high-speed racing, as well as create complex geometries in a very tight timeline.

Leptron

“We investigated various rapid prototyping technologies and discovered that the FDM process could provide components that met the mechanical requirements for all of our plastic fuselage components,” said John Oakley, Chief Executive Officer of Leptron.

Logitech FDM

With FDM, the ability to run functional tests resulted in improved reliability and comfort for Logitech’s Mobile Bluetooth® Headset. Logitech recently updated the headset design to eliminate a problem that occurred for some users.

Logitech PolyJet

“Having Objet internally is a big bonus…Being able to spontaneously print a design has really changed the entire process flow of our product design.” --Kevin Forde, Design Engineer, Cork Design Center

Lord Benex International

Lord Benex, which produces indoor and outdoor lighting products, cut its development time and improved design confidentiality by implementing an in-house Objet Eden 3D Printer.

M-Tek

M-Tek purchased a Fortus 3D Production System to build models and functional prototypes for food packaging machines, but then used it to create parts with intricate designs not possible with conventional CNC milling methods.

m3 Design

"What drove us to Dimension was the ABS plastic material used to create the 3D models," said Carver. “We can sand, cut, paint and glue our models.”

Marlin Controls

Marlin Controls previously built lighting control panels from steel and anodized aluminum, expensive materials with high labor costs. Looking to achieve customer satisfaction at better price points, Marlin Controls turned to 3D printing.

McCann Architecture

Architectural Modeling Firm Builds Scale Model of Stunning Abu Dhabi Edifice with 3D Printing.

MCD Racing

"It takes only one day to produce a prototype part on the Dimension 3D printer," Yazici said. "So we can now prototype nearly every new part to see how it looks, how it fits together with other parts and run it on the track to see how it performs before ordering production tooling."

Mitekgruppen

Where aerial photos and drawings weren't available, designers relied on Google Earth to prepare these CAD files for the 3D printer.

MOCAP Design

MOCAP Design uses 3D printing to make its low-volume, customized helmet-mounted camera products financially viable. The design firm’s list of clients and products continue to grow, and it’s expanding into new business areas as well.

Modelzium

Architectural Modeling Firm Modelzium Enhances Competitiveness with Objet 3D Printer.

Monarch

3D printing increased customization possibilities for Monarch, which specializes in manufacturing drones for applications like crop inspection, wind turbines, aerial surveying and crime scene mapping.

Motus Motorcycles

Motus Motorcycles designed America’s first sport-touring motorcycle with the ideal engine by 3D printing large prototype engine parts. The groundbreaking design includes a 6-speed transmission and a custom V4 engine, the first ever in an American motorcycle.

MSA AUER

MS AUER product managers know exactly what their customers need and handle order placement in-house. Models made of ABS plastic enable them to quickly determine whether the product meets market requirements.

Nakazato

Yuima Nakazato, a Japanese fashion designer, launched his career in 2009 with his first collection in Paris. After receiving numerous awards and accolades – and even creating stage costumes for Lady Gaga – he strived to continue to push fashion forward.

Enter 3D printing. For his 2014 line, Nakazato used an Objet500 Connex 3D Printer to create his line of neo-futuristic sportswear – a Japan first for the fashion industry.

NASA Mars Rover

For its 3D-printed parts, NASA uses ABS, PCABS and polycarbonate materials. FDM, patented by Stratasys, is the only 3D-printing method that supports production-grade thermoplastics, which are lightweight but durable enough for rugged end-use parts.

Nemo

“Rapid prototyping is extremely important to our business,” said Davey. “It helps us keep things fresh and quickly turn designs into production quality parts. Prototyping with the Dimension saves us two or three months from concept to production on any one part.”

Neptec

Using a Dimension 3D printer, Neptec was able to use the three-dimensional information from the LCS to print a 3D model of the damage aboard the Endeavour.

Nestle Nespresso

The use of ABS plastic makes it possible to produce mechanically stable parts in the Dimension printer. Nespresso conducts function tests on the models, creating brewing units, handles, capsule holders and hot plates for cups as well as other parts of a Nespresso machine as models and testing their functions in a subsequent step.

Shaping Young Hearts

Stratasys helps a surgeon save more kids.

Nimrod Racing

Nimrod Racing, an expert designer and manufacturer of radio control car components, used 3D printing to create high-quality yet cost-effective limited editions of its hobbyist cars.

Norgaard

"The Dimension 3D printer is the best investment I have ever made in my studio," Norgaard said. "We save time, arrive at the final product stages much faster and it is much easier to explain the product to our clients. Our customers now have the ability to more accurately see how the product will appear in real life."

Old Dominion University

Students at Old Dominion University got a leg up at a national robotics competition, Robonation, thanks to 3D printing. Armed with two uPrint 3D Printers and GrabCAD Print software, the team cut prototyping and building time in half, saved on costs and customized 50 parts of their finished vessel.

ONCE

By incorporating a 3D printer into its process, the Spanish National Organization for the Blind improved its testing prototypes for consumer products, like keyboards or Sudoku games, for people with visual disabilities.

