Production Services Management Inc. operates tool cribs in over 250 industrial manufacturing sites for the likes of GM, Ford, Eaton, John Deere, Paragon Medical, and more. Like a lot of other shops, PSMI used to endure high costs and long lead times for one-off replacement parts, tooling, and molds for its customers.

That changed when PSMI adopted additive manufacturing via 3D printing. The company could have picked any printer, but after a comprehensive review of industrial 3D printers, they chose RIZE. PSMI liked its safe process and materials that enable it to be used in their customers’ plants, most of whom have strict safety and compliance standards.

The company also benefits from the following features of RIZE printers:

• Best-in-class Z strength
• Parts need minimal post-processing, saving time and money: supports peel away with no additional chemicals required.
• Superior layer adhesion
• Automatic filament swap feature simplifies supplies management for uninterrupted printing.
• Print parts in full color with RIZIUM inks, and/or voxel-level QR codes, text, images and part numbers on them.
• Locking cover prevents worker injury and complies with regulatory safety standards.
• Digitally encoded consumable cartridges ensure the correct print process parameters are applied to every print job.

It wasn’t long before PSMI started saving time and money by 3D printing molds, fixtures, and one-off parts—and building customer loyalty in the process.

Dramatic Cost Savings with RIZE 3D

When a customer needed a mold with an unusual geometry for a polypropylene seal, PSMI had the 3D-printed part ready for testing in one day at a cost of $30 vs. $4,000 and six-eight weeks for a machined mold.

PSMI 3D printed a drilling template for a customer that makes tooling, gages, CMM fixtures and machine details. The template was done in less than two hours and, thanks to RIZE’s inks for full-color 3D printing, PSMI also added the inventory number on the part.

Fixtures used to hold stamping components at an automotive OEM were made using traditional manufacturing. When the supplier went out of business, PSMI reverse-engineered the fixtures and 3D printed them in less than 48 hours. They were able to eliminate shelves stocked with this type of tooling and replace it with a new system, “take one, make one,” reducing costs by 70 percent per part.

PSMI slashed costs and lead times, eliminated the need for inventory, and used RIZE’s ability to print on parts. Why not your shop?