
The FZ Additive Manufacturing process
This workflow allows our customers to efficiently access the strategic benefits of Premium Additive Manufacturing
Reduce inventory
- No minimum order quantity required
- Allows real just-in-time manufacturing
- Allows spare parts manufacturing on-demand
- Minimal tooling inventory required
- Lower number of sub-components where merging of parts can be applied.
Inscrease speed to market
- Reduced lead times in production launch due to minimal tooling requirements.
- Increase speed of product development cycles with fast manufacturing, and iterations, of premium fully functional prototypes.
- Rapid deployment of single or mass production manufacturing.
Reduce Waste
- Precise quantity of materials for manufacturing.
- Minimum quantity of energy consumed.
- Minimum quantity of raw material used.
- Minimized risk of human error.
Produce stronger and lighter parts
- Eliminate many engineering design constraints for manufacturing.
- Allows maximised strength at minimal volume of material.
- Gives access to exotic engineering materials at lower costs.
Lower emissions
- Minimum quantity of energy consumed.
- Precise quantity of materials for manufacturing.
- Allows breakthrough designs of ecofriendly sustainable systems.
- Significant impact in lowering manufacturing emissions compare to traditional methods.
- Reduce carbon footprint.
Improve efficiency
- Enables topology optimizations for high efficiency designs and systems.
- Allows high performance components with increased mechanical properties.
- Superior life cycle of products.
Eliminate costly tooling
- No tools needed for 3D manufacturing processes.
- Few fixtures, jigs and consumables required for post-processing and control.
Enable mass customization
- Allows the possibility to manufacture mass, or small batch, customized products at no additional cost.
- Possibility of multiple customized components in a single production cycle.
Manufacture geometries and complex architectures that could not be created before
- Allows topology optimisation.
- Can lead to free-form structures that were not feasible with conventional manufacturing.
- Consolidate design and improve reliability versus assembly of multiple components.
- Design and manufacture with limited constraints.
Now onboarding the FZ paradigm shift.