MakerOS Webinar: Make the Most Profit from Your 3D Printing Business

Web-based collaboration platform for 3D printing and digital fabrication companies MakerOS assists users in developing their products faster, no matter the stage or size of the company. It was founded by CEO Mike Moceri, who has copious amounts of experience in design, manufacturing, software, and business: he co-founded the very first 3D printing retail service bureau, located in Chicago, back in 2013, and followed this move by founding 3D printing and product design agency Manulith the next year.

MakerOS is sponsoring a free webinar, which 3DPrint.com is organizing, called “How to Make the Most Profit from 3D Printing,” which will be held on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, from 2-3 pm EDT. Any digital fabrication business owner or 3D printing shop manager looking to run a more successful business should definitely sign up for this webinar.

“If you don’t understand your costs, you don’t understand your business,” Moceri told 3DPrint.com.

Let’s say that you have successfully completed a 3D printing job for a client, but instead of the substantial profit you were expecting, you only barely broke even. If you care about staying afloat, you’ll want to determine the underlying cause of something like this. That’s why this webinar is so important—you’ll learn how to keep this from happening and gain a deeper understanding of all the various expenses and costs that go into running your 3D printing business. This way, you will be able to set accurate, fair prices and maximize your profits.

“So what we’ll do in this webinar is we’ll figure out what are the core and most important points of cost analysis. We’ll go into detail on how to determine margins and profits for your operation, as well as the philosophy and rationale behind those calculations,” Moceri explained to us.

“We’ll provide a framework and how to think about your business starting with the costs and then we’ll talk about the philosophical aspects of determining margins and ultimately profits for your business.”

By attending this MakerOS webinar, you’ll come away with the knowledge of how to successfully run your digital fabrication or 3D printing shop. The insights attendees will gain can help steer thinking towards a cost-specific perspective, leading to higher profits, and you’ll learn how to recognize subtle things that could negatively affect your margins.

Every webinar attendee will receive access to a spreadsheet that they can use to make calculations and projections to, as Moceri explained, “see what the most optimal path to profitability is for their business.” In addition, the participants will have the chance to learn all of this from someone who has consulted with industry experts from all around the world and has successfully started multiple 3D printing services…Moceri himself.

Featured on MSN, NBC, Make Magazine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the D-Business Magazine, which once called him the “Face of 3D printing,” Moceri was once a mentor at TechTown Detroit, and currently serves as a mentor at WeWork Labs in NYC and the Stanley+Techstars Additive Manufacturing Accelerator. He is also an author, having recently published an e-book titled How to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic as a 3D Printing or Fabrication Shop, along with 9 Lessons for Optimizing Your Product Development Service. You can find both of Moceri’s e-books on the recently launched MakerOS Zone of our website.

What else can you expect to see in the MakerOS Zone? Plenty! There are also free video tutorials, such as “How to Price for SLA 3D Printing” and “Why We Made a 3D Printing Pricing Calculator,” along with the aforementioned pricing calculator itself. The MakerOS Zone also includes articles about the company that have been published on our website, as well as MakerOS articles found elsewhere on the web. Finally, you can access the company’s webinars “How to Optimally Price For Your 3D Printing Service Bureau in 2020,” and “How to Make the Most Profit from 3D Printing,” as previously mentioned. You can register here for the latter, which will be held on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, from 2-3 pm EDT.

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3D Printing News Briefs: July 6, 2019

In this installment of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re sharing some business news with you, along with a case study about a 3D printer farm. First up, AMUG just installed its new board for 2019-2020. Then, Print Parts Inc. has launched its new additive manufacturing website. Finally, BCN3D is showing the world how it produces parts assembled on its 3D printers at the company’s Print Farm.

AMUG Installs New Board Members

The 2019-2020 AMUG Board. Front row (L to R): Leslie Frost, Gary Rabinovitz, Jamie Cone, and Todd Grimm. Back row (L to R): Andrew Allshorn, Vince Anewenter, Tom Sorovetz, Carl Dekker, and Paul Bates.

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has installed its nine-member board for 2019-2020. The new board, made up of appointed and elected positions, will build and oversee the next AMUG Conference, as well as develop an organizational structure to support the continued growth of the annual 5-day event, which will next be held in Chicago from March 22-26, 2020. Each member of the board serves as an AMUG officer, and the industry professionals were elected during this year’s AMUG Conference. Carl Dekker of Met-L-Flo has replaced Paul Bates of UL as the new AMUG President; Bates has now taken on the role of Past President.

“I am excited to be AMUG’s 2020 president,” said Dekker. “We have an excellent and experienced team leading us on the path to the next event. The recent growth of AMUG has been astounding! This brings many challenges, which I am pleased to say the new AMUG Board is being very proactive in addressing.

Additional board members are:

  • Vice President: Jamie Cone, BD
  • Vice President: Andrew Allshorn, At 3D-Squared
  • Event Manager: Tom Sorovetz, FCA
  • Secretary: Leslie Frost, GE Additive
  • Chairman: Gary Rabinovitz, Reebok
  • Treasurer: Vince Anewenter, Milwaukee School of Engineering
  • AM Industry Advisor: Todd Grimm, T. A. Grimm & Associates

New Additive Service Website Launched

There’s a new additive manufacturing service in town for when you need on-demand, 3D printed performance and production-grade parts: New York-based Print Parts Inc. recently launched its new PrintParts.com website. The company’s mission is to help its customers achieve on-demand printed parts at an affordable costs, and it is also one of the first AM services that offers composite parts made on Markforged 3D printers. Clients can order flexible quantities – from 1 to 1 million – at competitive prices, 3D printed out of materials like carbon fiber, Kevlar, Nylon, and Onyx. The company helps its customers navigate the entire process from start to finish, including consulting, industrial design services, and even technology-specific feedback. PrintParts.com is celebrating its launch by offering a 25% discount on part orders during its first month of operation. In addition, the first 100 customers will receive a special gift package, including stickers, a branded operator’s apron, and a PrintParts t-shirt.

