Accelerate Innovation to Bring the Consumer Technology Products of the Future to Market Now
Consumer technology has become prolific in our everyday lives, spurring a revolution from devices for smart homes to connected wearables. To differentiate your company in this extremely competitive industry, you need to bring groundbreaking products to market faster and constantly create unique customer experiences that deliver value. This level of consumer demand drives the need for design flexibility, prototype performance, rapid iteration, supply chain continuity, sustainable solutions, and operational productivity from prototyping to bridge production and mass customization.
3D Systems’ consultative approach and 3D printing solutions can give you a competitive advantage to meet these challenges. With a dedicated team of experts and decades of industry experience, we collaborate with you on application development and leverage the largest suite of additive manufacturing solutions in the industry to meet your specific needs.
Leveraging Advanced 3D Printing to Accelerate Consumer Technology Product Development
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3D Printing Applications for Consumer Technology
3D printing solutions can address prototyping and low-volume production needs for a vast array of new and emerging consumer technologies. This can range from virtual and augmented reality, to enter the immersive online environment of the metaverse, to smart homes, IoT, AI, 5G, connected wearables, computers, and other consumer electronics.
Figure 4® Additive Manufacturing at Nokia
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3D Printing Solutions that Accelerate Innovation
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Complete Solutions Portfolio
Our hardware, software, materials, post-processing, and manufacturing operating system (MOS) solutions offer unprecedented speed, quality, design flexibility, economics, and product reliability. 3D Systems offers the largest suite of additive manufacturing solutions for plastic and metal 3D printing, with 7 technologies, over 130 materials, and more than 1,000 patents during the past decade.
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Production-Grade Materials
Our 3D printing materials address the widest variety of applications and performance characteristics in additive manufacturing to offer a range of features that are critical to prototyping and production for consumer technology products. Our diverse portfolio includes photopolymers with long-term stability and mechanical properties similar to production thermoplastics, heat-resistant materials, biocompatible materials for extended contact with skin and chemical resistance, and elastomers for wearables.
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Application Development
Through our Application Innovation Group, we leverage years of consumer technology and additive manufacturing expertise to help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with optimized 3D printing solutions. We provide you with application support, from advanced concept development to bridge production and mass customization.
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World-Class Service Support
From installation to hands-on training and consulting support, 3D Systems’ experts enable you to quickly and effectively ramp up your operation. To maximize your uptime and keep your fleet running efficiently, our world-class service organization is equipped to meet your business needs with on-call experts, field engineering services, preventive maintenance programs, and optimized equipment for high serviceability.
Partner with 3D Systems to Enhance Design to Production Workflows
Responsiveness
With 3D Systems’ solutions capable of 3D printing prototypes in less than 24 hours, OEMs can optimize their workflow to reduce the time between design iterations, enabling rapid order fulfillment and faster time-to-market. In-house production guarantees part delivery for a streamlined supply chain while our Customer Innovation Centers offer flexibility to increase capacity.
Design Flexibility
Optimally design, rapidly iterate, and manufacture highly complex parts. Components that were previously unthinkable to produce can easily be made a reality by leveraging 3D printing. Additive manufacturing delivers advanced parts with immediate turnaround and rapid product iteration capabilities, eliminating the time and cost of tooling.
End-Use Performance with Production-Grade Materials
Accuracy, precision, and mechanical properties are critical factors for product validation and end-use components. Achieve production performance with advanced 3D printing solutions and materials that deliver parts with final product look, feel, mechanical characteristics, quality, and performance.
Operational Productivity
Our end-to-end additive manufacturing solutions are designed to deliver industry-leading quality, reliability, and productivity to keep your operation running efficiently for high-volume production of prototypes, bridge manufacturing, and mass customization. Maximized uptime, reduced labor enabled by downstream compatibility with automation, and minimized waste contribute to a lower cost per part and high manufacturing yield.
Mass Customization
Designing and building customized components is part of creating next-generation consumer technology products. Tailoring these to the consumer can be costly with conventional methods. We facilitate mass-customization by giving engineers precise control over each component, to create a unique customer experience, with the capability to scale.
Sustainability
We focus on developing solutions to enable our customers to address evolving sustainability challenges, considering strategies such as advanced materials, production on-demand, and improved efficiencies through additive manufacturing capabilities.
Resources
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3D Printing for Consumer Technology
Discover how 3D Systems’ additive manufacturing solutions can empower consumer technology manufacturers to accelerate innovation and increase product performance.
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3D Printers Buyer's Guide
Download your copy of the 3D printing buyer’s guide today to discover the best 3D printing technology for you.
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Materials Buyer's Guide
An overview of the 3D printing materials landscape. You’ll uncover a wide array of plastic materials, which deliver a vast range of characteristics such as flexibility to bio-compatibility and more, ensuring you have a material suited to your specific application’s requirements.
Talk to an Expert
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Application Innovation Group
Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.