Case Study: Turck achieves rapid prototyping and reduced tooling costs with Stratasys Digital ABS 3D printing

Turck - Customer Case Study

Turck, a global leader in process automation, connectivity and sensor solutions, needed faster, durable prototypes for its many overmolded products and custom variants. Traditional steel molds took about 10 weeks to build, required costly month-long revisions (~$5,000) and resulted in roughly six months to market—causing Turck to miss tight customer opportunities. Turck sought a 3D printing solution and turned to Stratasys, testing PolyJet technology with Digital ABS material to meet the strength and heat-resistance requirements for short injection runs.

Stratasys’ PolyJet and Digital ABS allowed Turck to 3D-print durable internal mold components that produce 20–100 parts, cut mold cost to about $1,500, and deliver first prototypes in 2 days instead of 2.5 months (a 97% improvement). Time to market fell to four months (33% faster), tooling costs dropped by $7,000 (23%), and Turck gained the agility to try more design variants—enabling it to bid on and win orders it previously couldn’t, including a multi‑million dollar opportunity. Stratasys’ solution therefore provided measurable speed, cost and business‑development benefits.

Turck

Florinel Ciubotaru

Senior Project Manager