“Print Parts. That’s what we do,” explained company founder Robert Haleluk. “Our team creates functional prototypes, high quality concepts, and performance parts to help customers take on mission critical projects with confidence. We love what we do and put passion into every part we print.”

Video & Case Study: Producing Parts at the BCN3D Print Farm

Desktop 3D printer manufacturer BCN3D Technologies, based in Barcelona, uses its breakthrough IDEX (Independent Dual Extruder) technology at the BCN3D Print Farm to double its 3D printer production capacity. At the Farm, 63 printers are working 24/7 to manufacture 10,000 pieces per month. In a recent case study, the company explains how it produces 47 plastic Sigma and Sigmax pieces, which are assembled by its printers at the Print Farm.

“We think it will have a huge impact for those companies and users wanting to produce small series,” Marc Felis, the BCN3D Marketing Manager, told 3DPrint.com about the video the company produced about its Print Farm and IDEX technology.

IDEX allows BCN3D printers to control both toolheads independently, which makes it possible to double the production capacity for pieces like the Vertical Bowden, which holds the 3D printer’s Teflon tube in place and made with PET-G material at the BCN3D Print Farm. Customers who use IDEX technology can also cut labor, machinery, and maintenance costs in half, as well as decreasing printer downtime. Additionally, the technology is very clean, because it prevents molten plastic from dripping into printed pieces. To see how your company could speed up the production workflow while keeping costs reasonable, check out the video below:

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3DPrint.com Offers So Much More Than Just the Latest 3D Printing News

Here at 3DPrint.com, we do our best to keep you up to date on all of the most important things happening in the industry today. Whether it’s current business news, a breakthrough research project or exciting new product, series on important topics, or the latest events, we’re here to tell you about it.

But, we’re not just news – we also offer giveaways, surveys, and so much more! For instance, 3DR Holdings, the owner of the website, recently acquired an interest in SmarTech Markets Publishing, which is the leading industry analysis firm in the additive manufacturing sector. It’s the only firm that provides granular market analysis for the 3D printing industry, and offers up yearly reviews, along with market reports on a wide range of topics, from materials and bioprinting to 3D printing software, metals, and the complete range of vertical markets for additive manufacturing. If you click on the Research tab at the top of our homepage, you’ll go straight to the SmarTech Analysis page, where you can browse reports and infographics to your heart’s content.

Speaking of SmarTech, the Events tab on our homepage includes a link to the Additive Manufacturing Strategies site, a yearly summit that 3DPrint.com co-hosts with the industry analysis firm. We are also both joining this summer’s Inside 3D Printing in Seoul, South Korea as co-producers.

We also have a place on our website where you access white papers from important industry players, like Stratasys and Formlabs, browse old webcasts, and sign up for our popular online training courses. Our next class, “Filaments, Materials and Software Considerations for 3D Printing,” starts tomorrow and will teach you about programs and tools you can use to build an exciting design project from scratch. Additionally, as a bonus, if you register for our latest course, you’ll get free access to our past lessons on related topics so you can keep building your skill set.

Another great feature 3DPrint.com offers is a Jobs board, which is linked to a career portal for 3D printing recruiting company Alexander Daniels Global. This board includes jobs from all 3D printing and advanced manufacturing disciplines in cities all around the US, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Seattle, and other countries as well, such as Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain. Here’s just a small offering of the many available positions being advertised on our Jobs board right now:

  • Inside Sales Manager
  • Regional Sales Manager – Midwest
  • Field Service Engineer
  • Application Engineer
  • Process Engineer
  • Software Product Manager
  • Vice President of Operations
  • Business Development Manager – Material Applications
  • Engineering Quality Consultant
  • AM Lead – Aerospace
  • Product Manager – Sintering
  • Senior Software Engineer / Architect
  • Future Strategy Product Manager

One of the best, and fastest growing, features on 3DPrint.com is our online shop. We currently offer 3D printers from G3D and Dynamism, the latter of which will also provide installation and training on-site and through webinars. You can also purchase 1.75 mm and 2.85 mm spools of 3DPrint.com’s own brand of filament on the shop. Facilan C8, a novel material with higher impact strength than PLA and higher tensile strength than ABS, is available for $44.50 a spool, while high gloss Facilan HT can be purchased for $42.75.

If you’re interested in 3D scanners or books about 3D printing, our shop provides the latest search results from Amazon. If custom 3D printed fashion is what you’re looking for, we’ve got two vendors: Wiivv and its 3D printed shoes and insoles and the King Children app, which provides fashionable 3D printed prescription eyewear at a relatively affordable price.

3DPrint.com’s online shop also features two professional 3D printing service providers: Treatstock and 3DCompare.com. Both of these services are easy to use: simply upload your 3D model, customize it, finalize delivery, and checkout.

So remember – the next time you’re in need of something in the 3D printing industry other than news, be it filament, an online course, or a job, visit 3DPrint.com.

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