Customer Quotes
NIKE™ (USA)
"We realized long ago that the most useful qualities of our 3D printers were speed, great part quality, and color. That's why we recommend it to our network of NIKE companies and have more Z Corporation 3D printers than all other RP devices combined." – Dan Armstrong, Technology Initiative Manager
Trisa™ AG (Switzerland)
“3D printing with Z Corp. technology has completely changed our practices. It takes one day instead of at least three to obtain a prototype, and the time and labor costs are one-tenth those of the traditional methods.” – Martin Bütler, Product Designer
Motorola™ (USA)
"With the Z Corp. system, we can have a discussion in the morning, make a suggestion, break for lunch, and see the results in early afternoon. No other tool can do this." – Mike Jahnke, Global Prototyping Manager
Ramboll™ (Denmark)
“3D printing gives our prospective clients a good idea of our unique capabilities. We can create compelling presentations that give tangible substance to the superior Ramboll vision in full detail and vibrant color. The colors, the detail and the textures – down to the seams on a model of a masonry wall – establish our credibility immediately.” – Gita Monshizadeh, CAD Development Manager, Transport and Infrastructure Division
Timberland™ (USA)
“In our industry, the pressure is always intense to quickly and affordably turn the marketer’s vision and the consumer’s taste into reality that performs well, feels good and looks great. Z Corp. printers have done exactly that for us, compressing our design cycles, lowering our costs and helping us produce better products for our customers.” – Toby Ringdahl, Computer Aided Design Manager
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
“Z Corp. has advanced 3D printing to the point where it can cost effectively provide vital strategic benefits to organizations. These benefits are seen not only in concept modeling but in the production of tooling for prototypes that organizations can use in design validation, functional testing, proof of concept trials, and pre-production design checks.” – Professor Dimitri Dimitrov, Laboratory for Rapid Product Development
University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom)
“Students are learning to use the very latest [3D printing] technology even before some of their future employers have it ... And they’re emerging from the process inspired, and with artifacts that can make a profound impact on admissions and hiring decisions.” – Chris Charlesworth, 3D Design Workshop
“While a design may look good on the computer screen, there is really no substitute for actually holding something in your hand. Since we installed the ZPrinter, we have been able to reduce model production time by as much as 75 percent in some cases.” – John Reed, Master Prototype Specialist
Continental™ Tire (USA)
"We’re making more money by creating prototypes for our sales force, giving them something concrete and convincing to show major auto companies and private-label customers. This process was just too much work in the past, but it’s a great advantage for us since our competitors have only sketches to show.” – Matt Lamb, Tire Designer
“We’ve found a host of unanticipated applications for 3D printing and myriad unanticipated benefits. In fact, we have shortened product launch time from four to two years, concept to availability. 3D printed prototypes in our focus groups give the company new levels of confidence in our product lines and benchmark data for our business decisions. We’re now confidently backing the winners rather than rolling the dice.” – Gary Hawley, Designer
Ontario High School (USA)
“Colleges and universities who visit us are learning a little about the possibilities of college prep in public education ... And when students show up at interviews with colorful models to pass around the table, that makes a big impact on whether they’re admitted or hired.” – Bruce Weirich, Computer Drafting Instructor
Hydroforming Design Light AB (Sweden)
“Because of our improved ability to communicate our value to customers and eliminate errors in design and manufacturing, we’ve been able to shorten our design and production cycle by approximately 40 percent. We don’t assume – we know – that a part fits before we invest in tooling. In fact, we often print section models of assemblies – say, an engine – with a part embedded inside.” – Peter Alm, Design Manager
Staten Island Tech. High School (USA)
“3D printing gives students a better understanding of their design. What looks good on the computer screen doesn’t always translate to the real world, so 3D printing is enhancing and reinforcing their CAD and conceptual skills. There’s just something very valuable from an educational standpoint, to hold an object in your hands at the end of the design process." – Frank Mazza, CAD Coordinator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
“As a Ph.D. student, I saw the benefits of using a 3D printer to produce architectural models to complete my Palladio project. As a future member of the faculty, I saw even greater benefits for using the Z Corp. 3D printer to improve the educational experience of students.” – Lawrence Sass, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture
Jerde Partnership (USA)
“Architects just can’t collaborate around a napkin or computer file the same way they can around a physical model. Architects need to literally walk around a design, get their hands on it and maybe mark it up with a pen. This process is as vital as presenting to the client and just as rigorous.” – Al Vass, Associate Vice President and Senior Project Designer
The Realization Group (USA)
“Speed is the key. I can take an order for a model today and drop it off with the customer tomorrow. Cost is another key ... I can make
that model for one-fourth the cost of stereolithography or laser-cutting.” – Rafael Tapanes, Owner
“Full-color, 3D printing simply offers so many advantages. It communicates information directly in the way humans think so they can fully, deeply understand what the project will look like and what the project will be like. How can an architect not take advantage of 3D printing when it will save money and save time? I ask customers to just try it once. When they do, the benefits are overwhelmingly obvious, and they call us in from the beginning of the next project – not as a vendor but more as a partner. Like the architect.” - R. “Partha” Parthasarathy
“Both in house and with clients, 3D printing has brought that missing dimension to our daily practice fairly easily. We now have the best machine, all the options, at an affordable price. We’re recognized as innovators in the Miami architectural community. The many and varied benefits of 3D printing make the machine a bargain.” - Robin Lockhart, Associate Architect and Senior Production Manager
“No other machine or method provides such accurate 3D printing with full, 24-bit color. Clients are amazed at our ability to vividly and accurately depict land and buildings and are very, very curious about how we can do this. Real estate clients are astonished at the beauty and accuracy of the models and the speed with which we create them.” - Takayuki Okubo, President
“That a ‘prototype’ could be dipped into the hardener and used as the final part was too good to be true. It was by far the fastest and easiest way to move from the CAD model to the finished part. We have steadily increased use of the 3D printer over the year,” said Friend. “It’s been a workhorse. We’ve gone far beyond our initial expectations by using it for real, usable products, and we plan to further investigate its possibilities in alternative manufacturing processes going forward. It’s an exciting area.” - Blake Shaffer, Team Leader and Senior Mechanical Engineering Major
“3D scanning, and printing as well, have delivered great benefits to our students and business partners alike. A lot of companies haven’t been exposed to the multifaceted role of laser scanning in the manufacturing arena. Our students, however, are becoming experts and are going into business situations with valuable knowledge to impart. They hit the ground running, and their employers immediately benefit. It’s the beginning of a long relationship. “We had a long list of demanding requirements for our 3D laser scanning technology, and the ZScanner™ 700 from Z Corporation was the only one that met them all.” - Sajid Abdullah, Lead Consultant, Digital Factory
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