Hermann-Oberth-Straße 21
85640 Putzbrunn

Germany

Services: Rapid Prototyping

Services in Detail:

Protolabs is the world-leading digital manufacturing source for custom prototypes and low-volume production parts. The technology-enabled company uses advanced 3D printing, CNC machining and injection moulding technologies to produce parts within days. The result is an unprecedented speed-to-market value for product designers and engineers worldwide.

Aspects:

• An automated quoting system and proprietary software translate digital 3D CAD models into instructions for high-speed
manufacturing equipment by creating a digital twin of the desired part. The result is parts that are produced in a fully
digitalized fashion and shipped in 1 to 15 days.

• The company is anchored by three flagship services: injection moulding, CNC machining and 3D printing (additive
manufacturing).

• Injection moulding is used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts
as well as for end of life parts at lower volume. More than 100 thermoplastics resins, metal and liquid silicone rubber
are offered.

• Protolabs uses three and five-axis indexed milling and turning to machine engineering-grade plastic and metal
prototypes and functional end-use parts in quantities of less than 200.

• Additive manufacturing employs advanced 3D printing technologies that can create extremely accurate prototypes with
complex geometries. Additive parts are built by stereolithography, selective laser sintering, Multi Jet Fusion, PolyJet and
direct metal laser sintering processes, and in a range a plastics and metals.

Protolabs is the world-leading digital manufacturing source for custom prototypes and low-volume production parts. The technology-enabled company uses advanced 3D printing, CNC machining and injection moulding technologies to produce parts within days. The result is an unprecedented speed-to-market value for product designers and engineers worldwide.