3D Methods has accomplished its strategic initiative to insource the manufacturing of two extra strategic printer platforms. The corporate transferred this exercise from two electronics manufacturing providers (EMS) companions, with which 3D Methods maintains business relationships to develop the adoption of those platforms globally. On account of insourcing, the corporate now controls all the manufacturing course of from design to manufacturing – leveraging its deep technical and utility experience to ship merchandise of superior high quality and innovation to its prospects. Moreover, with this elevated stage of producing course of management, 3D Methods has matched or improved manufacturing high quality and diminished lead instances to fulfill buyer demand. This contains the flexibility to be nimble and adapt options to fulfill prospects’ distinctive wants with unmatched additive manufacturing capabilities and printing course of customization choices.
“Our prospects need dependable, high-quality merchandise that meet their evolving wants to be used in manufacturing unit manufacturing environments,” stated Dr. Joe Zuiker, Government Vice President of Engineering and Operations at 3D Methods. “In-house manufacturing not solely permits us to streamline manufacturing and cut back lead instances, but it surely additionally permits us to supply aggressive pricing by extra environment friendly operations. This implies our prospects can obtain larger worth from our manufacturing printers, sooner than ever earlier than. We elevate our dedication to buyer satisfaction by additionally offering printing course of options tailor-made to our prospects’ distinctive necessities and distinctive buyer help. Our steady enchancment helps our prospects speed up their adoption of additive manufacturing and thereby attain a aggressive benefit of their market.”
“We’re happy to realize this main milestone which is catalyzing our capability to ship enhanced high quality, and pioneering innovation for our prospects. We started our insourcing initiative final yr by consolidating the manufacturing of a number of polymer 3D printing platforms into our Rock Hill, South Carolina facility. Since that point we now have skilled dramatic enhancements in each value and high quality, in addition to the flexibility to speed up the introduction of latest merchandise to fulfill the market’s constantly evolving wants. Since endeavor this initiative final yr, lead instances have shortened every quarter, and we imagine that this exercise, together with different actions places us on the trail to cut back general stock by over 20% in 2024. The choice to insource helps us to higher make the most of our belongings and inner assets, not solely driving operational enhancements but in addition value reductions that align with our monetary commitments to shareholders,” stated Dr. Jeffrey Graves, President and CEO of 3D Methods.
Insourced manufacturing of those two printer platforms started in August 2023 and, as of immediately, manufacturing models can be found to be positioned at buyer websites.