Oreck

Oreck employs additive manufacturing to create custom assembly pallets for its commercial vacuum business. Oreck uses FDM extensively to produce prototypes, specialized assembly tools and CNC milling fixtures.

OTH Regensburg

At OTH Regensburg in Germany, students use applied research and engineering with 3D printing to develop sensor applications for the automotive, medical, industrial, electronic and mechanical industries.

Parvus

With the Dimension 3D Printer, Parvus designers avoided a number of productivity bottlenecks and completed modeling approvimately 80 percent faster than using CNC milling.

Paul Davis and Partners

Dimension 3D Printer Helps Build Success at London based Paul Davis + Partners.

Pedal Brain

“FDM has substantially improved our design process by enabling us to go from concept to reality in about two hours at a cost of $10 for the typical part,” Bauer said.

Peltor AB

Peltor AB, which develops safety products including hearing protectors and safety glasses, reduced its design iteration time from weeks to days with its in-house 3D printer.

Peppermint Energy

Once engineers had honed the device as far as possible in CAD, Peppermint needed a physical prototype. “It was hard for anybody, including me, to truly appreciate size and scale when you’re looking at it onscreen,” Gramm said. At three feet wide and likely to weigh 60 pounds, the FORTY2 required a seriously robust housing, complex and strong enough to hold all of its components. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) was the only 3D printing method that could deliver.

Pioneer

Pioneer Corporation, which manufactures digital electronic equipment for cars, added a 3D printer to its design and production processes to help create and validate its augmented reality navigation system, which displays directions on the windshield's interior.

Piper Aircraft

Piper is using hydroforming to produce hundreds of aluminum structural components of the aircraft such as the inner frame, gussets, brackets, skins, etc. In the past, the company machined aluminum form tools for use in hydroforming machines.

Polaris

Engineers designed the carrier rack in Pro/E and built it using a Stratasys 3D Production System, employing the FDM additive fabrication process.

Premium Transmission Ltd.

Premium Transmission moved from traditional manufacturing castings to in-house 3D printing, saving prototyping time and greatly reducing costs while meeting the tough demands oft he global engineering industry faster than ever before.

Puma

“The Objet 3D Printer enables us to reduce our prototype production time by 75%, from 4 days to 1 day. It helps us communicate between remote sites, reduce design mistakes, and avoid unstable tooling.” --Andy Chung, Tooling & 3D Engineer, PUMA

Purdue University

For professors and students at Purdue University, 3D printing aids in the learning and research process, whether it’s testing hypotheses or determining the feasibility of designs. The benefits of applied research with 3D printing enables long-term research opportunities.

QTRCO

QTRCO, designer and manufacturer of actuators, a type of motor, used 3D printing to create lightweight, portable samples that better travel to potential customers, and saved costs and expanded business in the process.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Queen Elizabeth Hospital has integrated 3D printing into its pre-surgical operations, leading to time and cost savings in operations, and enabling surgeons to work more quickly and precisely to meet the exact needs of each patient.

Queensborough

Queensborough Community College set up a 3D printing lab to connect academic programs with businesses to accelerate local economic development. The college provides workshops and courses to students, industry, college and high school faculty, and local organizations.

R Bot

3Detection Labs uses its Dimension 3D Printer in every phase of developing robotics: concept modeling, construction and functional testing, error identification and end-use parts.

Rapid Models and Prototypes

RM&P added FDM rapid prototyping to its services a few years ago, and Pizzo says it has greatly expanded the company’s capabilities.

RedDOT — FDM Nylon Prototyping

HVAC system designer RedDOT couldn’t easily prototype nylon parts in-house, and corrections delayed production by several months. Adding FDM Nylon 12 to its materials options allowed RedDOT to build functional prototypes quickly and easily.

RedDOT — ULTEM 9085 Prototyping

RedDOT designs and builds mobile heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and components for on- and off-highway vehicles including commercial trucks and vehicles used in construction, agriculture, military and other demanding applications.

Rietveld Architects

Objet 3D Printing Technology Enables New York-Based International Architecture Firm to Shave Months Off Model-Building Time.

RLM Industries

RLM began the project by modifying the CAD model provided by the customer. These revisions were completed in one day and at the end of the day engineers set up their Stratasys machine to produce an FDM prototype.

Rocket Crafters

ABS thermoplastic's high butadiene content, when compounded with additives, offers the potential to create much higher thrust and specific impulse than traditional hybrid fuels like hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) and paraffin waxes. FDM Technology easily scales to any required level of production without additional skilled labor simply by the purchase of additional Fortus Systems.

RTM

RTM depends on Stratasys’ 3D printing technology to produce prototypes with greater and more affordable personalization for improved patient outcomes, usability and affordability.

Salomon

Salomon, a sports equipment manufacturer that specializes in footwear for various sports markets, found the perfect fit by incorporating a Dimension 3D Printer into its design process to speed prototyping, boost design numbers and increase savings.

