Partners
Antonius Koester GmbH & Co. KG
Since 1994, Antonius Koester GmbH & Co. KG, has offered services related to the manufacturing of models and mould making. Companies in numerous industries and trades utilize our services and benefit from our expertise to extend their possibilities and avoid capacity constraints.
Based on the philosophy of our company, all of our employees in the design department are qualified toolmakers or model makers. They apply their experience to their daily work. Because of our manufacturing experience and knowledge, we understand our client’s goals, can readily work with them, and can “speak the same language”.
Our CAD/CAM services are confidential in nature. The large number of accounts that turn to us regularly to help them reflects our top performance.
David Vision Systems
DAVID Vision Systems develops and produces hardware and software for laser and vision applications. In particular, 3D laser scanner technologies are one of their core competencies.
Their Vision: 3D scanning for everyone!
This is why they invented the DAVID-Laserscanner. A low-cost 3D laser scanner, which is affordable for everyone and offers an unbeatable price-performance ratio.
The Fab@Home Project
The Fab@Home Project is an open-source mass-collaboration developing personal fabrication technology aimed at bringing personal fabrication to your home. Members include those who use their abilities to develop novel hardware, software and uses for digital fabricators and those who simply use it to make unique items. The Community includes hundreds of engineers, inventors, artists, students, and hobbyists across six continents. Engage with the community by participating in our blogs and forums
Background
Hod Lipson and Evan Malone of the Cornell University Computational Synthesis Laboratory began Fab@Home project in 2006. Within one year, the Fab@Home website received 17,000,000 hits and the project received a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. For a more in-depth history, check out the Archived News and Project History pages of the wiki
FabLab Eindhoven
De term FabLab staat voor Fabrication Laboratory en is bedacht door Neil Gershenfeld van het Center for Bits and Atoms dat onderdeel is van het Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Een FabLab is een digitale werkplaats to make almost anything die gebruik maakt van een standaardset machines en open source software. Inmiddels is het initiatief uitgegroeid tot een wereldwijd netwerk. Ook in Nederland hebben steeds meer steden een FabLab, ieder met eigen accenten afhankelijk van lokale omstandigheden.
De generatie die zich met dit soort zaken bezighoudt is er een die vanuit een Do It Yourself en Do It Together mentaliteit en een garagebox mondiaal weet te opereren én als engineer én als ontwerper én als nerd én als ambachtsman én als ondernemer. Het boek Makers van Cory Doctorow gaat over het reilen en zeilen van zo’n groep Makers of Things.
GrabCAD
GrabCAD is a community founded by mechanical engineers. It is also a place for engineers to share their talent, expand knowledge, find a dream project and work with tools and features that make life better. Our HQ is located in Boston, MA with the development team in Estonia.
netfabb
We are a provider of Additive Manufacturing software solutions. With our products netfabb Studio, netfabb Structure, netfabb Engines and netfabb Cloud we cover everything you need for Additive Manufacturing.
Location
We are located in Parsberg, Germany, close to Nuremberg.
History and Background
Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping technologies have improved tremendously over the past years and are used increasingly for machine tools and series production. Our team has more than 15 years of experience with these technologies and founded netfabb GmbH in 2009.
Together with our mother company, FIT GmbH, we have access to a huge machine park of laser sintering, electron beam melting and 3D printing technologies in both metal and plastic.
Impact
netfabb’s Selective Space Structures and the tree story have been huge attractions at trade fairs. They demonstrate our potential for innovations and our ability to get the very best out of Additive Manufacturing technologies. We started using structures to improve part attributes in 2004. Since then, this has been adopted by many companies in the industry and has played a major role in the continuing rise of Additive Manufacturing.
Our software suite netfabb Studio Professional, combined with Professional tools, netfabb Engines and netfabb Cloud solutions, has enabled a wider and easier access to Additive Manufacturing software than ever before and provides companies with a common software platform with tailored software packages at every seat.
Protospace
ProtoSpace is méér dan een standaard laboratorium, waar gebruikers ideeën kunnen omzetten naar concrete producten. Het Lab is gebaseerd op het FabLab-concept van MIT hoogleraar Neil Gershenfeld. Wij zijn toegankelijk voor velen, vijf dagen in de week. Op speciale dagen kunt u bovendien één van onze werkruimtes huren om in alle vrijheid nieuwe prototypes te ontwikkelen. Hiervoor hebben wij een labrooster opgesteld. De uitstekende begeleiding door onze labmanagers en een state-of the-art machinepark staan garant voor een professionele dienstverlening. ProtoSpace biedt maatwerk, stelt zich beschikbaar als kenniscentrum en brengt ontmoetingen tot stand tussen ontwerpers, uitvinders, kunstenaars, studenten en onderwijsinstellingen in het midden van Nederland.
