“Every feature is more or less conventional, but putting them together in a single compact and competitive mechanism is really a challenge.”

“With conventional manufacturing technologies, assembly by brazing extremely thin tubes to a manifold is a painstaking operation with very low reliability when it comes to leakages under high-pressure conditions. With DMP technology, no assembly is required since the part is produced in one continuous operation, no matter how complex the …

“FreeForm takes the costly and time-consuming need to re-sculpt out of the picture.”

“I just took the IGES model, pulled it right into Catia and machined the mold. With this process, it only took 12 minutes to make a surfboard.”

"Our philosophy behind our exhibits is to make real science approachable through hands-on, engaging exhibits From an educational point of view, we knew that the concept of functional pathways needed to be an important aspect of brain science that was addressed in the exhibit, and diffusion tensor imaging gets to …

"Everyone told us it was way too complex to handle on a 3D printer. We were surprised because everything we knew about 3D printing said that it was good with complex shapes."

“To get 100 rotors from our outside multiple vendor process would take us four months, from start to finish. Now we make 100 rotors in-house in a week. GibbsCAM and the CNC let us do that. We use the rotors in our other pumps with great results. The in-house produced …

“We use SolidWorks almost exclusively for design. I can send the model to Doug Nealy, our programmer and machinist who loads it into GibbsCAM, and it’s nearly ready to go. GibbsCAM is very easy to use and very accommodating. We can literally load a part and run. The conventional machines …

“Before, we would have to wait weeks. Now I can have a perfect functional part, tested and ready for production, within a couple of hours.”

"After we did our evaluation, we found nothing that could beat what was offered by Cimatron. It’s fast and easy to operate. There is other software out there, but Cimatron is the only one that is made specifically for tool and mold shops."

“As European and Japanese automakers continue to move production to North America, their supply chain follows them. Automotive sealing suppliers from Europe and Japan have now established operations in Canada and the US; and the European moldmakers that worked with these companies in Europe are now competing on the business …

"We’ve been able to produce parts off the SLS 3D printers from 3D Systems that I’d been told for years would not build in SLS. It is far exceeding what we thought it was capable of. The applications for it and the speed at which it produces parts are unprecedented."

“We have several critical flatness and parallelism requirements, and we need to make sure we are delivering on our commitment to quality at every turn.”

“It’s unbelievable what you can do with this machine. We can take on so many more unique and deeply personal projects now that we have the ProJet [3510] CPX working for us.”

“Seeing the printer is always exciting for our customers. It’s an experience they get here that sets us apart from our competition, and it gets our customers involved. They really get to design their own jewelry and see the whole process. It’s exciting, fun and unique, from beginning to end.”