Sam Houston State University

The Center for Innovation and Technology at Sam Houston State University opened up 3D printing to business students to teach skills needed for 21st-century innovation. Students learn product development and production while working with local organizations.

Sanchuan

Jiangxi Sanchuan Water Meters, which manufactures water metering systems and pipe fitting components, fulfilled its requirements for durable, finely detailed prototypes and budget targets, with an Objet30 Pro 3D Printer.

SAP

SAP, which designs and manufactures customized seating and other parts for watercraft, added a Fortus 3D Printer to its design process and compressed its design cycle, reduced costs and revolutionized its manufacturing with end-use parts.

Savannah College of Art and Design

To meet growing student demand for 3D printing access, Savannah College of Art and Design installed a Stratasys Continuous Build 3D Demonstrator. The school plans to serve 50 to 100 times its current number with this new technology.

Smart Company Exhibition Center

SCEC specializes in creating a variety of models and interior designs for exhibition halls and museums. Using PolyJet technology helps it meet precision and color reproduction requirements, and win projects with prestigious clients.

SelectTech Geospatial

Inspired by an Air Force defense program, SelectTech Geospatial proved that an innovative company could make a UAS (unmanned aerial system) quickly and with limited resources. SelectTech’s test flight also marked the first time a 3D-printed UAS took off and landed on its own gear.

Sense and Beauty Dental Clinic

The Sense & Beauty Dental Clinic in Taiwan offers a range of comprehensive dental services and emphasizes the use of advanced technologies and 3D printing in diagnoses, dental treatments and training for practitioners.

Servco

Servco used an Objet30 Pro 3D Printer with PolyJet technology to prototype its Eagle product, a mobile, flexible lab furniture system. Increased prototyping capabilities through in-house 3D printing halved the expected time to market while ensuring design confidentiality.

Sheppard Air Force Base

“Because most of our projects are either one-of-a-kind or very low volume, conventional methods become very expensive,” says Mitchell Weatherly, Chief of the TDF. “Only about 10 percent of our work is for prototyping, and 90 percent is production.”

Shimada

Shimada Precision used 3D printing to shift from on-demand manufacturing to direct product development and create products in-house. The company now creates innovative lighting products and has the design freedom to expand into new industries.

Shunde Polytechnic Institute

Shunde Polytechnic Institute uses 3D printing to develop students’ professional skills. The school leverages innovative teaching solutions to prepare students for the ever-changing market dynamics and advancing technology.

Siemens

Siemens Mobility division required an alternative manufacturing solution to overcome the time and cost barriers associated with traditional low volume production. With the integration of a Stratasys Fortus 900mc 3D printer into its production process, Siemens Mobility was able to address these challenges by 3D printing on-demand.

Silgan Plastics

Silgan built FDM prototypes of the 10 design concepts over a 48-hour period at a cost of $30 in materials and $270 in FDM machine time and overhead for each.

Smoby Toys

French toymaker Smoby Toys produces plastic toys for children using innovative designs and bright colors. Selling more than 4,000 toys in 30 countries, Smoby found a way to improve toy design and manufacturing with 3D printing.

Sodimas

Sodimas specializes in high-end custom elevators and depends on FDM technology for three primary applications: functional prototyping, assembly jigs, and sales tools and teaching aids.

Soft Play

Soft Play, which manufactures indoor play areas, uses 3D printing to satisfy three distinct customer groups: fun playgrounds for kids, safe products for parents and accurate and efficient models for customers.

Solidify

Service provider Solidify Technology Sdn Bhd uses a diverse range of tooling machines – including FDM 3D Printers – to serve a wide range of industries, including automotive, electrical appliances, architecture and industrial machinery.

Specialty Appliances

Specialty Appliances, a digital orthodontic laboratory, added three 3D printers to its workflow, yielding more accurate models, faster patient visits, lower costs and more options for patients.

Spring SRL

Streamlined Manufacturing and Increased Flexibility at Spring SRL with FDM

SSL

SSL, a satellite systems manufacturer, uses FDM technology to create customized, high-temperature lay-up tooling with complex, custom geometries. 3D printed parts eliminate high costs and lengthy lead times typically associated with composite tool production.

Stratasys Manufacturing

Since employing FDM to create fixtures at Stratasys, the manufacturing engineering department is responding faster and increasing its productivity.

Subsea

The Subsea Company, which produces parts and equipment for the subsea marketplace, uses FDM 3D printing to prototype efficiently, quickly and more inexpensively.

SUNY New Paltz

Many degree programs at SUNY New Paltz require students to utilize 3D printing. Students studying engineering, art,computer science and more are exposed to innovative technology that inspires,engages and promotes career readiness.

Swany

Swany’s engineers instantly became fans of the Connex 3D Printer and its ability to print 14 material properties simultaneously in a single part. It has allowed the company to give shape to its customers’ most creative ideas quickly, easily and cost effectively.

Swift Engineering

Swift Engineering relies on 3D printing for innovative applications like sacrificial tooling. Swift uses composite parts for aerospace and motorsport applications to reduce weight and improve performance.

