Hello everyone!
Please allow us, to introduce ourselves. We are a small, European team of 3D printing enthusiast, from various fields of expertise. During our adventures over the years, we faced many interesting challenges related to additive manufacturing. Some were stemming from the closed nature of most industrial 3D printers. Others were due to a lack of tech support, or available documentation.
After searching for solutions, and finding none, or only partially suitable ones, we decided to create our own systems.
We believe, that a good industrial 3D printer is more, than a CNC machine with the spindle swapped for an extruder. We believe, that when hundreds, sometimes thousands of these machines are working in one location, one needs clear feedback from the machine status, clear maintenance interval indication, simple, repeatable, and reliable operation. One also needs all the accessories to make 3D printing pre,-and post processing efficient, and scalable.
Not only this, but 3D printing has to be safe, and quality assured. With large scale manufacturing, sometimes in mission critical applications, one needs certainty, that their complete manufacturing process is under control, including material handling, print preparation, printing, post processing, packaging and even refuse disposition.
Our long term goal with Optera 3D is to create 3D printers, and 3D printing accessories, that are truly industrial, and can be integrated into full stack, scalable environments. It doesn’t matter if you are using one, or several thousands of them, they should be working seamlessly. Of course we will have to start with baby steps…
We hope, that the 3D printing community will enjoy using our solutions as much as we enjoyed creating them.
Keep on printing!
Optera 3D