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3D Spark Features Explained

3D Spark is a B2B Manufacturing, Procurement and Sales Platform that helps identify the cheapest, fastest, and most sustainable way to produce or source components, trusted by industry leaders.

Features

3D Spark platform enables manufacturers to simulate their production reality digitally to automate the costing and pricing analysis!

Instant Costing & Quoting

Whether you're involved in selling manufactured parts or managing internal manufacturing operations, understanding costs and providing customers with a streamlined ordering process is crucial.
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Fast upload of 2D drawings and 3D CAD files.

Fast upload of 2D drawings and 3D CAD files.
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Simulate your internal manufacturing process for accurate cost calculations.

Simulate your internal manufacturing process for accurate cost calculations.
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Easily generate comprehensive reports, quotations, and technical documents with a single click.

Easily generate comprehensive reports, quotations, and technical documents with a single click.

Automate costing analysis and reply to RFQs in seconds not hours.

3D Spark platform enables manufacturers to simulate their production reality digitally to automate the costing and pricing analysis!

Rapid Quote Generation

Produce accurate quotes in a fraction of the time it takes using traditional methods.

Increased Effeciency

Automating old manual process, opens up more time for experts to focus on other important aspects of your business.

24/7 Lead Generation

Integrate 3D Spark's costing tool on your website for 24/7 lead generation and instant quoting.

Competitive Advantage

Faster response times to customer inquiries can give your company a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Manufacturability Assurance & Technology Benchmarking

Ensure your parts are production-ready by simulating real-world manufacturing conditions and comparing against industry benchmarks.
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Digital Production Reality

Visualize and analyze your designs in a simulated production environment, ensuring accuracy and feasibility before manufacturing.
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2D and 3D CAD file Analysis

Automatically analyze 2D and 3D CAD files to identify potential issues and optimize designs for manufacturability.
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Compare 15+ technologies

Compare 15+ manufacturing technologies to find the best fit for your production needs, considering cost, time, and sustainability.

Automate design evaluations for any production option to ensure feasibility checks in seconds not days.

3D Spark ensures your designs are not only optimized for production but also matched with the best manufacturing process based on your cost, time, and sustainability goals.

Manufacturability Assurance

Determine if designs are viable for manufacturing based on the technology selected, addressing key issues to avoid common manufacturing pitfalls.

Strategic Technology Selection

Compare manufacturing technologies to find the most suitable method for your project, based on efficiency, cost, and sustainability.

Cost & Time Savings

By ensuring designs are manufacturable and selecting the best manufacturing process early, save on costs and reduce time-to-market.

Sustainability Advantages

Make production choices informed by CO2 emissions estimates for each part and production option

Smart RFQ / Market Price Insights

Leverage market price insights for efficient, and informed RFQ creation, simplifying procurement of parts.
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Supplier Panel

Connect with your qualified suppliers seamlessly and streamline your procurement process.
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Market Price estimates

Generate accurate market price estimates, ensuring competitive and informed decision-making.
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One-click RFQ Generation

Automatically generate RFQs with one-click, reducing time and effort while improving accuracy.

Send targeted RFQs with Smart Market Insights for rapid decision-making in minutes not days.

By integrating smart price estimates and supplier data, you can avoid costly procurement delays and ensure that your sourcing decisions are both economically sound and sustainable.

Cost Efficiency

Reduce procurement costs by leveraging market insights and optimizing supplier selection.

Efficient Sourcing

Optimize your sourcing process by automating RFQ generation, reducing manual tasks, and accelerating procurement timelines.

Market Price Insights

Gain a competitive edge with dynamic pricing models and data, ensuring your RFQs align with current market conditions.

ERP Integration

Seamlessly integrate with your ERP to manage your RFQs and procurement processes from anywhere.

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Precise CO2 Calculation

Helping you make Sustainable Manufacturing and Procurement Decisions

Automate CO2 evaluations for every production option to ensure sustainability checks.

3D Spark ensures your production processes are not only optimized for efficiency but also aligned with the best environmental practices by accurately calculating CO2 footprints.
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Informed Sustainability Choices

Compare the CO2 impact of different manufacturing options to select the most environmentally friendly method.

Regulatory Compliance

Support compliance with sustainability reporting requirements and environmental regulations.

Corporate Responsibility

Demonstrate your company's commitment to reducing its environmental footprint.

Eco-friendly procurement

Use 3D Spark's supplier panel to send targeted RFQs to qualified suppliers having production options with least environmental impact.

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Supplier Panel

Streamline your procurement efforts and find the right supplier, instantly!
3D SPARK's Supplier panel tool

No more back-and-forth with multiple suppliers - quickly assess feasibility, get instant price benchmarks, and make procurement decisions in record time.

 Our Supplier Panel empowers OEMs and procurement teams to efficiently source components by leveraging their approved network of suppliers, while also factoring in each supplier’s production capabilities to identify the best fit for the part.