Synergy

Synergy transforms bright ideas into viable, innovative products. To hasten and sharpen their product development process, Synergy uses a Stratasys J750 3D Printer to produce prototypes in full color with multiple materials, textures and gradients.

Tape Wrangler

Tape Wrangler is a product development and manufacturing company that attributes rapid revenue growth in large part to product design made nimble by a move to in-house 3D printing.

TE Connectivity

As it continues to improve its products and maintain market competitiveness, TE invested in a 3D Printer from Stratasys. Since then, the printer has helped enhance its R&D capabilities, resulting in higher-quality products, shorter product development cycles, improved innovation capacities and lower costs.

Thermal Dynamics

Although the Fortus system was put to work building prototypes, engineers quickly realized its potential for direct digital manufacturing.

Thermos

Since adopting 3D printing, Matsuyama’s team builds prototypes faster and at a reduced cost. Previously, outsourcing a typical prototype took three to five days. “But now we can do it internally, and finish a prototype in hours. If it’s a small part, the job is done in minutes,” Matsuyama says.

Thogus Products

FDM touches every aspect of business at Thogus. “We have automation, robots on our machines. Rather than using a steel plate or aluminum frame for big, heavy end of arm tools that are expensive and take long time to build, we can take 3D geometry and print an end of arm tool that weighs 70 – 90% less. And we can do it in less than 24 hours.”

Top Notch Design

Top Notch Design, an industrial and high-end product development design shop, improved its design process and fit and function testing by incorporating a 3D printer, while also ensuring client design confidentiality.

Toro

"Our 3D Production System generated accurate prototypes. And it took only a few hours for a typical component." Their system enabled Toro to perfect designs for a fraction of what they might have cost.

Trainer Development Flight (TDF)

Based at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, the Trainer Development Flight (TDF) is a facility that designs, develops, and manufactures trainers and training aids for the Air Force and all branches of the Department of Defense (DoD) as required.

Transference

Professional model creator uses 3D printing to perfect complex designs and ensure building designs meet the strict rules for typhoon and earthquake preparedness.

Trek

Trek’s designers are thrilled with the Objet Connex – instead of waiting days or weeks for their prototypes, they can now hold a part in their hands in as little as 30 minutes.

Trek

Trek’s designers are thrilled with the Objet Connex – instead of waiting days or weeks for their prototypes, they can now hold a part in their hands in as little as 30 minutes.

Turck

Turck, internationally recognized for its process automation applications, creates junction boxes, cordsets and splitters using injection molding. To save time and avoid losing potential clients with custom requests, Turck uses 3D printing for durable prototyping.

Udell Dental Laboratory

Udell Dental Laboratory discovered that adding 3D printing to its workflow saved it both time and money – but then it discovered that a Stratasys 3D Printer saves them even more of both.

Unilever

Consumer goods giant iterates 50 percent faster with 3D printing.

University of Central Florida (Limbitless)

The University of Central Florida partnered with the nonprofit Enabling the Future to create limb replacements and donate them to children in need. 3D printing played an instrumental role in the project’s prototyping and affordability.

University of Pavia

The University of Pavia uses 3D printing to develop detailed surgical plans and provide better-quality patient care for lower-risk operations. The university uses 3D printed surgical guides for spleen, kidney and pancreatic surgeries.

Victoria University of Wellington

For Victoria University of Wellington students applied learning is transformational. 3D printing is an outstanding educational tool for them, helping students across many disciplines understand complex theories and prepare for the workforce.

Utah Trikes

Utah Trikes, a manufacturer of trikes, quads and custom wheelchairs capitalizes on the new FDM Nylon 12CF material from Stratasys, which helps it prototype faster, with superior stiffness-to-weight performance and with better repeatability.

UTC Aerospace Systems

The Aerostructures business of UTC Aerospace Systems builds large, critical assemblies for commercial and military aircraft. On one project, UTC 3D printed in strong ULTEM 1010 resin, saving 20 days’ time and 63% of costs.

Volvo Trucks

Volvo Truck produces tough manufacturing and assembly tools in 94 percent less time with 3D printing.Volvo Truck can 3D print lighter-weight tools and fixtures in production-grade ABSplus thermoplastic in just a couple of days. Read more

Volvo Construction Equipment

Construction equipment manufacturer Volvo Construction Equipment avoided tooling costs by 3D printing functional prototypes for its articulated hauler, saving 18 weeks and over $9,200.

Vulcan Custom Dental

3D printing enables Vulcan Custom Dental to better meet challenges of a growing market, including balancing workloads, optimizing device turnaround times and staying competitive all while reducing cost.

Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University established the Sears think [box] as an innovative and entrepreneurial space forstudents and the surrounding community. The innovation center’s 3D printers providehands-on learning where education, design, development and product commercializationcome together.

Western Tool and Mold

The strength of its Fortus 3D Printer – and the ULTEM 9085 resin it uses – enabled manufacturer Western Tool & Mold to quickly validate injection molding designs, even out workflows and strengthen customer relationships.

