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Legacy Printing

At 3D Printing Manchester, we improve legacy parts management with Additive manufacturing.
Legacy parts of planes, trucks, and heavy equipment suffer wear and tear. This demands a readily available stream of parts specific to each model in service.
This has caused cases where providers are forced to store and manage decades of legacy parts inventories. This process is a difficult, stressful, and cost-ineffective way to support customers.
​It's for these reasons that we use 3D Printing design to solve companies' problems of how to access, manage, deliver, and maintain parts inventory.

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Legacy Additive Manufacturing

With 3D printing services Manchester, our 3D printer Manchester through additive manufacturing provides crucial benefits to our client’s companies relying on legacy parts;
The costs to manufacture and produce the number of parts needed to stock widely dispersed warehouses are immense. Along with the costly amount of production, companies must also manage the costs of transportation, storing, and ultimately delivering parts to customers. This can lead to a weak supply chain.
At 3D printing Manchester, with the help of our 3D printers, we can help eliminate these supply burdens and weak spots with the virtual warehousing of digital files, on-demand and local 3D printing facilities, and the elimination of costly physical inventories.
We are also committed to simplified production, elimination of risks, an extension of flexibility, and utmost customer satisfaction improvement.
3D printing service Manchester is committed to eliminating your supply chain burdens (high cost of production, transporting, and delivering parts) by the recreation of legacy parts.

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How to Fix On-Demand With 3D Printing

The logistics of transporting and distributing legacy parts Is not simple or straight-forward. How do you respond quickly when a critical component fails on a transport truck in a remote area? Or when a plane Is grounded at a small airport with limited access to repair facilities.
Our 3D printing service helps solve these problems that customers encounter in unexpected situations. We can quickly print 3D parts on-demand and send single items out quickly and effectively.

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3D Printing of Legacy Spare Parts Improves Time-to-Market

Customers expect us to meet their demands and respond to industry trends quickly and efficiently. Traditional manufacturing practices do not make it easy to be responsive and proactive and typically involves high volumes . With 3D printing service, you can quickly get to market, respond to industry shifts, and pivot quickly in response to customer feedback.
It’s time to change how you support and manage legacy parts. We can help you streamline your manufacturing capabilities, and improve them with 3D printing. We also use 3D printing to manufacture short-run prototypes, packaging, and tooling. 3D printing Manchester has made mass customization possible with our 3D printing, as we can help you creating a huge virtual inventory of spare parts. We have succeeded in improving company cash flow significantly who have adopting this approach.
At 3D printing Manchester, our experience with technologies and expertise permits you to transform from physical to digital warehousing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What 3D print files do you accept?

    The standard file type for a 3D image will be an STL file.  If you have another type please let us know or send it through and we can see if we can convert it and then run it through our 3D printing software which will enable us to know how much material will be required, how long it will take to print and as a result allow us to provide you with an accurate quote.

  • Is there a between 3D printing and additive manufacturing?

    The two terms are often used instead of each other and as a result, most people will take them to mean the same thing and as such exchange them as synonyms. However, taking literal definitions 3D printing is describing that 3D printing process is used which will form an object by printing layer upon layer of the material on top of each other whilst additive manufacturing is a wider term that describes any process which causes the material to be added together to create an object. So 3D printing is one type of additive manufacturing, others include electron-beam manufacturing and selective laser melting, which are much less common than 3D printing and as a result additive manufacturing is generally taken to mean 3D printing. Additive Manufacturing is used more frequently to refer to 3D printing in industrial and commercial environments and typically 3D printing machines, such s ours, cater for a much wider range of printing materials such as carbon fibre composites which will have more industrial uses.

  • What if I don't have a 3D file?

    No problem - in fact, it's quite common, especially for budding innovators. Our design team can take your 2D drawings or photos, or in the case of legacy parts a broken item and recreate it!

    We don't use 3D scanners as our experience of trialling these is that recreating our own files is more accurate and cost-efficient.

  • How large can you 3D print?

    Our commercial-grade printers can print items to the approximate size of a shoebox. This is the maximum size for a single print run. Whilst this will limit what can be produced we have on a number of occasions printed larger items by splitting the product into parts which then fit together to form a single larger item. The will not be applicable for all scenarios but again out design team can advise on whether or not this could be feasible for your particular item.