Product category:
Rapid Prototyping
News Release from: Moog FCS
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2007
Customers can part-buy prototyping
system
Tangible Express has adopted a business model that has been used successfully in fractional business jet ownership to develop the Tangible Alliance Program (TAP).
3D Systems has agreed to support Tangible Express of Springville, Utah with its new and innovative fractional ownership programme Tangible Express has adopted a business model that has been used successfully in fractional business jet ownership to develop the Tangible Alliance Program (TAP)
This new programme enables customers to purchase a fraction of a 3D Systems' rapid prototyping and manufacturing System based on the customer's anticipated annual system utilisation and parts demand.
Customers can purchase single or multiple fractions in 3D Systems' equipment owned and operated by Tangible Express, which includes 3D Systems entire additive manufacturing technologies' portfolio, at prices well below the cost of a single system.
Tangible Express operates the system, provides maintenance, and builds and ships parts in accordance with its TAP fractional owners' requirements.
Under this collaborative arrangement, 3D Systems will support Tangible Express' Tangible Alliance Program with promotional marketing and other product and technical support activities.
To fuel the anticipated growth of this programme, Tangible Express recently ordered 10 more 3D Systems' stereolithography and selective laser sintering systems.
To accommodate the arrival of its expanded fleet of 3D Systems machines and to be able to offer broader materials selection and faster turn around service for its customers, Tangible Express has relocated into a new, larger, state of the art facility.
"Supporting Tangible Express with such an innovative, first in our industry, programme is another significant step in expanding access to our system solutions and enabling an increasing number of potential users to experience the difference our solutions can make in their design and manufacturing activities", said Abe Reichental, 3D Systems' President and Chief Executive Officer.
"We believe that this new channel for delivering rapid prototyping and manufacturing solutions will accelerate the adoption and use of our systems and materials, by making our solutions more accessible to a broader audience".
"We know for a fact that many of today's users desire to have SLA and SLS-like parts but end up settling for lesser systems due to their current volume requirements".
"Tangible Express and 3D Systems are focused on the same goal - delivering the benefits of our systems' solutions to a growing audience by making ownership and operation of our systems more affordable and right-sized to individual customer needs".
"We look forward to working with Tangible Express to help its TAP programme succeed in transforming the way companies design, develop and manufacture their products", concluded Reichental.
"Fractional ownership of rapid prototyping and manufacturing systems provides a solution never before available to those who wish to access these capabilities", said Alex Linde, Tangible Express' President and Chief Operating Officer.
"Using the Tangible Alliance Program, fractional owners gain access to multiple RP processes and materials for a fraction of the total cost of ownership".
"Tangible Express is introducing an entirely new concept to the rapid design and manufacturing industry".
"Fractional ownership has never been applied to the manufacturing sector until now", commented Tangible's founder and Chief Executive Officer David McInnis.
"To have a company like 3D Systems share our vision of how fractional ownership can make the industry more dynamic as part of our team is exciting to us".
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