Jeph Ruppert, Director, Application Innovation Group

Jeph Ruppert

Director, Application Innovation Group

Specialties:Medical Devices, Direct Metal Printing

Jeph Ruppert is a director with 3D Systems’ Application Innovation Group (AIG) – a team comprised of engineers, designers and technicians that collaborates with the company’s customers to architect bespoke additive manufacturing solutions and applications. Renowned for his expertise in process control, validation and characterization using metal AM within the medical device and other critical application industries, Jeph has supported the manufacture of more than 2 million medical devices to date and more than 100 customer 510(k) and CE marks. He is a key contributor to regulatory organizations, providing guidance which is helping to shape industry standards.

Stories from Jeph
3D Printed metal parts made from the DMP 350 printer

Achieving Productivity in Metal 3D Printing

In this short clip, our very own Jeph Ruppert introduces some of the unique productivity features of the DMP Flex and Factory 350 Dual. These mid-frame metal 3D printers deliver extremely dense, strong metal parts to an impressive Z-height of up to 4...
COVID-19 diagnostic swab in sterile packaging

3D Systems and America Makes Demonstrate Utility of Additive Manufacturing for Crisis Response Infrastructure

By Jeph Ruppert, Director, Application Innovation Group and Dustin Crouse, Application Innovation Group Development Engineer   Additive manufacturing has the unique ability to produce critically needed parts cost effectively and at a moment’s no...
At 3D Systems, we are focused on solving hard manufacturing problems with additive manufacturing solutions. We are focused on delivering solutions to high criticality applications. We believe that that the solution needs to be bespoke to the application journey as well as our customers’ journey in additive. What makes us unique is that we are not only a supplier of material, software, hardware, and services but we are key users as well. We live and breathe in the same industries and applications as our customers, allowing us to truly partner with them, remove risk and improve ROI.
—Jeph Ruppert, Director, Application Innovation Group, 3D Systems