Case Studies
AEC
CAD/Prototyping
Education
Geospatial
Healthcare
AEC
Learn how a leading design, engineering and prototyping studio in Stockholm is using ZPrinting to create early demand among teams, performers and patrons of a 30,000-seat Stockholm Arena.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture:
Read how the acclaimed Royal Institute of Technology integrated ZPrinting into the curriculum to teach students advanced building fabrication techniques and to unlock the vast design talent of those who will shape 21st century architecture.
iKix:
Architectural modeling service in India introduces 3D printing as a project management tool, and shaves 3% to 8% off construction budgets, captures errors prior to construction, and provides models in 6 to 10 days versus a month.
World-class architectural firm uses 3D physical models to speed and improve internal critiques, leading to better designs, impressing clients, galvanizing OBMI’s longstanding reputation as a leader in the global architecture community, and substantially increasing profit margins.
Visionary architecture and urban planning firm uses ZPrinters to help create transcendent ‘places,’ and sell architectural innovations to clients, while reducing the time, cost and labor to create architectural models.
A leading Nordic consulting group uses 3D printing to create models at less than one third the cost of handmade models, resulting in dramatic time savings, an increase in efficiency and accuracy, and new business.
A multidimensional visualization firm in Miami, Fla. ZPrints models on demand four times quicker than laser-cutting and one-sixth the cost of stereolithography.
Builder of premium 3D scale architecture models uses ZPrinting to deliver precise building models in one-sixth the time of handcrafting and one-third the cost of handcrafted models.
A 25,000-student institution committed to excellence in scholarship and scientific practice is carrying out more than 800 3D printing projects to date in manufacturing, architecture modeling and medicine and learning that 3D printing cost effectively provides vital strategic benefits to organizations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
World-renowned educational Institution developed a graduate course on digital fabrication in architecture and produces ZPrinted architectural models quickly for teaching and research.
3D printing helps world-class Danish architects win business and communicate their vision.
Leading designer of Formula 1 circuits and on-site facilities saves time and money and expands business with multicolour 3D printing.
70-year-old manufacturer of commercial and residential plumbing products needed to find a way to rapidly produce concept prototypes for engineers’ and architects’ creating custom bathroom fixture designs. Purchasing a full-color ZPrinter capable of printing 12 faucet models in three and a half hours enabled Symmons to deliver a custom physical model of a showerhead or faucet to any architect or designer within four days and win lucrative new business.
Two multicolor ZPrinters help architects at Sagrada Familia, Expiatory Church conceived by Antoni Gaudi, follow Gaudi’s method while saving time and money.
Andrew Chary Architect, PLLC, NY, discusses their experience integrating 3D printing into the design process, and how they print models daily to shorten design time, better communicate ideas, and win business.
Watch how Bentley uses multicolor ZPrinters to provide clients with full color geospatial models, and how they continue to innovate using 3D printing.
See how a US modeling service uses ZPrinters to produce both full color and all-white models for its AEC and geospatial clients.
See how a US firm quickly and affordably helps customers get more mileage out of their 3D computer models and improve communication using ZPrinters.
CAD/Prototyping
All around the world, our ZPrinters® are bringing color in our customers’ day-to-day life. This new case study from Clifford, a welding machines manufacturer in South Africa, demonstrates how valuable ZPrinted full color models are in the promotion and sales process.
This world leader in the design and manufacturing of crash test dummies Uses 3D printing and silicone versus machined metal for making prototype molds. The results? ZPrinting cuts time, cost and work from the innovation cycle, starting with a strategic military project and a tight deadline.
Vladimirsky Center for Glassware and Containers:
Learn how this Russian manufacturer of glass containers used ZPrinting to reduce the time and cost of product development and expand the range of product and service offerings.
Read how a leading maker of the largest complete line of Ford-based parts and accessories worldwide saves an average of $3,000 USD per product in machining and moldmaking costs using ZPrinting.
Learn how a leading global developer of home networking and networked entertainment solutions combines time-honored aesthetic principles with 3D printing to produce some of the world's most elegant consumer electronic equipment.
A world leader in shoes for men and women and children has gained a distinct competitive advantage by using ZPrinting to cut the design and development cycle from months to weeks and has kicked off a new era of innovation. Video
70-year-old manufacturer of commercial and residential plumbing products needed to find a way to rapidly produce concept prototypes for engineers’ and architects’ creating custom bathroom fixture designs. Purchasing a full-color ZPrinter capable of printing 12 faucet models in three and a half hours enabled Symmons to deliver a custom physical model of a showerhead or faucet to any architect or designer within four days and win lucrative new business.
A leading global manufacturer of power tools, hardware, home improvement products, fasteners, and accessories with more than $5 billion in annual sales adopted 3D printing for fast, cost effective production of early concept models. The result? Shorter design cycles and improved product aesthetics and ergonomics.
Learn how the largest tire maker in Germany and the fourth largest in the world uses 3D printing to save time and money creating prototypes, accelerate the production of tread samples, and support other lines of business, including the sales force.
A two-centuries-old manufacturer of fine tableware in stoneware, china and porcelain uses 3D printing to quickly and affordably create prototypes of new designs, reducing prototyping time from four weeks to two hours, launching product lines in two years instead of four, enabling the use of customer focus groups, and impressing customers by using advanced technology. Video
Private, family-owned designer and maker of diversified products shaped with pressurized water uses 3D printing to quickly and affordably create physical models that communicate the superior strength of its parts, thereby shortening its design/production cycle by 40 percent, eliminating tooling and assembly errors, reducing time to market, increasing customer satisfaction and closing sales faster.
