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3D Systems has three decades of expertise in application development across all major industry verticals and manufacturing processes to address your customers’ challenges. We have developed the broadest range of integrated additive manufacturing (AM) solutions that maximize your productivity, reliability, uptime, and yield – delivering your customers high quality parts while realizing exceptional total cost of ownership (TCO).  

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The Role of 3D Printing for Service Bureaus

  • Direct Digital Production of End-Use Parts

    Production-grade materials and additive manufacturing technologies provide direct production options for custom products, low volume and bridge manufacturing. Save on tooling costs by 3D printing directly from a 3D file, and take advantage of fast turnaround production parts delivery. Produce plastic and metal parts with 3D printing that are simply not possible with standard manufacturing, including topology optimized parts, consolidated assemblies, highly complex anatomical shapes, internal channels, complex surface textures, and internal lattices.

  • Indirect Manufacturing & Tooling

    3D Systems technologies can streamline your manufacturing workflows by delivering the design flexibility, quality, accuracy, and materials performance needed for critical applications, such as composite tooling, forming tools, molds, master patterns, and manufacturing aids (jigs and fixtures).  

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4 Reasons To Use A 3D Printing Service Bureau | Stratasys Direct

4 Reasons to Use a 3D Printing Service Bureau

Like many businesses, your company is exploring 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Maybe you have the perfect design, and the innate benefits of 3D printing has caught the attention of your team. But while the benefits may be clear, operational costs and implementation may not be. Perhaps your company has considered buying a 3D printer, but aren’t sure about the costs involved and technological expertise needed. Then the question occurs, would it be better to buy a printer or outsource our 3D printing needs?

These internal debates have existed for years in the manufacturing realm and especially the 3D printing arena. Fortunately, the field has expanded in such a way that owning a printer and outsourcing don’t always have to be mutually exclusive.

Below we’ve highlighted four important considerations when thinking through these options:

1. Advanced Equipment and Materials

Prototypes are just a percentage of the parts produced in major 3D printing services bureaus like Stratasys Direct Manufacturing. Additively manufactured production parts for major industries are continuing to grow due to technology advancements and development of materials from rigid and elastomeric plastics to high strength metals and alloys. 3D printing customers are aware of the inherent design freedoms, cost effectiveness and quick turnarounds associated with 3D printing production parts, but aren’t equipped to set up the operations associated with major additive manufacturing.

Some businesses have office set-ups perfect for clean, safe printers like the Stratasys F123 Series, but when exploring the more production caliber technologies like Laser Sintering and Direct Metal Laser Sintering, a considerable amount of careful handling and higher process temperatures have to be considered.

That’s where service bureaus fit in with their scope of technologies and materials. By utilizing their services, you can explore new 3D printing technologies that might not be available to you otherwise. Specifically, additive metals are not an in-house possibility for most businesses due to cost, material handling, and technical requirements. Stratasys Direct has the expertise, finishing capabilities, controls and secondary operations necessary to produce robust and functional DMLS components.

2. Investment Risk

Buying an additive manufacturing technology can be a significant capital expense all on its own. Additionally, it often involves investing in staff to set up software, provide maintenance, purchase and install material and other consumables. The setup involved may disrupt and require reconfiguring of overall operations. Though owning a printer may be in your future, a service bureau is a great first step toward incorporating 3D printing into your business. Working with experts to understand which technology works best for your applications and quality requirements can help you determine which solution you need for the long term.

3. Part Manufacturability

Sometimes a part is complex and requires a special build style or specific materials. In-house operations may not be able to fulfill the desired look, feel or function. Or perhaps it’s time to try something new with the design and an exploration of new materials and build styles may be in order. Service bureaus open that opportunity to you.

This can also be a complementary process to in-house operations. Conventional manufacturers may need custom jigs and fixtures that would be better accomplished with additive manufacturing. Large parts or parts needing assembly might be better accomplished with a bureau’s experienced finishers who can assemble multiple sections without sacrificing strength or integrity.

4. Additive Manufacturing Expertise

At the end of the day, it’s really about expertise for quality parts. Stratasys Direct Manufacturing has been in the 3D printing industry practically since its inception and has made a point to explore every new avenue as it emerged. Development of parts for major players across a variety of industries, including aerospace, medical and consumer products means we’re well equipped to take on even the most complex application.

The sweet spot in additive manufacturing is a high volume of a low mix of part designs; there we can deliver with unmatched consistency and repeatability. We have developed the process and quality controls needed to deliver parts with strict requirements and certifications.

In addition to our manufacturing capabilities, we’ve spent 30 years honing post-processing and finishing skills that are unmatched in the industry. So many additive manufacturing technologies require knowledge of what’s required to finish them to customer desire and the supplemental equipment used to accomplish it. For DMLS especially, there is a full suite of post-processing equipment required to produce metals parts.

In other words, service bureaus like Stratasys Direct Manufacturing may be better suited to help customers realize additive manufacturing’s full potential for your application. We take amazing new ideas for products and technologies and champion them into real applications, one-by-one, by identifying new ways 3D printing can bring them to life faster and easier. Let’s take your idea and fully realize the possibilities available to you through our suite of technologies and services.

Services of small-scale 3D Printing prices from 6 rubles / year | 3D Modeling

If you are a design company, a design office, an individual entrepreneur, a custom products manufacturing company, a designer, an engineer, an inventor, a small manufacturing company of any branch, an architectural company or a creative mind with your own idea, then PMK is definitely for you. Our company is able to provide exactly what you have been looking for - low prices for 3D printing, the shortest order execution times and excellent quality.

In the design workshop of Kupolov, you will not only get an excellent result, but also save a lot of money. Especially when it comes to complex parts, parts of mechanisms and functional elements of structures. Why is it so? It's very simple, let's look at two options for manufacturing spare parts.

