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Bravilor Bonamat Brews Up Functional Models

When coffee lovers in Europe think quality, they think Bravilor Bonamat. Based in the Netherlands, Bravilor Bonamat is Europe’s leading manufacturer of filter, instant and fresh brew coffee machines for commercial use. For more than 55 years, the family-owned company has placed a premium on innovative, user friendly design concepts that have helped the company distinguish itself in the marketplace.

“We considered other 3D printer technologies, but were extremely pleased with the ease-of-use of the Dimension SST. It’s just as easy-to-use, clean, quiet and safe as any paper printer that sits in a company’s office.”
— Eric van Eijnatten, Senior Product Engineer, Bravilor Bonamat Medical Inc.

The company’s twenty-person design team frequently works under tight deadlines to bring a product from an initial design concept to reality. And it’s no wonder, with more than 50 new product development projects annually, the team is under intense pressure to consistently deliver high quality products that customers

Bravilor Bonamat selected Dimension SST®, which incorporates an automated soluble support removal system, which gives users greater convenience in the design process by reducing engineering time and enabling the development of prototypes with more complex design geometries.

The Dimension Solution

With Dimension SST, the design team can now focus on testing more in the design stages, which gives them a better chance of getting it right the first time. This ultimately saves the company a great deal of time and money by eliminating unnecessary redesign and development efforts.

Dimension 3D printing can help you quickly fine tune designs and cut weeks — even months — from your development schedule. Now you can test form, fit and function and explore as many design iterations as you like — over your network, right from your desktop.

An essential tool for everyone on the design team

Dial Corporation Relies on 3D Printing to Design Product Packaging

“It is essential that we have the ability to quickly produce accurate 3D models of our packaging for review by our marketing and consumer groups. Communicating design ideas to the marketing team and others is a core function of our department. With multiple parties reviewing and providing input, an efficient process for design and redesign is essential.”

– Rick Althouse, Senior Package Engineer, Dial Home Care

The Dial Corporation manufactures a wide variety of consumer products including soap, body wash products, air fresheners, hard surface cleaners and insecticides. Dial is organized into three core product groups: Personal Care, Laundry Care and Home Care. Dial has a design team within its Home Care group that focuses on the packaging of products developed in its department.

Communicating design ideas to other departments within the Home Care group is an essential function of the design team. Models are oftentimes the best way to convey thoughts and ideas during the design process, as they give a clear image of the look, feel and function of the final product. Many of the package designs require multiple iterations to achieve the desired design objectives.

Throughout its design process, Dial’s Home Care design team used an outside packaging supplier to create its models. Each iteration resulted in another bill. Model after model, the design team found itself spending an excessive amount on printing costs. In addition to the financial burdens, turnover time was not ideal. It typically required several weeks for the packaging supplier to create a model.

The Dial Home Care design team sought an efficient, cost-effective printer to develop prototype product samples, molds for thermoforms and test component parts. They needed a functional 3D printer that would cut costs, reduce the project turnover time, fit their workspace and require minimal maintenance. The design team looked at 3D printers from several different manufacturers, and in the end chose a Dimension. “Everyone was extremely impressed with the speed, quality and especially the durability of the models produced by the Dimension 3D printer,” Althouse said.

With the addition of the Dimension 3D printer, the Home Care design team has significantly reduced the time it takes to produce models for review by the marketing and consumer groups. In fact, Althouse estimates that the average amount of time to reach a final design has been cut by six to eight weeks with the addition of the Dimension 3D printer.

Exploring and Communicating Designs

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have come to associate with the beverage machine manufacturer. For many years, the design team was accustomed to sending its computer aided drawings to a service provider that would take days, and often weeks, to deliver a model that the design and engineering teams could work with to analyze functionality, quality and aesthetic characteristics. Costs for these services were substantial, and timeliness was a critical factor.

“The Dimension printer has impressed everyone in the company because of the way it allows our design team to more effectively deliver innovative products that benefit our customers. We are very enthusiastic about the Dimension SST,” said Eric van Eijnatten, Senior Product Engineer for Bravilor Bonamat.

The Dimension Solution

“The system paid for itself in about two months time and the number of models we now produce has increased tenfold since we purchased the Dimension 3D printer.”

Dimension 3D printing can help quickly fine tune designs and cut weeks, even months, from a development schedule. Now, with the ability to evaluate more design iterations, form, fit and function can be tested right from a desktop.

An essential tool for everyone on the design team

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