3D Printing for Manufacturing
The tooling, not the product. A printer beside the line replaces a six-week purchase order with an overnight build, and that is where the money is.
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Tooling overnight, not in six weeks
The parts that keep a factory running are almost never bought in useful quantities. One fixture. Two guards. A guide that was modified twice this year. Every one of them goes out as a purchase order and comes back weeks later, and in between the line works around it.
A printer on the floor changes the unit of time from weeks to hours. The part is modelled in the morning, printed overnight and in service the next shift — and when it is wrong, it is wrong by one night’s work.
What Manufacturing Teams Print
Line-side tooling
Fixtures, guides and stops, made to this line and revised as it changes.
End-of-arm tooling
Grippers and nests built to the part, not to a catalogue of standard jaws.
Guards & covers
Machine guarding and protective covers, printed to the actual machine.
On-demand spares
The low-runner and obsolete parts, printed when needed instead of stocked.
Gauges & poka-yoke
Go / no-go checks that make the wrong assembly physically impossible.
Conveyor & handling parts
Guides, pushers and star wheels in nylon and PETG.
Which Process for Which Part
| The part | Process & material | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Assembly fixture | FDM · PETG or CF-Nylon | Stiff, tough and cheap to revise |
| Gripper / EOAT | SLS · Nylon 12 | Complex, light and no supports in the channels |
| Machine guard | FDM · PETG | Large, tough, and clear enough to see through |
| High-temperature part | FDM · PC or CF-Nylon | Holds shape near hot machinery |
| Chemical-contact part | FDM · PP | Inert to the process chemistry |
| Spare-part batch | HP MJF · Nylon 12 | Consistent properties across the batch |
What We Would Put On the Floor
Dragon
High-speed industrial FDM to 600 mm/s, in three sizes up to 700×400×400 mm.
Twin Dragon
Independent dual extrusion to 600×600×400 mm — two materials, mirror and duplication modes.
Volterra
450 °C hotend and a 90 °C heated chamber for the toughest engineering polymers.
Apollo SLS
Production-grade laser sintering — nylon parts with no supports and full geometric freedom.
Material Dryer (MDS1)
Keeps hygroscopic filament print-ready, so the material stops being the variable.
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Vacuum Casting
Moulded-looking parts in colour, without a steel tool.
Finishing & Assembly
Sanded, painted, inserted and assembled before it ships.
Put additive to work in manufacturing
Tell us the part, the quantity and what it has to survive. We will tell you whether to print it, cast it or machine it — and what that costs.