Whale

Whale Pumps was looking for a way to accelerate time to market for their pumping and heating systems. Learn how 3D printing low-volume injection molding tools helped them cut time and cost from product development.

Wincor Nixdorf

With the Dimension 3D Printer, Wincor Nixdorf's product development team is now able to present solutions to their customers quickly, developing products within a few days.

Wood Group

In less than three months, Wood Group was able to develop functional models in-house for more than 100 components, a feat that would have cost thousands of dollars and taken much longer using outside service providers and less advanced technology.

Xerox (networking)

The Xerox design team looked to the Dimension 3D Printer to help improve their efficiency at producing prototype parts by moving away from the traditional 'machining' function and moving more cuttingedge 3D printing equipment in house.

Xerox (thermoforming)

Xerox originally purchased a FDM machine primarily to produce prototype parts, but soon realized that it was also the ideal tool for fixtures and assembly tooling for use in its manufacturing processes.

Xerox (tooling)

Xerox needed 350 connectors modified immediately for testing. “We have used FDM to make many different types of tooling, so I started thinking of how I could utilize FDM to make tooling to modify the connectors,” Byerley said.

York University

York University employs four uPrint 3D Printers to customize designs, prepare engineering students with skills for the future, and prototype on a budget. 3D printing can be 30 to 50% less expensive for projects at York than CNC prototyping.

Zebra

Zebra – on the forefront of cutting-edge writing tools in Japan for over 100 years – sharpened its writing instrument creation process with the acquisition of an Objet 3D Printer, greatly speeding up time to market

BMW

Rapid prototyping has become a standard practice in product development. At the BMW AG plant in Regensburg, Germany, FDM continues to be an important component in vehicle design prototyping.

DCD Dental

DCD Dental Consulting Laboratories, a full-service dental laboratory and consulting company, established its own digital workflow based on Objet 3D printing. In only a few months, DCD Dental Consulting has expanded its business offering, increased its capacity and built a solid reputation for digital dentistry knowledge and services.

University of Wollongong

The Wollongong-based Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) is headquarters for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) materials node. IPRI focuses on improving the functionality of nano-scale materials and facilitating applications in areas including energy and medical bionics.

Bishop Reding

Since purchasing a Dimension 3D printer, Bishop Reding students design their parts in a virtual 3D environment (with industry-standard 3D software as such as ArtCam) to exact specifications, print the prototype, and if necessary, re-engineer the design, re-print and continue robot construction with very little down time.

Dana Corp

Dana Corporation, a Tier One automotive supplier, assumes responsibility for designing components to meet its customers’ requirements. Validating these designs with prototypes from conventional machining and casting methods required weeks or months and tens of thousands of dollars.

Dash CAE

Dash CAE, a leading supplier of high-end vehicle parts, embraced 3D printing to produce vehicle components for functional testing in harsh environments. The company also created race-ready production parts for its Formula One customers.

Dental Care

With variety of in-house CT scanning and user-friendly conversion tools, DentalCare technicians could turn a traditional CT images into a digital manufacture-ready dental model in very short time.

Chung-Ang University

Chung-Ang University set up a 3D Digital Design Laboratory offering hands-on technical training to students. Professors there use 3D printing to spark interest in mechanical design and help students overcome challenges in product design coursework.

City University of Hong Kong

The City University of Hong Kong incorporated a Fortus 3D Printer to provide students hands-on learning experiences with the latest technology. For example, now architectural students can design, print and improve their own architectural forms.

Ducati

By bringing FDM in-house, Ducati cut 20 months from the development process of the engine designed for its Desmosedici race bike.

Guide3D

Guide3D now has the freedom and capacity to continuously add new customers while maintaining tight control over their overheads, and in this way expand their business and stay ahead one step ahead of their competitors.

Formula SAE

Student automotive engineers used FDM to build an end-use manifold, which they mounted onto their Formula-SAE car. It was faster and less expensive to 3D print this custom auto part than to machine it in aluminum.

Jefferson County Schools

Students in the Jefferson County, Colorado, school district 3D printed a prototype to grow plants in space. Through a partnership with NASA, the students tested the prototype in zero gravity before sending it to the International Space Station.

KTJ Dental Technology Group

KTJ Dental Technology Group optimizes its dental modeling process by producing high-quality models, rapidly and precisely, with its new Objet Eden260V 3D Printer.

FTR Moto

FTR Moto, which specializes in the design, production and development of racing motorcycles, halved costs and turnaround times for prototypes, revved up its customized parts business and impressed clients with quick results – all using 3D printing.

Gordon Murray

Formula One veteran Gordon Murray’s automotive design firm Gordon Murray Design invested in a Fortus 3D Printer to help design more affordable and ecological cars and boost its radical redesign of the traditional manufacturing process.

GSK Precision

Automotive manufacturer GSK Precision cut prototyping costs by 5 to 10 percent and shortened its product development cycles by one month using an Objet Eden 3D Printer to prototype, test and verify its parts.

Lake Zurich High School

Students at Lake Zurich High School in Lake Zurich, Illinois have long been designing interesting buildings, mechanical assemblies and consumer products for class projects, as well as robots for the FIRST competition. But until recently, the ability of the students to actually see and touch these designs was very limited. Students were able to build only a few of the simplest projects.

