Vadatech has top-notch capabilities with 3D printing
With our AS9100-accredited manufacturing facilities, VadaTech is committed to providing agile production facilities and accelerated deployment for our clients’ custom solutions. But having the best versions of current equipment isn’t enough to keep our edge, so we’ve invested in the latest technologies to ensure that our facilities have top-notch capabilities.
Case in point is our 3D printer, a Stratasys Fortus 450mc, which manufactures custom components out of durable thermoplastic materials with unmatched accuracy, impressive turnaround time, and no waste. As the printers themselves become higher quality, manufacturers and industries are increasingly drawn to 3D printing because of its capability of producing very specialized components rapidly, at low cost, and without relying on economies of scale. 3D printers can also be used to create very complex designs that are extremely difficult or impossible to produce using traditional manufacturing methods. At VadaTech, our engineers have taken full advantage of 3D printing’s prototyping capabilities: for a recent project, they designed and printed an entire chassis subsystem. Fit testing the complex assembly before manufacturing parts enabled product deployment in revision A.
Granted, 3D printing is not known for being speedy—the chassis alone took three days of continuous printing to finish—but having a complete product after days of printing is astounding next to the nearly four weeks it would have taken to create the same chassis using conventional methods. With a 3D-printed product, modifications were also made in just a few days, providing massive reductions in time-to-market.
With its proven capabilities in mass customization and greatly accelerated deployment, we keep finding new ways to add 3D printing to our design and manufacturing processes. Is this level of innovation typical for our industry? Certainly not. But we’re technology leaders, and more than that, risk takers—and for us, the cutting edge is our every day.
Contact us to learn more about how your applications can benefit from the customization allowed by 3D printing.
