Fortus 3D Production systems from Stratasys are leading manufacturers worldwide in the growing field of Direct Digital Manufacturing.
Direct Digital Manufacturing is widely considered to be the new frontier for manufacturing in the 21st century. Companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and BMW are just some of the names who have taken Direct Digital Manufacturing to heart and are using Fortus 3D Production Systems across a full range of applications within their organisations.
The major advantages provided by Direct Digital Manufacturing include the ability to significantly reduce delivery times and costs, while allowing highly innovative solutions to design.
Direct Digital Manufacturing is lowering the barriers for a wide range of organisations to an even wider range of applications. Processes and applications that have traditionally being considered too timely, too expensive, and too difficult, are now feasible. An example of such an application is the development of soluble core composite tooling using Fortus 3D Production Systems, which allows designers to develop complex geometries for composite material products.
Fortus 3D Production Systems are leading the development of Direct Digital Manufacturing due to their ability to process a full range of engineering thermoplastics with large build sizes, fast throughput and the highest levels of repeatability and accuracy.
The large range of thermoplastics that can be processed on Fortus 3D Production Systems allow users to aggregate their use across a full range of applications.
A single customer can utilise one machine for the initial product development and the building of concept models. The same machine can then be used to build fully functional prototypes for focus groups and target customers in the field as well as for tooling masters for processes such as investment casting, or applications like composite material tools, PS or PU. The customer can then build jigs and fixtures used in the manufacturing of the final product, and then finally the end user parts, possibly replacing injection moulded parts.
All of the above tasks can be completed in significantly reduced times and costs, when compared with traditional methods.
Fortus 3D Production Systems are allowing companies to increase their productivity, reduce costs, and increase profits, all while allowing them to innovate across their entire organisations in ways and means that were previously not possible.
Fortus 3D Production Systems are available from Tasman Machinery .