The lifespan of your printer depends on many factors. However, all Formlabs printers must pass a rigorous endurance test. The 36-month design operation test ensures a long-lasting, quality printer.

Without the proper settings, third-party resins are likely to fail when being used in a Form 3/Form 3B printer.

Every Formlabs printer ships with a one-year warranty.

Our Service team supports you with any troubleshooting or printing problems throughout the lifetime of your printer.

Codebeamer is an ALM tool that benefits software development teams. It provides a centralized platform for collaboration and information sharing. It also offers end-to-end traceability, automation of processes and workflows, tools for managing quality assurance processes, and features to support compliance with regulatory standards. Overall, Codebeamer can help teams improve collaboration, traceability, efficiency, quality, and compliance.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are two distinct approaches to managing development. ALM focuses on software development’s lifecycle, including requirements gathering, testing, and deployment. In contrast, PLM focuses on a physical product’s full lifecycle, from ideation to its end-of-life. Overall, the main difference between the two is that ALM is for software applications, while PLM is for physical products.

The application lifecycle encompasses phases such as requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Each phase plays a crucial role in the application’s success, emphasizing the importance of thoroughly testing and meeting user needs.

ALM is not an Agile tool but can fit into an Agile development environment. It manages the application lifecycle from conception to decommissioning, involving processes, tools, and people. Agile teams commonly use ALM tools to manage their projects. However, it’s important to note that ALM itself does not align with Agile principles.

PLM streamlines your product data into a centralized hub for better traceability, security, and collaboration. PLM software maintains the context and quality of your product data and the processes throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Windchill Enterprise PLM software enables geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams to securely collaborate both internally and externally with partners, suppliers and customers using trusted, up-to-date product information. All product-related data, including mechanical, electrical & software components, is linked with traceability to requirements, simulations, certifications, BOMs, process plans, and Model Based Systems Engineering. Capabilities include Change & configuration management, parts classification, Supply chain collaboration, Quality management, Service & Manufacturing process management and the management of complex product families & platforms.

All this information, along with its derivatives, is leveraged bi-directionally, across teams and systems, including service, manufacturing, IT, and quality, among others. Windchill allows for seamless integration with ERP, MES, CAD, AR, IoT technologies, and more. These connected enterprise systems break down organizational data silos across the value chain.

Windchill is used for product lifecycle management and creates a centralized platform for all of the product development data collected throughout your enterprise.

Windchill is a PTC single PLM software platform that manages product development data and streamlines change management processes.

PLM is important because it is the foundation for the digital thread. Proper data management is the key to successful technology and operational excellence throughout your organization.

IoT connects products and manufacturing processes to people who create and use them. This allows decision-makers and industry leaders to maximize the value of a traditional business, as well as, create new value streams through opportunities and outcomes.

An IoT solution solves a specific problem or question with a combination of hardware devices, network connectivity, and software applications.

Most IoT “things” generally include:

• Devices such as controllers
• Device management
• Sensors
• Data management
• Networking

Companies gain key information about the operational state directly from devices in the field or in manufacturing. It provides companies the ability to remotely control these devices with abundant information for better decision-making. This includes automation, smart cities, smart transport, performance tracking, and more. IoT improves product quality, worker productivity, and production throughput. IoT provides endless opportunities.

Most enterprise software tools are inaccessible to users due to costly licensing, intensive training, and the time it takes to integrate and customize. Non-expert stakeholders access and exchange data from disconnected systems, processes, and tools. These workarounds create a new instance of the data that is no longer under change control. Subsequent updates to the system make the workaround, and any decisions made with it irrelevant and inaccurate.

Thingworx Navigate is a “system of engagement”. It is how people interact with technologies like Windchill (including PLM/SIM) and Integrity. “Systems of record” are where expert-level users work, where they manage, store and reference content. Oftentimes these “systems of record” are too difficult for casual and infrequent users to use efficiently. Thingworx Navigate is the solution that creates a more streamlined, intuitive, “system of engagement” to get the same information in the “system of record”, in real-time.

• Remote asset monitoring
• Remote maintenance/service
• Predictive maintenance and asset management
• Optimized equipment effectiveness