3D Printing for Automotive

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

Optimize your cabin’s physical, functional, and visual experience. Without requiring expensive tooling, our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to create better concept car prototypes. You can make these with realistic texture and surface finishes that can be printed, plated, painted, and wrapped directly. Additionally, you can create innovations such as fastening systems and integrated latching to provide new design methods for manufacturing and service.

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

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

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 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)

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

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.