Maker of portable and standby electric generators, air compressors, air tools, pressure power washers and emergency backup systems ZPrints, to reduce time to prototype from three weeks to a half day, slash annual prototyping costs, and significantly improve communication with manufacturing partners in Asia.
National leader in steam-related products and services creates prototypes in house with a ZPrinter, compressing its design cycle by 25 to 30 percent, saving $600 to $800 per model, increasing product quality, and evolving into a strategic solution for numerous other applications.
Global leader in the design, engineering and marketing of premium-quality footwear, apparel and accessories uses 3D printing to create prototypes on demand, dramatically reducing prototype costs and turnaround time, and leading to more prototyping, better designs and increased revenue.
Leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance remote-controlled cars switched to ZPrinting to obtain stronger, higher resolution parts, save time and money, and generate significant new sales.
One of the largest toothbrush makers in Europe and the manufacturer behind some of the world’s most popular toothbrush labels is using 3D printing to make prototypes three times faster, at one-tenth the previous cost, and greatly improve toothbrush design.
Mackay Consolidated Industries - ZScanner Story:
Major Australian supplier of rubber products uses the ZScanner 600 for faster, easier and more accurate measurement and inspection, improving the time, cost, labor and accuracy of quality assurance processes, including documentation for customers.
A product design firm in Porto, Portugal, specializing in marine design and reverse engineering, uses the ZScanner to open new markets and revenue streams and has elevated the company’s stature from both the engineering and civic perspectives.
M7 Aerospace - ZScanner Story:
Leading provider of aerospace and defense services profits from breakthrough handheld ZScanning technology.
Blackhawk Helicopter Trainer - ZScanner Story Courtesy of EMS
See how Reebok employs 3D printing strategically in the organization to improve the design process, while significantly cutting costs and time to market.
Integra Products:
Education
One of Canada's leading research universities uses facial reconstruction based, in part, on 3D printing skull models to match remains to photographs of known missing soldiers.
Read how the acclaimed Royal Institute of Technology integrated ZPrinting into the curriculum to teach students advanced building fabrication techniques and to unlock the vast design talent of those who will shape 21st century architecture.
A ZPrinter 650 3D printer is transforming inter-departmental collaboration at Durham University and is helping the university's earth scientists understand the geology and conditions that cause earthquakes in Italy.
ZPrinting gives students at the Royal College of Art a way to transform their designs, by affordably producing multiple iterations of their design prototypes.
Global leader in art and design education uses ZScanning and ZPrinting across disciplines to provide students facing tight deadlines a way to affordably and quickly produce high-quality prototypes of their designs, giving them in-depth experience and an edge when pursuing careers.
Learn how the first private military college in the US and birthplace of the nation’s ROTC program uses 3D printed waterproof production parts to quickly and affordably develop an intelligent autonomous under sea vehicle.
World-renowned educational Institution developed a graduate course on digital fabrication in architecture and produces ZPrinted architectural models quickly for teaching and research.
A 500-student high school in Mansfield, Ohio, USA, uses a color ZPrinter across multiple disciplines to enhance students’ design education, giving them all possible advantages for success in higher education and career.
Prestigious US university is using 3D printing to create realistic busts of long-dead children for identification purposes.
Staten Island Technical High School:
A 900-student school for aspiring engineers is using 3D printing to make the learning environment mirror the professional engineering world, including enabling all students to turn their designs into physical prototypes.
A 25,000-student institution committed to excellence in scholarship and scientific practice is carrying out more than 800 3D printing projects to date in manufacturing, architecture modeling and medicine and learning that 3D printing cost effectively provides vital strategic benefits to organizations.
Four-year secondary school in Stafford, Va., USA, includes 3D printing in a technology and engineering program that resulted in students developing Formula One racing car prototypes that earned them a 2nd place in an F1 in a local Schools competition and 7th in the world.
Top UK university incorporates 3D printing into all disciplines in the university’s School of Design, producing parts and prototypes for entire classes in a single day, or in some cases, a single build, creating final projects in hours instead of weeks, and giving students exposure to technologies that they will use in their careers. Video
Sunderland University - ZScanner Story:
UK university with strong links to business and industry uses ZScanning and ZPrinting to give students an advantage in starting their careers, and resulted in saving 3M UK PLC time, money, and frustration in diagnosing manufacturing issues, helping the Beamish Museum replicate 19th century mechanical parts, and giving “SU Racing-Formula Student” competitors an easier way to fit engines into chassis and fabricate parts with sleek and complex surfaces. Video
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Geospatial
Industry leader in providing accurate 3D topographic models for museums and municipalities uses multicolor ZPrinting, resulting in increased client communication, fewer lost business opportunities, and new value creation.
Creator of precision 3D images, animations and physical land- and city-scapes based on aerial and satellite stereographic photography is using 3D printing to transform virtual 3D images into physical 3D models for maximum impact on the viewer, save money, and grow their business.
See how LandPrint.com has built its business around using a color ZPrinter to transform satellite imagery into 3D Physical Landscapes.
The Army Corps’ mapping team played a key role in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, helping chart New Orleans as soldiers and civil authorities saved lives and property. The dynamic situation – changing floodwater levels, hospital statuses, and hot spots – required a constant re-mapping of the terrain, including buildings, water and other natural features. Learn how the U.S. military better visualized unfamiliar settings With 3D printing.
Healthcare
US Central Identification Laboratory of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC):
A US Department of Defense command whose mission is achieving the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation’s past conflicts is using ZPrinting to match remains to the identities of missing service personnel, and refine the technique of skull photographic superimposition.
Beyond the X-ray: How ZPrinted 3D models improve surgical results for customers of Planmeca Oy, the world’s largest privately owned high-tech dental equipment manufacturer.
