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Pancakes during production

No More Pancake Waste! How AM Transformed Bakery Production Lines of a Favorite Food

Solutions: Build Processor, Magics

Pancake production lines were experiencing issues with waste before K3D stepped in. See how K3D combined its expertise with robust software from Materialise and industrial printers from Additive Industries to transform bakery production lines.

Gold Standard for Jewelry Design with 3D Printing Software

Gold Standard for Jewelry Design with 3D Printing Software

Immaculate Creations was struggling with various data and build prep challenges such as excessive manual labor and build crashes. By introducing specialized 3D printing software, their team greatly increased productivity and, therefore, quickly scaled up. 

How Materialise Software Solutions Helped to Create the World’s Largest Jet Engine

How Materialise Software Solutions Helped to Create the World’s Largest Jet Engine

The GE9X, the largest jet engine in the world developed for Boeing’s next-generation 777X jets, took its maiden flight on the GE flying testbed in March 2018. Discover how its crucial 3D-printed turbine parts were created using Materialise software solutions, and how these same solutions can power certified series manufacturing in Industry 4.0.

Lipstick Gripper

94% Lighter, 50% Cheaper, and More Performant – Optimizing a Suction Gripper Design for Metal 3D Printing

Solutions: Magics, Metal Production

Production tools are one of the applications where additive manufacturing truly shines. By optimizing the design of this suction gripper for 3D printing, Materialise reduced the manufacturing costs per gripper by half.

Philip Buchholz, process engineer

Digital, Interconnected, and Automated: 3D Printer Control for Industry 4.0

Solutions: Magics 3D Print Suite, Streamics

Since it opened in April 2016, Materialise’s production site for metal 3D printing in Bremen has expanded to include more new 3D metal printers. Materialise Streamics software ensures optimum, cost-saving management of the printers and the orders completed with them. Process engineer Philip Buchholz explains how Streamics has been modified to meet requirements from a growing pool of printers to diverse customer needs.

Raging Heroes

Raging Heroes Fight Support Generation Time with Materialise e-Stage

Solutions: e-stage, Stereolithography

Raging Heroes is a company based in France that creates collectible miniatures based on their own characters and worlds. These are sold all around the world to collectors, gamers and painters and are recognized as some of the best in the industry. But how does Raging Heroes reach such an amazing level of detail at a tiny scale?

Titanium metal 3D Printing

Titanium Inserts for Spacecraft: 66% Lighter with Metal 3D Printing

Solutions: 3-matic, Metal 3D Printing

Weight optimization is crucial in the quest to lower the cost per kilogram launched into space. Discover how Atos and Materialise combined their expertise to reinvent a widely used titanium component, creating a part that is lighter, more durable, and offers improved load distribution.

OSSTEM IMPLANT Brings Dental Care to the Next Level

OSSTEM IMPLANT Brings Dental Care to the Next Level

Solutions: Magics

Today, human beings live longer than ever before. With a growing elderly population, healthcare, including dental care, has become increasingly important. OSSTEM IMPLANT, a leading dental implant manufacturer, has introduced 3D printing technology into their workflow.

All Hands on Deck for this Glorious Galleon

All Hands on Deck for this Glorious Galleon

Solutions: Magics

‘De Zeven Provinciën’ was a grand Dutch ship from the 17th century, around 45 m long, armed with 80 guns and a crew of 420 men. & designshop, a studio in the Netherlands, was assigned to 3D print a massive 1.5 m long replica, presenting the full glory and historical value of the galleon.

Aircraft wiring

Organizing Meters of Aircraft Wiring: Fokker Elmo’s Cable Twist Wheels

Solutions: 3-matic, Certified Additive Manufacturing

Fokker Elmo specializes in solutions to keep the immense wiring of an aircraft clear and manageable before and during installation. With clever 3D-printed assembly tools, Fokker Elmo keeps its production routing process organized, even when handling hundreds of meters of wiring.

Nanyang Polytechnic Streamlines its AM Production Process

Nanyang Polytechnic Streamlines its AM Production Process

Solutions: Magics, Streamics

Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) has been driving 3D printing innovation and adoption in Asia for 20 years with their Additive Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC). To manage and sustain their Additive Manufacturing process, AMIC has established a partnership with Materialise.

3D Printing Acoustic Interiors

The PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car: 3D Printing Acoustic Interiors

Solutions: Build Processor, Laser Sintering, Streamics

PEUGEOT was in quest of the perfect concept car: a fully-electric urban coupé wrapped up in sleek aesthetics — but above all, it had to sound perfect. To create an anechoic chamber in the car’s interior, and maximize the effect of the sound system, PEUGEOT turned to laser sintering.