Transfer the layout, if available, to the performer, or simply provide a live sample

Create a 3D layout using a specialized program

Send to print (offline process, which is fully controlled by the program)

Simple manual post-processing using chemicals and specialized tools

In the second method, despite the fact that we go through the same number of stages of work, there are obvious advantages:

You don't have to buy extra material, or rather, you don't think about finding and buying raw materials at all. This is already included in the cost of the work. And the type of material is selected by an experienced specialist, focusing on the needs and tasks of the client

The whole process, except for post-processing, is automated

The cost of filaments for printing is much lower than plastics for casting and iron Freedom of product shape, you don’t have to think about the capabilities of the machine, printing is strictly according to the layout and has no restrictions

Short lead times

Due to all these advantages and benefits, the cost of printing on a 3d printer is really affordable. It allows you to reduce the cost of purchasing certain parts by almost 50, and sometimes 70 percent.

Of course, the price of 3D printing depends on the product itself, plastic consumption, printing time and the selected material.

Kupolov's design workshop has set itself the task of making such a service as accessible and of high quality as possible. We spent a lot of time developing the database by the supplier of materials in order to make our offer the best on the market. Therefore, if you need to order 3D printing, we suggest contacting our specialists to calculate the cost. They will quickly calculate the cost, as well as conduct a detailed consultation.

Technologies do not stand still, every year new opportunities, materials, equipment appear. And what just recently seemed fantastic is now in service with manufacturing companies. One of the recent gains in the market, of course, is 3D printing. A wide range of materials, limitless options for sizes and shapes, make it more than in demand. But the maximum popularity is ensured by the possibility of piece and small-scale production. To get the right part, you do not have to run a whole workshop.

You don't have to understand technology, get bogged down in complex drawings, and try to get the size millimeter by millimeter. In order to successfully complete the order of 3D plastic parts, it is enough to have a sample of the desired product, its drawing or sketch.

The possibilities of 3D printing are almost limitless, and these are not only technical details and elements of mechanisms, the most popular are: The prototype makes it possible to evaluate the future project in miniature, to look at it from the outside, to understand what shortcomings there are. And effectively present it at exhibitions and conferences. Prototypes, if required by the task, have moving parts, removable and rotary elements.

Serial decorative items, souvenirs - such simple but spectacular things will be a great corporate gift, especially if they have a company logo on them.

Home accessories and decor items - 3d printing material - not just plastic. Thread manufacturers offer many options, not only colors, but also textures. The most interesting are: porcelain, ceramics, rubber, carbon, wood and neon. Printed, for example, vases, from these types of plastic will become a real decoration of the interior, and meeting something similar will definitely not be realistic. The production of 3d products is a demanded service for all industrial complexes, regardless of the type of activity. Machine tools tend to wear out, break down - parts fail and there is a need to replace them. Ordering an original spare part can sometimes be very expensive and time consuming. And printing on a printer will allow you to complete the task in the shortest possible time and at no extra cost.

3D printing technologies are multifaceted, they vary depending on the material, the shape of the product and their purpose. Some things can be printed with just plastic and just post-processed, but for some things you need props and manual assembly.

3d printing services in Moscow are not difficult to find, there are a huge number of offers on the market. But how not to make a mistake with the choice of the artist? Of course, it is worth focusing on experience and technical equipment. We have a sufficient number of high-speed printers in our workshop, which allows us to produce serial orders in the shortest possible time.

Printing a 3d plastic product is a laborious job, and the result depends on the correct choice of materials, printing method and subsequent processing. Therefore, you should trust the professionals.

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Chinese funeral home prints 3D body parts for damaged corpses

Many people in the country die from natural disasters, as well as from traffic accidents and industrial accidents, during which parts of the body and bones can be damaged.

According to Chinese state broadcaster China Radio International, a funeral home in Shanghai has begun 3D printing body parts to replace mutilated or damaged body parts on corpses.

3D printing at the funeral home's Longhua Funeral Parlor involves creating a three-dimensional organ by layering multiple layers of material on top of each other, according to Chinese government-funded news site The Paper. The combination of 3D body parts, hair implants and makeup will restore the damaged face with 95% accuracy, noted in The Paper.

Damaged body parts and destroyed bone structures can be the result of death from natural disasters, road accidents and industrial accidents, the paper notes. “It is difficult for relatives to see the mutilated faces or bodies of their loved ones when they attend a memorial service, and makeup cannot always hide the damage sufficiently,” said Louis Fengming, director of the Shanghai Funeral Services Center. People can also use the technology to make the corpses of their loved ones look younger or better, Liu added.

Traditionally, Chinese funeral homes have repaired mutilated or damaged areas with wax, according to The Paper. While these materials helped reshape the faces of corpses, they couldn't accurately recreate the texture of the skin and hair, Louis explained.

According to China Radio International, facial reconstruction costs $620-776.

In recent years, hundreds of people in China have died in industrial accidents, many of which are the result of disregard for safety rules and regulations. Last December, an artificial landslide of accumulated construction waste collapsed in Shenzhen, southern China, killing almost 60 people.

It is noted that Longhua, believed to be the first in a Chinese funeral home to offer 3D printing services for body parts, is part of the Shanghai implementation of China's 13th Five-Year Plan. The plan, which was approved last October, called for new innovations in science and technology. In February 2015, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also released a plan outlining the goals for the development of the 3D printing industry in the country.

Longhua's new service adds a new 3D technology to the list of cadaver correction methods. Last month, a group of scientists and researchers announced that they had succeeded in 3D printing a body organ, opening the door to solving the problem of disability or a shortage of organ donors. You can get acquainted with the prices and choose the appropriate model in the online store of 3D printers https://vektorus.

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