Fortus Customers who save money by producing manufacturing tools with their FORTUS 3D Production System.
Intended as prototype, Digital Mechanics provides Fortus-produced robotic gripper to client through direct digital manufacturing. Design firm, Digital Mechanics, created a gripping/lifting device that was manufactured using a Fortus system. The part would have been time and cost prohibitive with conventional methods. This not only saved months of time, it also added a distinctive point of competitive differentiation and an important revenue stream.
BMW produces jigs and fixtures in hours, not weeks and reduces part weight by 72%. BMW speeds production by creating fabrication and assembly tools via direct digital manufacturing. No outsourced machining means the tools are produced in hours, not weeks. With an average automaker using over 400 assembly tools per vehicle, the money and time-savings potential is enormous.
Diebold cuts assembly and machining fixture time by 25% and reduces costs by 50%. Already a fan of Fortus 3D Production Systems for component production, Diebold put its FDM machine to work producing fixtures for its ATMs, electronic security and voting systems for a fraction of the time and cost of traditional machining. Product release is sped up and fixtures are produced to an accuracy of 0.0005 inch. Read Case Study | Download PDF
