Case Study: Bridge Appliances achieves working parts in 5 days with Desktop Metal metal 3D printing

Bridge Appliances gets working parts in 5 days with Desktop Metal

The customer, Bridge Appliances, faced significant delays in its innovation cycle for a new automated egg cooker, as lead times for prototype parts from third-party vendors often took one to three months. The specific challenge involved producing complex metal handles for the appliance, which lacked planar surfaces and would have required a lengthy traditional process of wax investment casting and complicated finish machining. To overcome this, Bridge Appliances turned to vendor Desktop Metal and its Studio System 3D printing technology.

By utilizing Desktop Metal's Bound Metal Deposition technology on the Studio System, the company was able to completely skip the traditional tooling design process. This solution enabled Bridge Appliances to have working prototype parts in hand in just five days, dramatically accelerating its product development and allowing it to rapidly disrupt the food processing sector.

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