Cost control, 30 micron accuracy, and one-day turnaround — Centric Laboratories in Grand Rapids, Mich., had been serving dentistry with high-end cosmetic and restorative solutions for about 29 years when it decided to make the move to a digital practice, which is helping its business continue to...
A variety of EnvisionTEC 3D printers play a crucial role in keeping large dental lab competitive — Over the years, there have been several pivotal moments when Don Albensi, CEO at Albensi Laboratories in Pittsburgh, thought his business was on the verge of extinction. A new, disruptive technology...
Before he got into 3D printing, Dr. Cosmo Haralambidis — known as Dr. Cosmo — researched the machines for about two years. In his 17-plus years in practice, Dr. Cosmo has always run a progressive, high-tech, full-service orthodontics practice for adults and children. For example, he...
Ohio orthodontist offers better patient experience by taking digital impressions, developing virtual treatment plans and 3D printing dental models In the October 2016 issue of Orthotown, Roy Scott, DDS, gets specific about how his business has been transformed by going digital, sharing actual cost data. He...
Dan Dement has been in the jewelry business for nearly fifty years, the last sixteen making custom jewelry for customers at his Stone Oak Jewelers store in San Antonio. Being in Texas, Stone Oak specializes in bling. “Very few of our rings have fewer than 200 stones...
Dr. Edward Lin serves on boards for SureSmile, American Orthodontics, the American Association of Orthodontics Committee On Technology, Imaging Sciences, OrthoTown and Orthodontic Practice. Today, when it comes to 3D printers, Lin said, “We only use EnvisionTEC.” Dr. Edward Lin of Orthodontic Specialists of Green Bay...
EnvisionTEC produces superior and precise 3D printers for many different industry sectors and a wide range of applications. One such application is the development of production tools – for which accurate 3D printing is an ideal fit as demonstrated by VDM Kunststoftechniek....
Tom Castermans saw a project using 3D printing create a race car a quarter the size of the original and decided to do one better. Using an EnvisionTEC 3D printer, he challenged himself to recreate the same model at 1/43rd of the size....
The family company takes its name from talented founder Grant Macdonald who now works with his equally talented son George. Grant was first introduced to the Perfactory additive manufacturing system in 2003 through his connections with the Goldsmiths Livery Company....
One of the first – and still most successful – applications of 3D printing is within the New Product Development (NPD) process. This case study illustrates how Korean company, Dorco, has saved time and money by employing an EnvisionTEC ULTRA 3D printer for design verification....
In order to keep up with its strong heritage while also having a mind for the future, Cleveland Golf invested in additive manufacturing during the early millennium. EnvisionTEC spoke with Dan Nivanh, research and development engineer at Cleveland Golf, who is responsible for running the...
When it came to choosing a business model, one that made the most of a manufacturing process while optimizing sales, Jewlr wanted the best solution possible. Creating a customized, online shopping experience with detailed attention to customers is their forte, and it has paid off!...
When alternative technologies are not capable of the detail required for his custom project, Rein van der Mast uses EnvisionTEC’s machine for the answer. What followed was an interesting little project. Last year I made me a monogram. It had to become the ‘knot’ of...
Lewis Jewelers was at a loss when a tornado destroyed their Oklahoma workshop — and years of master molds. EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory Aureus has helped them convert the aftermath of destruction into a new design process....
When it came to choosing a business model, one that made the most of a manufacturing process while optimizing sales, Jewlr wanted the best solution possible. Creating a customized, online shopping experience with detailed attention to customers is their forte, and it has paid off!...
Designing in 3D permits countless opportunities to non-destructively explore variations or make changes according to each client’s individual needs. It’s one thing to design jewelry in the virtual world of the computer but to transition it into the real-world requires another crucial component, the machine...
Last year Bosmans made the decision to bring this service in house to ensure that all clients’ designs remained wholly within the company’s control, and started looking for a fast, highly accurate and cost-effective 3D printing solution that would meet the company’s needs....
When Scherz Dental started to work with 3Shape´s Trios Scanners in 2013, they examined several options to organize the digital model production according to the needs of dentists and patients. Starting with milled models first, Scherz Dental soon came to realize that the demand of...
3D Printing is an extremely valuable tool in the product development process for a wide range of applications. A key industry sector is orthodontics as exemplified by Orthoproof, a company that uses two EnvisionTEC ULTRA 3D printers to produce patterns and tools....
The computer-aided design processes that go hand-in-hand with 3D printing often excise one or more steps associated with traditional techniques. But 3D printing also provides solutions that wouldn’t be achievable without the holistic process of additive manufacturing by EnvisionTEC....