Stratasys LIVE Unveiling

I don't think this take the other one. What, all right, Mike, Mike, there we go. What a great start. All right, sorry about that. Let's go ahead and get started. It gives me great pleasure to introduce our host for the evening here, Rich. He leads our industrial business unit, responsible for a lot of our industrial solutions including FDM, which we're here to talk to you about. Rich.

Thanks. So thank you, FY. This is an incredibly exciting day for all of us here at Stratasys. We started this project back in 2018 in collaboration with a lot of our key customers who challenged us: how do we take FDM to the next level for manufacturing applications? So we put a lot of work in this solution to really improve the throughput, the uptime, and the cost per part. And we're going to learn all about that here at today's launch. So from the original inventors of FDM, we're very excited to bring to you the next generation of FDM built for manufacturing. And to kick us off with the official unveiling, I'd like to introduce the founding father of FDM, Scott Crump.

All right, thank you, Scott. Very exciting to see the machine for the first time live here publicly at Formnext. And to tell us a little bit more about what makes this new platform so innovative for manufacturing, I'd like to bring up our product manager, Chris Ruland. Chris.

Thanks, Rich.

So Chris, we talk about throughput and really improving FDM in terms of throughput. We're talking about 2x speeds from what we've seen today. What enables that with this new technology?

The engineers at Stratasys did a fantastic job increasing the throughput. When we came to them, we said, what can we do to make this thing as fast as possible for FDM? So they started with a brand new gantry design using linear motors that allow it to maximize acceleration and maximize print speeds. Then we came up with a brand new extruder design which increases the flow rate of material as we're printing. In addition to that, this machine comes standard with an automatic tool changer with four pre-loaded extruders. When we switch from model to support, a tool change takes less than 15 seconds. It's very fast, very efficient, very repeatable. And all these extruders are aligned for maximum precision using a new auto-calibration technology. So when you hit play, all four tools are calibrated automatically.

Speed, yeah, that's fantastic. And the automatic tool changer is really incredible. We also talk about uptime and how important uptime is for our customers in manufacturing. Talk a little bit about what we're doing here to really improve uptime.

Absolutely. This design was built for manufacturing. In order to work in a manufacturing environment, the machine has to be reliable. We want to increase uptime. So in addition to maximizing the speed of the printer, we've minimized the non-print time. The extruders are easy to use, they're easy to load. But we also have with the four extruders up here, it opens up the capability of redundant extruders. When one extruder goes down, the tool changer can grab a new extruder and continue printing. The auto-calibration being off the system means if an extruder were to fail, you could take one out, load a new one, and calibrate it while the part is still in there and continue your build. Not only that, this machine was built for the future. We have sensors throughout the entire machine with over 428 data streams of data coming through our MTConnect. We can monitor the machine, run it through our MTConnect system, and there's now the ability to do predictive maintenance. We know an extruder is going to fail before it actually does. So now you're staying ahead of the game. And in addition to that, minimizing your... increasing your uptime means larger spools and an onboard dryer. So when you put in a spool, these large spools are 4,100 cubic centimeters that are loaded into this machine, and then we can dry it online. So we have dry material, increases your part quality, and overall is better uptime because you have to change them less often. Each spool bay is tied to an extruder, with three bays being model, one being support. We can run for over 12,000 cubic centimeters of material before you have to change. Significant improvement in uptime.

Yeah, it's a huge win. So now you can print over the weekend, you don't have to worry about coming in and changing out material.

Right, exactly. Longer print times, fewer change-outs, more uptime.

Yeah. So throughput, uptime, and then cost per part also a big part of the equation of helping us win more applications and manufacturing. Talk about that.

Yeah, going into manufacturing, we wanted to open more applications, and to do that, you have to reduce your cost per part. And that is done through increased throughput with up to two times the speed of other FDM printers, 50% more reliability—that's reduced scrap, better part quality, more acceptable parts—better uptime, less labor. We have auto-calibration, larger spools, that means you're touching the machine less often. You add all of these things up, you have a lower cost per part, a lower cost of operation, a better business case, and more applications that fall in line with FDM.

Excellent. So really groundbreaking improvements here with FDM. And I'd like to bring up now somebody that's actually using this system right now in his lab every single day. I'd like to introduce you to Dallas Martin. Dallas from Toyota, Dallas, come on up.

Thank you, Rich.