Leone

Leone helped dental labs improve the precision of its surgical guides while leveraging the knowledge and experience of its skilled dental technicians. Having invested in two Objet 3D Printers in 2011, the company saw an opportunity to combine the benefits of manual surgical guide construction with the advantages of digital technology.

NimroDENTAL

NimroDENTAL Orthodontic Solutions added two 3D printers to its dental lab for more precise parts and fit, better communication with patients, increased cost-effectiveness and cleaner, faster production.

Hanil E-Hwa

Hanil E-Hwa has found that FDM is a crucial tool to eliminate the inevitable design flaws that arise when accelerating the product development and manufacturing process.

Oratio BV

With its new Objet 3D Printer, Oratio is now able to bypass the slow and expensive CNC milling technology to deliver models faster, at lower costs, and maintain its competitive position even as the market gets tougher.

Scripps Institution

Martin Rapa, developmental engineer for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), is responsible for designing and implementing deep-sea seismic research equipment. With help from a handful of students in the engineering department participating in a paid internship program, Rapa produces every component for the Institute’s ocean bottom seismology instruments.

Harman Becker

The Harman Becker design team sought a quick, effective and, above all, high-quality solution for developing functional 3D models.

Ortholine

The daily production yield per technician leapfrogged dramatically in a very short time, and Ortholine could offer its customers appliances and models within short delivery times and at competitive prices.

Singularity University

The mission of Singularity University, founded in 2009, is “to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who understand and develop exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” These technologies include biotechnology, supercomputing and robotics. The university hopes to stimulate ground-breaking, disruptive thinking that will solve some of the world’s greatest problems.

Hyundai Mobis

Korean-based Hyundai Mobis makes original and aftermarket equipment for the automotive industry, including Hyundai and Kia. In its drive to be best in class and a global top 10 supplier, it depends on prototyping for design verification, airflow evaluation, and functional testing.

Swiss Alpine Museum

Thanks to Dimension’s 3D technology, the Swiss Alpine Museum can create models of the 3,970-meter (13,000 feet) Eiger or the Matterhorn, the seventh-highest mountain in the Alps at 4,478 meters (14,700 feet), in just a few hours. These spectacular peaks are a challenge not only for the relief builder, but also for the Dimension 3D printer. To create a model of the Eiger using a 3D printer, the museum specifies a section; in a second step, the Topographical Institute in Bern sends it to Proform AG as a digital map. Proform then prepares this map as 3D CAD data for the Dimension 3D printer.

Ichikoh Industries

Ichikoh Industries Ltd. manufactures lamps and mirrors for a wide range of automakers. By adding an in-house Objet Eden500V 3D Printer into its design process, Ichikoh improved time to market, ROI and design capabilities in one move.

Protaico

With efficient in-house manufacturing and the many new indication possibilities, Protaico was able to present a greater variety of dental solutions to their dentist clients.

Utah Valley University

“We had no idea how much the Dimension 3D Printer would add to our curriculum until it arrived in the classroom,” says Manning. “Evidence of this is the 3D Design Derby; the Dimension 3D Printer laid the foundation for the establishment of this contest.”

Bishop Strachan

Shortly after the Bishop Strachan School began its search for a 3D printer, Dimension became the obvious choice. "The opportunity for the girls to produce working models of their projects was imperative," Steadman said. "In the end, other systems lacked Dimension's dynamic capabilities.

Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover installed an Objet Connex500 in the summer of 2008. The 3D printer was chosen for its multi-material capability, which combines two different materials and draws on their best attributes to deliver superior models.

Protec Dental Laboratories

Protec Selects Objet’s 3D Printer to Complete Full Integration of Digital Workﬂow.

Bremen University of Applied Sciences

The Rapid Prototype Laboratory at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences was established two years ago to provide its students with practical experience in a simulated professional environment.

Joe Gibbs Racing

We can build prototypes tough enough to bolt onto the car, even the engine block, for evaluation, and they can take the heat.

Remedent

The printed models produced on the Objet Eden500V are bio-compatible and can be coldsterilized, with exceptionally fine details and an outstanding surface finish – all necessary forensuring the high degree of accuracy required by the high standards of Remedent team anddentists.

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Dr. József Gábor Kovács, head of the Department of Polymer Engineering Laboratory, sought the assistance of 3D printing technology when faced with a design challenge posed by a major manufacturer.

Joe Gibbs Racing Filter

When it comes to safety, the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) design engineers don’t leave anything to chance. Thanks to a new SR-100 soluble support material used with FDM from Stratasys, they can now create complex carbon monoxide filter housings for their cars using polycarbonate (PC) material, which has a higher temperature rating than the previous material used.

Joe Gibbs Racing Gauges

Joe Gibbs Racing can adapt to each NASCAR race with the help of Stratasys 3D Printing. A modular dashboard with a 3D printed insert allows for customized gauges needed to gain that crucial competitive edge.