Shapeways
Shapeways is the online marketplace where everyone can create, buy or sell their own products (using 3D printing).
At Shapeways you can create your own products in a variety of high-quality materials such as plastics, stainless steel, bronze, glass, ceramics and sterling silver, using the latest in 3D printing technology.
3D Printing has proven itself as a high-quality production technique, but up to now has always been very expensive. By creating a large community we are able to produce much more efficiently, resulting in affordable prices for you.
Our vibrant community of close to 100,000 members creates their own products, support each other with their projects and sell their work in Shapeways Shops. Many designers have been able to successfully start up their own businesses, built on Shapeways.
Are YOU ready to get started with your own personal production?
TNO
TNO is a well known name in the world of 3D printing or Additive Manufacturing. Since 2000 we are active in the development of new processes and equipment for Additive Manufacturing. With support of our material department we are able to develop fundamentally new AM concepts. Our technological focus is on µSLA based systems and inkjet based systems. In the development of these systems we work close together with local partners and customers. With a strong patent portfolio on both µSLA as inkjet technology we are a preferred institute for many companies for the development of application specific AM systems.
Contact person: Krista Polle, krista.polle@tno.nl, +31 88 86 65657, www.tno.nl/rm
Vienna University of Technology
Technology for People
Our mission is „technology for people“. Through our research we „develop scientific excellence“,
through our teaching we „enhance comprehensive competence“.
The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is located in the heart of Europe, in a cosmopolitan city of great cultural diversity. For nearly 200 years, the TU Vienna has been a place of research, teaching and learning in the service of progress. The TU Vienna is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and is Austria’s largest scientific-technical research and educational institution.
Institute of Materials Science and Technology
Presently, more than 50 researchers from several countries are working at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology in various applied and basic research projects.
Research at the Institute covers the entire spectrum of engineering materials going from metallic materials to polymers and ceramics and composite materials. Strong emphasis in our work is laid on experimental investigation of materials behavior, however, accompanied by sound physical modeling of the microstructure evolution during processing and service.
The Institute is responsible for the education in the field of materials science, with students from Chemical and Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Business Science, as well as Materials Science.
Ultimaker
The Ultimaker is a new 3D-printer that can print objects out of thermoplastics like ABS and PLA.
Assembling the unit – though requiring some dedication and love – does not require special skills.
The 3D printing process
The Ultimaker has a square frame, with a horizontally moveable printhead and a vertically movable build table, an XYZ movement also known as a ‘Cartesian bot’.
The heated printhead (the Extruder) will deposit a layer of molten plastic on the build table. Then the build table lowers a fraction of a milimeter along the Z-axis and the printhead will deposit a new layer that fuses with the previous one. The table lowers again for the next layer and so on.
The PLA and ABS comes in many different colors.
Objects of roughly 21 x 21 x 22 centimeters can be printed in the Ultimaker.
VDM kunststoftechniek
VDM kunststoftechniek is gespecialiseerd in het 3D printen van objecten die moeten voldoen aan een hoge nauwkeurigheid en een gladde oppervlakte structuur. Maattoleranties van minder dan 0,1 mm, wanddikten van 0,3 mm over grotere oppervlakten zijn mogelijk. Wij werken met de technologie van Envisiontec.
Het basismateriaal waarmee geprint wordt is Acryl, dit maakt het mogelijk dat geprinte objecten eenvoudig gelakt kunnen worden. Door het materiaal een warmtebehandeling te geven kan de temperatuurbestendigheid en materiaalsterkte aangepast worden. VDM is gespecialiseerd in “internal channelling” , het realiseren van koelkanalen in de print.
VDM werkt voor de Technische Universiteiten, de professionele maquettebouwer, industrie en kunstenaars/ontwerpers/vormgevers.
VDM wil zich als 3D printservice onderscheiden door intensief contact met de opdrachtgever om een zo goed mogelijk resultaat neer te zetten.
FabLab Zuid-Limburg
Het oprichten en ter beschikking stellen van een laagdrempelige werkplaats voor het vervaardigen van 2D en 3D-producten (prototypes, kunstuitingen etc). Hiervoor worden computergestuurde machines als lasersnijders, 3D-frezen, 3D-printers, 3Dscanners, vinylsnijders en mallenmakers gebruikt.
Doelgroepen:
- kunstenaars / creatieve ondernemers
- onderwijs (van basis onderwijs tot universitair)
- uitvinders / MKB
- iedereen die belangstelling in techniek en creativiteit heeft
Producten & diensten: (1 dag per week gratis)
- verhuur werkplekken
- trainingen in bediening software en machines
- workshops bouwen van machines
- maatwerkevenementen en ontbijtsessies of lunchmeetingen met presentaties
- kleine of eenmalige producties maken
- projectmanagement
- PR voor derden
- research
- consultancy