{"id":4143,"date":"2016-10-10T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/New-3D-printing-partner-Plural-Additive-Manufacturing-exhibiting\/ba-p\/369363"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:15:20","slug":"new-3d-printing-partner-plural-additive-manufacturing-exhibiting-at-solid-edge-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/new-3d-printing-partner-plural-additive-manufacturing-exhibiting-at-solid-edge-university\/","title":{"rendered":"New 3D printing partner Plural Additive Manufacturing exhibiting at Solid Edge University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/plural1-2.jpg\" alt=\"plural1.jpg\" title=\"plural1.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Manufacturing parts to high tolerances and in a variety of materials is possible using Plural&#8217;s 3ntr industrial-grade printers<\/span><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>Solid Edge users interested in finding out more about the latest 3D Printing and additive manufacturing techniques can hear directly from our new partner <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralam.com\/why-plural\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Plural Additive Manufacturing<\/A> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/events_webinars\/solid-edge-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SEU16<\/A>. Plural\u2019s emphasis is both on improving individual prototypes and on manufacturing high quality parts in appropriate volumes with a low cost per part.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&nbsp;Ed Israel from Plural&nbsp;highlights these key areas that differentiate their additive manufacturing solution:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI><STRONG><SPAN>Price<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><SPAN>: parts at 50% less than the cost of traditional manufacturing including the cost of the printer, materials, and maintenance annualized over a multi-year period<\/li>\n<p><LI><STRONG><SPAN>Wide range of engineering thermoplastics<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><SPAN>: materials thatrange from flexible to very hard and available to the manufacturer&nbsp;at market prices, not the captive pricing you see from many industrial 3D printer leaders. <\/li>\n<p><LI><STRONG><SPAN>Part Quality<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><SPAN>: ability to manufacture parts to&nbsp;some of the highest tolerances achievable with FDM (fused deposition modeling) based 3D printing. Highly repeatable for low volumes of 10\u2019s to a thousand or more a month.<\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Ed invites you to talk with him at SEU16 about&nbsp;3D printing, the move to additive manufacturing, and how to determine your ROI before investing&nbsp;in the latest technology. Ed will also be exhibiting some of the many different parts they have manufactured and will be participating in a panel we are hosting on 3D Printing \/ Additive Manufacturing. This should be a great opportunity for our Solid Edge users&nbsp;to hear from industry experts and other manufacturers&nbsp;about their experience with 3D Printing their Solid Edge models.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>I look forward to hearing more from Ed about&nbsp;the recent developments&nbsp;in the additive manufacturing industry from a focus on creating individual prototypes to industrial scale manufacturing.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 447px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/3ntr-printers-1.png\" alt=\"3ntr printers.png\" title=\"3ntr printers.png\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">3ntr by Plural: affordable, industrial-grade printers<\/span><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing parts to high tolerances and in a variety of materials is possible using Plural&#8217;s 3ntr industrial-grade printers<br \/>\n  Solid Edge users interested in finding out more about the latest 3D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61512,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,30],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-partner","tag-solid-edge-university"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/3ntr-printers-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}