ScanSystems

Digital dentistry is being rapidly adopted, propelled by a combination of continuously increased CAD/CAM productivity and advanced 3D printing capabilities.

Chico High School

3D printing is an innovative, affordable design and construction tool for Chico High School students. Its impact expands far beyond allowing students just experimenting. With 3D printing, students are exposed to real-world learning that supports career and college readiness.

Klock Werks

Klock Werks engineers designed the gauge pod, fork tube covers, headlight bezel, floorboard mounts, floorboard undercovers, and wheel spacer cover in SolidWorks.

Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg Automotive uses a 3D printer developing its line of supercars for everything from printing engine parts to designing interior fixtures, cutting costs and speeding design times.

T32 Dental Centre

T32 Dental Centre added an Objet Eden260V 3D Printer to its technology mix. Now T32’s dental surgeons can create customized surgical guides in the office in just a few hours, which increases pre-surgery planning, shortens surgery time and reduces post-surgery complications.

Chienkuo Technology University

Since adopting the Objet solution, cooperation with outside enterprises has grown by 20%. As a result, students now have greater opportunities to gain practical experience as they are able to create the prototypes requested by the enterprises.

Lamborghini

The Fortus build envelope was large enough to produce a 1/6 scale model of the body and chassis in one piece. The Lamborghini Lab built complete 1/6 scale prototypes of the body and chassis in two months, including printing out and assembling the parts.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Since adding 3D printing to its curriculum in 1995, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Mechanical and Automation Engineering department has used the technology more and more, for prototyping, research, artwork and more.

Magna Closures

Magna Closures, a leading supplier to the global automotive industry, uses 3D printing and scanning to cut the time and cost of design prototyping. Product development projects are increasing without the need for more staff.

Mercury Customs

In order to streamline its design process, Mercury Customs decided to try a new tool in their shop - a Dimension 3D printer. "We were very impressed with the capabilities of the Dimension 3D printer," Takai said.

Cornell University

With a Dimension 3D Printer in the classroom, Cornell has the ability to print functional, working kinematic models in durable ABS plastic. These physical replicas of the originals are ideal for student interaction.

Minimizer

With Minimizer’s onsite Fortus 3D Production System, Larsen can build functional prototypes in just hours or, for large parts, days.

Coventry University

Peter Phillips, Design Technician sees the benefits the Eden250 printer brings to the learning process – principally saving time and promoting creative thinking.

Northstar Manufacturing

After purchasing a Dimension SST 1200es 3D Printer, Miller and his team found parts that used to take three or four months to design and build now took a few days.

Cypress Woods High School

“The ability of Dimension to quickly and inexpensively produce parts that are strong enough for use in real applications opens up a world of opportunities for schools,” Bennett concluded.

Orange County Choppers

Over the last few years, OCC has begun producing more and more parts for its custom bikes on a Fortus 400mc 3D Production System. “What’s great about additive manufacturing is that you can work with the solid model created during the design process without any additional preparation,” said Jason Pohl, graphic artist and designer for OCC.

East Tennessee State University

Product design is a key aspect of the applied research sector in the technology and geomatics department of East Tennessee State University (ETSU).

Parker Hannifin-Racor

Parker Hannifin's Racor division recently designed an emissions filter that enables diesel engine manufacturers to meet new emission requirements. The company used its Fortus FDM system to create a PPSF (polyphenylsulfone) prototype of the filter.

Edina Public Schools

Peter Grimm, an industrial technology teacher at Southview Middle School in Edina, Minn., has challenged his eighth-grade pre-engineering students to find a solution for this messy problem. And the Dimension the uPrint Personal 3D Printer is helping students find creative answers.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

“We had been carving wind tunnel models by hand from mahogany wood, but we soon realized we needed our own machine so we could do it quickly and inexpensively,” said Smith.

RENNTech

RENNtech, which specializes in tuning and enhancing performance for European-made cars, used a Dimension 3D Printer to prototype a Mercedes-Benz GLK for a SEMA show. RENNtech beat an impossible deadline and also took first place.

Solaxis

Solaxis designed a 3D printed jig used to assemble high-volume plastic door seals. The jig is over 100 pounds lighter than a typical jig for this application and cuts the design and manufacturing time by at least two thirds.

Triple Eight Race Engineering

Australian motor racing team accelerates design process with FDM technology

Holon Institute of Technology

HIT Industrial Design Department Gains Speed, Accuracy and Creativity with Objet 3D Printing Technology.

Urbee

Stratasys 3D Printers built Urbee, first prototype car to have entire body created with an additive process.

Institute of Technical Education

Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education trains post-secondary learners in 3D printing to support the country’s applied research and development industry through more focused and technical skill training, and also to expand students’ development.

Valeo

VALEO Shashi A/C chose the Objet Eden mainly because of its high-precision, ultra-thin-layer 3D printing process, which creates models that have outstanding detail and smoothly curved surfaces.

Mahidol University

The efficient printing capabilities of the Objet Eden260V have reduced model build time by 50% over the Engineering Faculty’s previous 3D printer.