Instant Make-or-Buy Insights

Procurement teams can immediately access indicative prices and capacity estimates from suppliers, enabling faster decision-making.

Reduced Reliance on RFQ for Data

By leveraging on supplier data, procurement teams can cut down on the need for multiple RFQs for market data.

Qualified Supplier Access

View which suppliers in your network can produce your part at your target price.

Automated RFQs

Reduce time-consuming manual RFQ processes by sending requests directly to selected suppliers within the platform.

Part Request Portal (PRP)

Simplified Quoting & Ordering
3D Spark PRP

Using PRP users can quickly submit part requests, receive instant manufacturability feedback, and connect with internal or external suppliers in one click.

Ideal for OEMs, MSPs, and internal procurement teams looking to automate and accelerate quoting and order fulfillment.

Easy File Upload

Reduce procurement costs by leveraging market insights and optimizing supplier selection.

Instant Price Feedback

Optimize your sourcing process by automating RFQ generation, reducing manual tasks, and accelerating procurement timelines.

One-Click RFQ Submission

Gain a competitive edge with dynamic pricing models and data, ensuring your RFQs align with current market conditions.

Website Integration

Seamlessly integrate with your ERP to manage your RFQs and procurement processes from anywhere.

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Part Screening

Analyse 10.000+ parts within your production portfolio or spare parts warehouse with different manufacturing technologies to reduce cost, lead time, and CO₂ footpirnt.
3D SPARK's CO2 tool

Reduce engineering effort, optimize your component portfolio, and cut unnecessary costs and CO₂ emissions by automating part assessments at scale.

The Part Screening feature helps manufacturers and procurement teams quickly assess thousands of parts to determine the most efficient and cost-effective production methods.

Proactive portfolio analysis at scale

Analyze complete part portfolios upfront instead of tackling only one part at a time.

High ROI

Automate manual processes, saving up to 90% of effort and achieving rapid cost and time savings.

Make or Buy decision support

We can consider your machine park and your existing suppliers in the analysis.

Industry compliance

Meet mandates like Deutsche Bahn’s requirement for at least 10% printable parts in next-gen ICE trains: For more information click here.

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Don’t just take our word for it

Hear from some of our amazing customers.

Manufacturing as a service is a fast-paced market where rapid response to RFQs is crucial. 3D Spark automatizes costing and quotation by accurately modelling our materials, machines, pre- and post-process steps. Our quoting time decreased by 70% with 3D Spark, leading to 250% more orders. Furthermore, thanks to 3D Spark, we can effectively compare various AM processes with conventional manufacturing technologies. This capability is invaluable when advising on the best alternatives for specific parts, especially when customers are uncertain about choosing between AM or conventional manufacturing methods

Fabitive Founder
Miguel Boix
CTO at FabiTive

The 3D Spark platform drastically reduces time and effort needed by my team to analyze 3D CADs and 2D drawings from daily Requests for Quotations (RFQs) regarding technical feasibility and precise, instant costing.

MetShape Founder
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Baum
CEO at MetShape

Don’t just take our word for it

Hear from some of our amazing customers.

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3D Spark customer - Uwe Jurdeczka
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“3D Spark is stable, fast, and always accessible, significantly automating processes, especially in quick costing. It builds confidence among our team, allowing us to pinpoint the most cost-effective production alternatives. The ability to compare 15 different processes and various materials for manufacturability, costs, and timing instantly is incredibly valuable.”

Added Value:

15+

Technologies available for benchmarking

40%

Reduction in purchase prices of parts

86%

Fewer RFQS
needed

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Dr. -Ing. Uwe Jurdeczka

Gruppenleiter Innovative Produktionstechnologien, Senior Expert Additive Manufacturing
3D Spark customer - Aurelien Fussel
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Our collaboration with 3D Spark has been a key factor in Alstom's achievements in additive manufacturing and the success of our DesignToPrint program. This partnership not only supports our innovation goals but also participates in our commitment to sustainability and operational efficiency. We look forward to furthering our leadership in the industry and setting new benchmarks for excellence in digital manufacturing.”

Added Value:

€15M+

Saved in
Costs

2,600

Months in
lead-time reduced

Powerful
C-level reporting

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Aurelien Fussel
3D Printing Program Manager at Alstom
3D Spark customer - Sven
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The founders' AM expertise gathered at the Fraunhofer has been noticeably incorporated into 3D Spark. With the right parameterisation of material and machine, we now achieve an accuracy of ±5%. The automations make these activities more stable, easier and faster, so that our partners in the DB in particular benefit from timely and reliable offers that are not based on a Excel sheet.

Added Value:

± 5%

Costing Accuracy
achieved

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Sven Gaede
Application Engineer Additive Manufacturing at Deutsche Bahn
3D Spark customer - Markus Goeberndorfer
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"The manufacturing costing estimates from 3D Spark were highly accurate, within 2-3% of our in-house calculations. This accuracy built trust and saved 90% of manual time, enabling us to make confident decisions."

