Objet
printer helps design team explore new ideas quickly
Greene says the greatest benefit to having the Objet
printer in-house is that it has given his team
the ability to explore new ideas really quickly. “Having the Eden350V
in-house means we can experiment more. It’s given us a lot of freedom and creative latitude. If
I have an idea for something new and edgy, I can design it and have a prototype in just a few
hours. If it doesn’t work out, I’ve only used an afternoon instead of a week.”
“We call the Objet
printer ‘our favorite toy’” he adds. “When
people come to Fender for tours we always show it off.”
Fender’s marketing staff is ecstatic with the Objet
3D printer. “We’ll leave a meeting with
marketing and have a working prototype to show them the next day,” says Greene. “They are
amazed at how quickly we can now go from concept to reality.”
“You can show something on paper all day long,” adds Greene,” but when you give them
something real they can touch, people really get excited.” Greene also believes that the
Eden350V has helped Fender provide better products to its customers. “We prototype so much
more now and I feel it’s absolutely had an impact on the quality of our designs, because often
the prototypes cause us to make little tweaks throughout the design process to improve the look,
feel and functionality of a part.”
Even with increase in volume, rapid prototyping costs are half
of what they were when Fender outsourced
Even with the significant increase in the amount of rapid prototyping Fender now does, Greene
says its costs are half of what they were when the company outsourced the work. And despite its
frequent use, the performance of Fender’s Eden350V has been rock solid. “In 18 months it has
not gone down even once,” says Greene.
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Objet Geometries Ltd., the innovation leader in 3D printing, develops,
manufactures and globally markets ultra-thin-layer, high-resolution 3-dimensional
printing systems and materials that utilize PolyJet™ polymer jetting technology,
to print ultra-thin 16-micron layers.
The market-proven Eden™ line of 3D Printing Systems and the Alaris™30
3D desktop
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Technology. The Connex™ family is based on Objet’s PolyJet Matrix™
Technology, which jets multiple model materials simultaneously and creates
composite Digital Materials™ on the fly. All Objet systems use Objet’s FullCure®
materials to create accurate, clean, smooth, and highly detailed 3D parts.
About Objet Geometries
Objet’s solutions enable manufacturers and industrial designers to reduce
cost of product development and dramatically shorten time-to-market of new
products. Objet systems are in use by world leaders in many industries, such
as Education, Medical / Medical Devices & Dental, Consumer Electronics,
Automotive, Toys, Consumer Goods, and Footwear industries in North America,
Europe, Asia, Australia, and Japan.
Founded in 1998, Objet serves its growing worldwide customer base through
offices in USA, Mexico, Europe, Japan, China and Hong Kong, and a global
network of distribution partners. Objet owns more than 50 patents and patent
pending inventions. Visit www.objet.com.
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