Nanyang Technological University

The costefficient system enables quick realization of 3D molds within the framework of the department’s research, with early detection and removal of potential defects ensuring cost savings and drastically faster development and production cycles.

New England Institute of Technology

Dimension outputs 3D prints made of ABS plastic, a durable material that enables students and faculty to easily test their designs for fit and function

North Carolina State

"The Dimension 3D printer definitely saved my students and me time, but most of all, it allowed us to do something that would have been otherwise impossible – to produce poseable action figures cost effectively, without the use of a service bureau and the associated lag time and production costs," Barnes said.

Owensboro Community Technical College

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) was looking to extend its CAD and Machine Tool program and curriculum by incorporating technology that would allow students to create functional 3D models. OCTC recently acquired the Dimension 3D Printer, a tool that is helping students gain a new, critical area of expertise and powerful, real-world experience.

Paradise Valley High School

Howardell says one of the biggest benefits of the Dimension 3D Printer is that its use is scalable based on individual student abilities.

Project Lead The Way Colorado

PLTW is a national program that prepares students to be successful in engineering and engineering technology programs by exposing them to various facets of engineering and design disciplines.

Rochester Community and Technical College

Students at RCTC continue to find new, innovative ways to use the versatile Dimension 3D printer. “The students enjoy seeing ‘hands-on’ prototypes made within hours of their completed CAD designs,” Benson said.”It has been a valuable addition to our college.”

Rochester Institute of Technology

With all the buzz 3D printing has earned recently, students are increasingly aware of it, and they want to understand what is possible and how they can use the technology.

Royal Military College

RMC purchased a Dimension 3D printer three years ago when searching for a quality, economical 3D modeling alternative. The varied needs of the engineering department have since been met by the speed, accuracy and large build envelope of the Dimension 3D printer.

Starbase

At STARBASE Minnesota, a non-profit educational organization serving nearly 4,000 students each year from more than 30 inner city schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul, instructors have found an assignment that eliminates this aversion – have the students plan a mission to Mars that includes building working rockets.

Symbiosis International University (SID)

Symbiosis International University, a select design school in India, immerses students in cutting-edge technology. Its state-of-the-art design lab provides engineering design challenges in the latest technologies and hands-on experience with 3D printing.

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Objet’s Connex350 3D Printing System Enables Real World Physical Testing at Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab.

Thapar University

The team was awarded Best Indian Team in 2010. It was also recognized as the only Indian team to complete endurance tests successfully and for its use of FDM for fabricating both the air intake manifold and the steering wheel. Using this process saved considerable time and money compared to the original plan to CNC machine the parts.

Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Objet Desktop 3D Printing Capabilities Empower Tongji University Students’ Architectural Creativity.

University California San Francisco

"Along with the savings on custom parts, uPrint is a powerful way to assist us with visualization of molecular models, and our team continues to find novel, unexpected uses for the printer," said DeRisi.

University of Alabama Huntsville

Recent student design projects have benefited greatly from the use of the Fortus 3D Production System.

University of Applied Sciences Jena

With 3D printing in the lab and the classroom, today’s researchers and tomorrow’s scientists, engineers and designers are solving the world’s challenges.

University of Central Florida

Each year the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) challenges students to design and produce underwater vehicles that operate without any human control.

University of Maryland

Using Objet 3D printing technology, University of Maryland aerospace engineers significantly enhanced the validity and productivity of research studies

University of Tsukuba

Over six months, Takeda made nearly 70 prototypes. “It was only possible with this 3D printer,” he says. Some prototypes were built in just hours, and the PolyJet technology-based system provided the impressively fine resolution needed for Olympic-quality product development. The 3D printer produces smooth prototypes with layers just 16 microns thick.

University of Virginia

In early 2010, the prototyping lab began using a single Stratasys uPrint 3D Printer as its sole source of model production.

University of Zurich

Objet 3D Printing Helps Shed Light on Ancient Human Evolution.

University of Advancing Technology

The University of Advancing Technology uses its uPrint 3D Printer for digital video projects, product redesigns and customized parts.

UT Dallas

University of Texas at Dallas is using both FDM and PolyJet technologies to develop a system to scan for assess possible brain injuries onsite that student athletes incur during sporting events.

West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Not long after, the professors received a grant to purchase a Dimension 3D Printer and began using it about a year and a half after they started the project. Initially, they anticipated using the Dimension 3D printer to complete the more complicated capitol buildings. "As we got into the process, we found that modeling other minor details was much faster than making them out of balsa or illustration board, and they looked so much better in many cases," said King.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), renowned for its role in the discovery of the Titanic, continues on its mission of research at the frontiers of ocean science. In its quest to understand ecological interactions and ecosystem function, the organization has developed a system for continuous, 3D tracking of earth's largest mammals.

Yamagata Prefectural Museum

Finally, a museum is encouraging patrons to touch the art. The Yamagata Prefectural Museum is using 3D printing technology to create replicas of a 4,500-year-old national treasure for museumgoers to better learn, explore and touch their history.

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