Added Value:

2-3%

Cost achieved compared to actual in-house costs.

90%

Time saved by reducing manual work

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Markus Goeberndorfer
Application Engineer at ÖBB
3D Spark customer - Patrick Klein
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"3D Spark allows us to accurately calculate part costs and analyze our 100,000+ spare parts portfolio for cost and lead time savings. It’s essential for managing our complex inventory efficiently and supports our mission for sustainable, low-cost mobility solutions."

Added Value:

100,000+

Spare part portfolio analysed for cost and lead time savings

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Patrick Klein
Application Engineer at ÖBB
3D Spark customer - Ignacio Lobo Casanova
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Requesting a part via 3D Spark is intuitive and efficient. What's more, this self-service is designed for everyone, not just experts in additive manufacturing technologies, making these cutting-edge tools accessible to all ZF employees.”

Added Value:

50%

Reduction in part request to production process time

25%+

Increased accuracy of analysis

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Dr. Ignacio Lobo Casanova
Head of SMART Lightweight Process Technologies, ZF
3D Spark customer - Marcel Ahlbrand
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We need to give the power to the people to understand cost and manufacturability of their parts without bugging experts and wasting their time and this is what 3D Spark is helping us to do.”

Added Value:

50%

Reduction in part request to production process time

25%+

Increased accuracy of analysis

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Marcel Ahlbrand
Advanced Development Chassis Components, ZF
3D Spark customer - Miguel
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"Manufacturing as a service is a fast-paced market where rapid response to RFQs is crucial. 3D Spark automatizes costing and quotation by accurately modelling our materials, machines, pre- and post-process steps. Our quoting time decreased by 70% with 3D Spark, leading to 250% more orders. Furthermore, thanks to 3D Spark, we can effectively compare various AM processes with conventional manufacturing technologies. This capability is invaluable when advising on the best alternatives for specific parts, especially when customers are uncertain about choosing between AM or conventional manufacturing methods."

Added Value:

250%

More orders won

70%

Reduction in quoting time

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Miguel Boix
CTO at Fabitive
3D Spark customer - Andreas Baum
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“The 3D Spark platform drastically reduces time and effort needed by my team to analyze 3D CADs and 2D drawings from daily Requests for Quotations (RFQs) regarding technical feasibility and precise, instant costing.”

Added Value:

90%

Reduction in quoting time

3X

Lesser tools needed for quoting

100%

Elimination of efforts spent on unsuitable RFQs

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Dr.-Ing. Andreas Baum
CEO at Metshape
3D Spark customer - Laurens Faure
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"We no longer face delays in the quoting process, which has allowed us to serve our clients better and respond to a greater number of requests. The automation of manufacturability assessments and instant quoting has not only increased our efficiency but also contributed to a significant boost in our revenue."

Added Value:

70%

Reduction in request to quotation time

35%

Increase in leads

10%

Growth in revenue achieved

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Laurens Faure
CEO and Founder at SANDHELDEN
3D Spark customer - Jörg Willmann
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“3D Spark has significantly improved our quotation and sales process as well as our customer performance. Being able to create a viable offer in just 2 minutes enables us to respond even more specifically to our customers' needs and support them.”

Added Value:

80%

Reduction in quoting time

24/7

Quoting automated and available

150%

Increase in orders

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Jörg Willmann
Co-Founder at Additive Willmann
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What is it?

Case studies

3D Spark's manufacturing data analysis platform

Get insights directly from our customers on how 3D Spark's platform benefited their businesses

Sales

Metshape X 3D Spark

Engineering

DB X 3D Spark

Procurement

Alstom X 3D Spark

Case study 1

Sales

Customer- Metshape

The Problem -

High time and effort required by sales team to analyze 3D CADs and 2D drawings from daily Requests for Quotations (RFQs) regarding technical feasibility and precise, instant costing.

Implementation:
Output
3 times less tools
needed for quoting
Output
90% reduced quoting
time
OUTPUT
100% Reduced effort
for answering
unsuitable RFQs

Case study 2

Engineering

Customer- DB

The Problem-

There were challenges in feasibility testing and (pre-)calculation processes, including the need for higher accuracy, improved stability, ease, and speed. They also experienced issues with reliance on fragile Excel sheets, which hindered their ability to provide timely and reliable offers.

Implementation:
Output
Achieved an accuracy
of +-5%

Case study 3

Procurement

Customer- Alstom

The Problem-

Alstom faced challenges including high parts purchase prices, time-consuming RFQ processes, limited adoption rate of AM, and the need for cost, lead time and CO2e savings, accounting.

Implementation:
Output
Parts purchase
prices reduced by
more than 20%
OUTPUT
86% less RFQs needed
Output
On-demand in-house
AM consultancy
for expertise growth
OUTPUT
Live AM roll-out
KPIs: global cost
& leadtime savings
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