Dallas is an additive manufacturing industry veteran, over 20 years of experience in our space. He knows all the different technologies and solutions out there. And Dallas is the first in the world to be using this system in his lab. Dallas, tell us a little bit about your experience so far and why the F3300.

So we're very excited to have the machine. The voice of the customer has rang through everything that we brought to you guys that we wanted fixed or that we were having issues with. You guys knocked it out of the park. Sorry, you guys knocked it out of the park. It is an amazing machine. We were impressed with the speed right off the bat, but just the amount of technologies that's in it. With the sensors, we use a lot of MTConnect data, so for us to see that coming out of the stream and being a positive outcome for us, because that's what predictive maintenance is, one thing we're looking at for manufacturing. The other thing is the larger spools. We're excited about that. We're excited about the larger spools, not having to build over the weekend anymore. We can build it and didn't come in. I used to have to come in and feed the machines, we called it 'feed the beasts.' So we're super excited about that. And I mean, I was so excited, you guys are going to have to take the disappointment. I was the first one to buy one, so my PO is already in. So I've actually bought the machine. So I was pretty excited about that.

Yeah. So thanks to Dallas and the team's efforts there, Toyota is our first customer for the new F3300 system. And to show our sign of appreciation for your trust in Stratasys and continued partnership, I'd like to bring Scott Crump back up, who's got a gift of our appreciation to present to you.

And a quick photo. That's great. Thank you guys. Thanks, Dallas. And a big thank you to everybody involved on our entire Stratasys team, our development team throughout the world, especially our team in Minnesota who's been working so hard on this solution over the last number of years. Thanks to everybody involved. This is a very exciting day for us and we're just getting started. This is a brand new platform for Stratasys. This is the first product off this platform. Expect to see a family of products in this manufacturing range here in the future from us. And to talk a little bit more about where we're going forward, I'd like to bring up our CEO, Yoav Zeif.

No, now it works. Welcome everybody. Happy to see so many friends of Stratasys. Thank you for coming. Thank you. I'll start with a few thank yous. One, I would like to thank Rich and the team. They did a fantastic job in taking FDM to manufacturing, to places we didn't even dream about. This is a breakthrough. True. Thank you. And a big thank you to our customers, because what you see here is not a technology, it is listening to our customers. That's what we need. And that's what we need to do as an industry, to listen to them and to deliver. Thank you for delivering. Thank you for helping us to understand what you need. I also want to, in this important moment that we are celebrating, take a moment and to thank our customers and our partners and many, many peers of the industry, almost the entire industry, for standing with us as an Israeli-American company, for standing for Israel, and more importantly, standing for the right side in this world, which is we want a world that is caring about people and we don't want evil in this world. So thank you for standing with us. We don't take it for granted. Thank you very much. I also want to take a moment and cherish the lives that were lost, the people that were kidnapped, people that are impacted by the situation, and take a moment and pray together, no matter what is your religion, for peace. Because it will come if we will stand strong against evil. Peace will come. That was a short one, but I had to say it because I think it's important to stand on the right side. Now let's turn to Stratasys. Even in this situation, Stratasys is strong. Our employees are strong. We believe, and it's part of our values, we believe in customer first and in people first. And no matter what happens in the world, we will make sure that Dallas can run the machine on time and he has the material. And no matter what happens in the world, we'll make sure that we support our teams, if it's in war or it's in peaceful times. So that's what we are doing. Stratasys is strong and we'll keep being strong. Now let's turn to the booth. What you see here is the future of our industry. Why it's the future of our industry? Because outside you see the use cases, the applications. This industry is not about moving boxes, it's about solving problems to our customers. And you solve the problems by having a full solution, tailored solution by application, by use cases. So outside part of this booth is all about solving problems to our customers. The inside is the technology that supports it. And if we will remember it, we will flourish, we will thrive as an industry. So what do we have here? We have five technologies, we have dozens of applications, we have new software platform, and we have the largest portfolio of materials that help us to open new applications. This is the secret sauce of this industry. To close, I want to share with you a personal perspective. I don't know what about you, I am inspired from this industry. We are facing some tough times because we are not there yet. But our value and the value that we are giving to our customers in specific applications is unmatched. We just need to go all the way. So I'm inspired by the industry, I'm inspired by Stratasys, and we are committed to make additive work for our customers. That's why we are here. So let's enjoy it. The food is there. Let's celebrate as an industry, as Stratasys. Good luck to all of us. Go for it. Yeah, good job.