MANUFACTURING
On the manufacturing line efficiency is the name of the game. Increase quality while decreasing time and cost. MakerBot 3D printers can be found in manufacturing settings from machine shops to the floors of assembly plants.
Hear the stories of manufacturing professionals like you, who are using 3D printing today and learn how you can incorporate this transformative technology into your manufacturing facility.
Produce easy and affordable jigs & fixtures for the assembly line
Every good manufacturing line is always optimizing to increase efficiency and quality, while decreasing employee strain and fatigue. 3D printing allows manufacturing engineers like you to quickly design jigs and fixtures to make your teams more effective. Then get feedback, iterate on your design, and print another. If a fixture breaks or a gauge goes missing - just print another.
Design strong, light-weight end of arm tools with composites
When it comes to robotic automation with end of arm tools, payload management is the name of the game. With 3D printable composite materials, you can design custom end effectors with maximum stiffness and minimum weight so you can get more out of your robotic arm.
Reverse engineer and print hard to source replacement parts
Sourcing parts and tools is always challenging, but in today’s world of supply chain delays and skyrocketing costs, the hill has never been steeper. 3D printing allows you to redesign and print replacement parts in manufacturing grade materials - helping you bridge the supply chain gap.
Hear the stories of manufacturing professionals like you, who are using 3D printing today and learn how you can incorporate this transformative technology into your manufacturing facility.
Produce easy and affordable jigs & fixtures for the assembly line
Every good manufacturing line is always optimizing to increase efficiency and quality, while decreasing employee strain and fatigue. 3D printing allows manufacturing engineers like you to quickly design jigs and fixtures to make your teams more effective. Then get feedback, iterate on your design, and print another. If a fixture breaks or a gauge goes missing - just print another.
Design strong, light-weight end of arm tools with composites
When it comes to robotic automation with end of arm tools, payload management is the name of the game. With 3D printable composite materials, you can design custom end effectors with maximum stiffness and minimum weight so you can get more out of your robotic arm.
Reverse engineer and print hard to source replacement parts
Sourcing parts and tools is always challenging, but in today’s world of supply chain delays and skyrocketing costs, the hill has never been steeper. 3D printing allows you to redesign and print replacement parts in manufacturing grade materials - helping you bridge the supply chain gap.
How top manufacturing professionals are streamlining production with METHOD
All Axis Robotics
“One of the interesting things about our shop is that right next to our million-dollar machines on the production floor is a MakerBot METHOD, which is about $6,500. And it’s that $6,500 machine that is able to keep our million-dollar machines running.”
Gary Kuzmin - President and CEO
How top manufacturing professionals are streamlining production with METHOD
All Axis
“One of the interesting things about our shop is that right next to our million-dollar machines on the production floor is a MakerBot METHOD, which is about $6,500. And it’s that $6,500 machine that is able to keep our million-dollar machines running.”
Gary Kuzmin - President and CEO
Gary Kuzmin is the president and CEO of All Axis Machining and All Axis Robotics - a multi-disciplinary metal fabricator manufacturing company based in Dallas, TX. All-axis is at the forefront of machine automation, utilizing robotic arms and METHOD X 3D printers to support their million dollar CNC machines - allowing them to produce complex metal parts with peak efficiency.
Dual gripper end effector attachment
Printer: METHOD X
Material: ABS
Print Time: 18h 19m
Two way extractor
Printer: METHOD X
Material: NYLON
Print Time: 21h 34m
Gary Kuzmin is the president and CEO of All Axis Machining and All Axis Robotics - a multi-disciplinary metal fabricator manufacturing company based in Dallas, TX. All-axis is at the forefront of machine automation, utilizing robotic arms and METHOD X 3D printers to support their million dollar CNC machines - allowing them to produce complex metal parts with peak efficiency.
KUKA
“Our printer’s working nearly 24 hours. In 2016 we printed nearly 7,000 hours with only one printer - we had a success rate of 92%. To us it’s very important that a 3D printer is reliable.”
Thomas Schmidberger
Thomas Schmidberger is an applications engineer at KUKA Robotics. At KUKA he is charged with designing and printing both product prototypes and manufacturing assembly fixtures for their industry-leading robotic arms. On the applications engineering team they are constantly pushing the envelope of robotic end effectors and their MakerBot 3D printer allows them to quickly develop and implement new designs and parts within hours or days.
Automated Robotic Arm
Printer: Z18
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 180h
End effector anchor
Printer: Z18
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 18h 27m
KUKA
“Our printer’s working nearly 24 hours. In 2016 we printed nearly 7,000 hours with only one printer - we had a success rate of 92%. To us it’s very important that a 3D printer is reliable.”
Thomas Schmidberger
Pfizer
“We’ve got a ways to go to push the limits of [the METHOD] and try out its full capabilities, but so far it’s really meeting our needs and there’s a lot of potential to build more use cases down the line."
Lane Milde - Pfizer
Lane Milde is a laboratory automation scientist at Pfizer. One of Lane’s jobs is to create an robotic solution that manages and picks from millions of unique compounds in their compound stores. These compounds will be tested in thousands of combinations to ultimately yield a single FDA drug. Using METHOD, Lane is able to produce custom plates, fixtures and other components that allow Pfizer to drastically streamline their drug research and development process.
Pfizer
“We’ve got a ways to go to push the limits of [the METHOD] and try out its full capabilities, but so far it’s really meeting our needs and there’s a lot of potential to build more use cases down the line."
Lane Milde - Pfizer
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