Fictiv, the San Francisco based “manufacturing platform” recently expanded their services. I spoke with co-founder and CEO Dave Evans to find out what the company is doing and where the 3D printing industry is going.
“Our goal is to help people build physical objects faster,” says Evans. Since founding in 2013, the U.S. based enterprise has grown to employ approximately 30 people. Fictiv provide an “online platform that allows engineers and designers to order parts from idle machines, or machines that have extra capacity.”
Merging Efficient Automation with Human Innovation
“It’s really about trying to give people better access to tools to build physical products,” says Evans. This service might sound familiar to readers, and other companies do on first glance appear to offer a similar service. “The major difference between us and 3D Hubs is that while they are a directory to go and find a printer, for us when you upload a file we’re turning around 3D printed parts the next day, within 24 hours.”
To achieve their speed Fictiv combine elements of automation with a human touch, offering a degree of consulting alongside their approach to the modern machining shop. “When a model gets uploaded to Fictiv we computationally analyze that model to see it is actually producible and get Design for ...
SOURCE: 3dprintingindustry.com ( go on reading...)
