UK-based automotive manufacturing company Dunlop Systems and Components used Markforged 3D printers to produce custom tooling for the facility, saving tens of thousands of dollars.

Internal and customer tools would often be outsourced to third-party vendors, and the slightest change would result in significant delays.

“You spend all that money and you wait two or three weeks for it to come in, and the customer then phones you up to tell you what they want changed,” says Mark Statham, Production and Engineering Manager at Dunlop Systems and Components.

This would, in turn, cause Statham’s team to become a bottleneck. After witnessing the abilities of the Markforged desktop printer, Statham was inspired. “As soon as I saw what the printers could do I thought, why can’t we do our own tooling?” says Statham. Prototype tooling for the beta electric vehicle. Since purchasing the printer, the division has seen an increase […]

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