Case Study: Eaton Corporation cuts tooling lead time by 60% and slashes part costs up to 90% with Proto3000

Desktop Metal®’s Studio System™ A threefold solution for Eaton Corp’s productivity

Eaton Corporation, a global leader in power management and vehicle components, needed to reduce manufacturing downtime, speed prototyping and custom part production, and reverse-engineer parts when drawings were unavailable. Proto3000 supplied Desktop Metal’s Studio System™, an office-friendly metal 3D printing solution, to help Eaton rapidly re-tool lines, produce tooling and fixtures, and generate replacement parts on demand.

Proto3000’s deployment of the Studio System™ let Eaton cut tooling lead times by more than 60% (from 3–4 weeks to 5–10 days), reduce tooling costs by 40–80%, and in some reverse-engineered replacements achieve cost savings greater than 90%. Examples include a gear chamfer chuck jaw (79% cost saving) and a robot gripper (90% cost saving). The system is now used daily across Engineering and the Tool Room to shorten MRO turnaround, lower part and fixture costs, and accelerate design iteration, prompting Eaton to explore further additive production technologies.

Eaton Corporation

Alexandre Georgetti

Senior Manager