Direct Digital Manufacturing
Full Spectrum of Industrial 3D Printers, Materials Quality System to Meet the most demanding digital manufacturing needs
On-Demand 3D Printing:
PADT has offered industry-leading 3D printing service for over 25 years. We can print your prototype or production parts using industrial additive manufacturing technologies. We are your one-stop-shop for precision 3D printed parts at a competitive price.
SLA Additive Technology
- High resolution, fine feature details
- Smooth surface finish
- Complex geometries
- Water clear material
- Large form and fit models
- Good mechanical and thermal Properties
FDM Additive Technology
- 15+ Production grade thermoplastics
- High strength materials with excellent mechanical and thermal properties
- Materials with good ESD properties
- Excellent chemical resistant materials
- Flexible TPU material
- Excellent for tooling, fixture, functional prototype and End-use parts
- Part size up to 36 inches
P3 (DLP) Additive Technology
- Wide range of engineering grade photopolymer materials
- Smooth surface finish
- Complex geometries
- Fast turnaround time; good for low volume production
- Excellent mechanical and thermal Properties
SLS Additive Technology
- Nylon 11 and Nylon 12 Glass Filled materials
- Durable, High impact properties
- Large size capacity
- Direct printing of functioning assemblies
- Good heat resistant properties
LCDP Additive Technology
- High resolution, fine feature details
- Smooth surface finish
- Complex geometries
- Fast throughput
- Large form and fit models
- Good mechanical properties
SAF Additive Technology
- Nylon 11 in Gray Color
- Excellent mechanical thermal properties
- Excellent dimension accuracy
- High capacity for production end-use parts
- Parts can be dyed with other colors
Polyjet Additive Technology
- Digital materials from flexible to rigid
- Smooth Surface Finish
- Complex Geometries with fine feature details
- Water Clear and multi-color material
- Simulate overmolding
- Ideal for fine details
- and smooth and textured surfaces
DMLS Additive Technology
- High Resolution, Fine Feature Details
- Wide range of materials
- Complex geometries with lattice structures and internal passages
- Good Mechanical properties
- Fully dense metal parts
Resin Casting (Urethane, epoxy and Silicone)
- Production quality parts
- Wide range of materials simulate production material
- Clear, color and texture are available
- Fast turnaround time.
Case Studies
Energetic: The magic of turbine machinery
Using 3D optical scanning to reverse engineer industrial turbine spare parts
Meet Johan, director of Energetic Machinery in Belgium, and experience his passion for industrial steam turbines. Their company repairs and replaces turbomachinery components. They use optical 3D Scanning to capture existing geometry and reverse engineer replacement parts or plan their refurbishment. The portable nature of the GOM and ZEISS optical scanners allows them to go to the customer site accurately capture geometry.
Energetic Machinery is a classic example of how manufacturing companies across industries leverage #HandsOnMetrology to drive their reverse engineering efforts.
Cowboy: E-bikes for urban riders
3D scanning helps in the creation of perfectly flush frames and in complex assemblies.
Meet Olivier from E-bike manufacturer Cowboy in Brussels. The company’s aim is to manufacture urban mobility solutions that offer amazing design, seamless usage, and affordability. At cowboy, they are pushing the boundaries of design, including a completely flush assembly even though it consists of different components. To achieve the precision they need, they leverage the power of 3D Scanning to capture their complex surface. That information is used to improve the design and make quick design iterations.
UK School Teaches 21st Century Skills with Makerbot 3D Printers
When we bought the Replicator series, it gave students more exposure to the technology, which resulted in increased interest and use.
Preparing students with the knowledge, skills, and resilience to embrace their future has always been at the crux of Abingdon School, an independent day and boarding school for boys, in Oxfordshire, England.
The school’s Design and Technology department offers a range of product design courses that aim to develop students’ technical knowledge and proficiencies. 3D modeling and design are taught alongside traditional manufacturing methods using woods, metals, and polymers.
Lockheed Martin Taps Makerbot 3D Printers for Next Space Project
Lockheed Martin Space uses METHOD X to create parts for the lunar rover project, enabling the engineers to design, develop, and test autonomous systems and processes
Lockheed Martin is a global aerospace and defense company, with the mission to connect, protect and explore. The company focuses on next-generation and generation-after-next technologies. In alliance with General Motors, Lockheed Martin is developing a new fully-autonomous lunar rover that could be used for NASA’s Artemis program. This is a fitting team that pays homage to the original Apollo rover, which GM was also involved in its development.
Some elements of the rover’s autonomy system’s early design and development is done at Lockheed Martin’s state-of-the art R&D facility in Palo Alto, Calif., the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), which is well-equipped with a variety of cutting-edge technology, including a lab full of 3D printers. MakerBot 3D printers have been in use for about five years and have provided easily accessible 3D printing for a host of projects for Lockheed Martin’s team of engineers.
A Disruptive Innovation of Thermal Management
Reinventing a High-Performance CPU Cooler with Additive Manufacturing
High heat loads limit the miniaturization of portable computers, power electronic devices and high-power LED lighting. Most ambitious technological solutions from the lab are not ready for mass production and deployment in consumer products. But industrial 3D printing, or so-called additive manufacturing, can bridge the gap for thermal
management components and keep lossy electronics cool even when the
available space is severely limited. The freedom of design provided by 3D printed thermal management components offers the same or superior effectiveness as conventionally manufactured components, but requires much less space. Enlarged surfaces, any-shape geometries and conformal cooling channels are among the opportunities of this manufacturing technology.
The efficiency gains that can be achieved were demonstrated with a gaming CPU cooler design for additive manufacturing. To maintain the same chip temperature, the new part requires 81 % less space and 93 % less weight than the best-in-class conventional cooler.
Future Ariane Propulsion Module:
Simplified by Additive Manufacturing
Mission Critical”” perfectly describes the Class 1 components used in
the aerospace industry. Missions costing hundreds of millions depend
on these components. Accordingly, engineers are constantly seeking
to develop components of the highest quality, functionality, and
robustness while simplifying the manufacturing chain and reducing
the number of individual elements. Thanks to EOS technology, Ariane
Group has succeeded in taking this to a whole new level: Instead of
248 elements, the injector head of a rocket engine of a future upper
stage propulsion module now counts just 1 component. The injector
head has been simplified and reduced to what is literally an all-in-one design.
