From a single prototype up to many thousands of production parts, virtually any company designing new or improved products with plastic or metal components will benefit from the on-demand solutions PrintForm provides. As a single source for multiple manufacturing processes, PrintForm provides an expert level service in transitioning customers through the design to manufacturing cycle. Services include both advanced 3D Printing/additive manufacturing processes, along with more traditional methods like silicone molding, CNC machining, sheet metal, and injection molding.
Customers use the company’s cloud-based software PaasPort (Parts as a Service Portal) to review their design and order parts, while streamlining the entire Project Management process on the back end, which are routed by PrintForm to the manufacturers best suited to make them. “PrintForm does not own any machines, we are a cloud-based network of manufacturers both domestic and overseas. Today, that is mostly centered in the US and China, but this round will enable us to strategically grow our network to add new capabilities, increase access to materials, and provide customers with additional capacity. But it’s important to note that our goal is not to build the world’s largest network of manufacturers, rather it’s highest quality network. The problem that PrintForm is solving has been a persistent one in the world of hardware: making prototypes can cost a lot and be very inefficient, and that’s before you move into full-scale manufacturing, which can be challenging even with economies of scale. It’s also a very crowded field, with a number of different companies all vying to help fill the role with manufacturing enabler (and it is a field also littered with failures). But over the years, we’ve seen a lot of advances in manufacturing tech, with the trade-off that some of the work it takes on freeing up staff to work on other challenges. “Investors and others realize that manufacturing — like other industries before it [such as] finance, retail, travel — is having its technology moment. We are excited to be part of the digital transformation of the status quo in manufacturing. “ PrintForm’s innovative tools and services address the critical gap in contract manufacturing that will lead to a massive shift in how consumer and industrial products are manufactured.
