3D Printing for Automotive
BUILD AND VALIDATE HIGH-QUALITY PARTS FASTER
Print and validate high-quality parts faster than before
58%
fewer development costs for critical systems
10x
acceleration of product development projects
50%
less weight/inertia of the drive shaft
Meet the Challenge of Rapid Innovation in Today’s Automotive Industry
New mobility solutions and ecosystems are redefining the industry and making rapid innovation essential.
Our consultative approach to engineering and additive manufacturing technology can give you the competitive advantage you need to meet this challenge. We will empower you to drive manufacturing productivity, lower costs, and develop new designs that optimize performance and create the unique experiences your customers demand.
Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry
Underhood / Powertrain
Underhood / Powertrain
Optimize the performance of propulsion, drivetrain, and surrounding components through rapid iteration while meeting high-temperature and flame-resistant requirements. Our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to produce durable 3D-printed parts quickly, helping you gain a competitive advantage and protect your intellectual property.
Body Interior and Trim
Body Interior and Trim
Create metal components that strike a careful balance between low weight and high strength to better manage the extreme forces encountered in a motorsports environment.
Following our additive manufacturing expertise, you can quickly design and produce metal structural parts that reduce weight, increase efficiency, and achieve strict dimensional accuracy. Quickly create and test multiple part iterations to enhance productivity and maximize structural performance.
Body Exterior and Panel
Body Exterior and Panel
Our broad portfolio of durable materials enables you to produce rigid exterior panels for concept car components that don’t deform over large surfaces. This capability allows you to direct air where it’s needed, reduce drag, and ultimately maximize aerodynamic performance while maintaining precise control over Class A exterior style. Sensory mounts can also be added, giving you a unique and innovative way to collect additional analytics.
Metal Structural Components
Metal Structural Components
Create high-performance structural systems by leveraging an accurate and efficient 3D printing process, allowing you to produce lightweight parts and reduce inertia while increasing overall strength. Further enhance your manufacturing process with access to a wide range of metal alloys, enabling you to leverage efficient and effective post-processing and cleaning.
Air and Fluid Handling
Air and Fluid Handling
Optimize fluid management to maximize the use of valuable package space. With our innovative air and fluid handling solutions, you can produce complex geometries that represent design intent and test them to validate component and system performance. Your parts not only allow for valuable concept evaluation but will also withstand environmental extremes and the pressures and flows while providing the chemical compatibility and stability needed over time.
Manufacturing Aids
Manufacturing Aids
Manufacturing aids like robot grippers, jigs, fixtures, and locators are required to perform reliably in a challenging environment. These items are subjected to forces, wear, and chemicals that stress some additive materials and technologies.
Components are often tailored but also modified, stressing traditional tool making and inventory systems. With our additive solutions for manufacturing aids, you can save time, money, and labor by tailoring tools such as jigs, fixtures, grippers, and locators to improve the overall assembly process, withstand the working conditions, while allowing operations to optimize replacements kept on hand.
Energy and Fluid Management (Metals)
Energy and Fluid Management (Metals)
Maximize the performance of fluid and energy management with our metal additive manufacturing solutions. You can create strong, corrosive-resistant streamlined metal components that optimize energy, flow, and heat in your propulsion systems. The components produced with our solutions handle high temperatures, harsh conditions, and various fluids—while easily fitting in constrained spaces.
Metal Durable Tooling
Metal Durable Tooling
Create durable tools such as injection mold and die-cast tool inserts that perform in ways unachievable with traditional tool making, and build them in a fraction of the time. Advanced tools with innovations like conformal cooling often necessitate innovative production methods to deliver quality parts at production volume. With the short lead times of 3D-printed durable tooling, you can accelerate the iteration and innovation of these advanced tools.