Design For Additive Manufacturing

When I originally started my first company in 2010 it was not in additive, it was a mechanical engineering firm and to this day I still operate that business and we specialize in designing factory automation equipment. For the first 5 years when we were just an engineering firm, I was always keeping an eye on 3D Printing and its capabilities while thinking “Why are we not using this technology to make parts for all the machines we are designing”? The gap I kept finding that separated these two markets was that machine designers/builders did not know what additive technologies were capable of and additive manufacturers did not understand what these machine builders' true needs were (or what they were even trying to do). In 2016 I set out to bridge that gap with the acquisition of our local additive part supplier and the formation of our 3DP business unit. Since that point, my team and I have made it our mission to help educate machine build and automation companies about the potential for additive manufacturing beyond the simple jigs and fixtures.

Paul DeWys, Sales Engineer, Forerunner 3D Printing

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