AstroPrint Press Release – For Immediate Release – March 13, 2019
Stanley Black & Decker Partners with AstroPrint to Create a Distributed Network of 3D Printers
Hartford, Connecticut – (March 13, 2019) Today, AstroPrint is announcing a partnership with Stanley Black & Decker (NASDAQ: SWK) to connect, control, and optimize their fleet of 3D printers across multiple facilities. With AstroPrint’s Enterprise Cloud, Stanley Black & Decker will effortlessly automate their Additive Manufacturing systems and workflows on a single platform, ensuring that resources are properly shared and optimized, while gaining actionable intelligence on productivity and growth opportunities.
Connecting the dots
With the investment and growth of Additive Manufacturing increasing within Stanley Black & Decker, the first step is to connect all of their teams and 3D printers that are currently distributed in different offices dotted around the globe. These printers are used for everything from prototyping new product designs to Small Run Manufacturing of parts in existing products.
Control and Command
Once connected, Stanley Black & Decker’s engineers will gain a commanding view of all the 3D printers in the fleet – from one dashboard. They will be able to share resources, using any available 3D printer at any office around the world, or control fleets of 3D printers from a single system for larger scale projects.
Their managers will also be able to set permissions for different teams, and different members within each team, based on their roles and responsibilities. Access may also be granted to external contractors and consultants wherever in the world they may be.
Optimizing workflows continuously
More importantly, AstroPrint Enterprise Cloud will enable Stanley Black & Decker engineers to collect data on their 3D Printer fleet as well as check the usage, productivity, and issues of each printer. Stanley Black and Decker will use this data to continuously optimize their workflows and make intelligent decisions on scaling up and scaling out their 3D Printing processes.
Senior managers and business development teams will be able to use the data to review the Returns on Investment (ROI) on each project, make accurate projections and budget planning, as well as create business cases on new areas of opportunities and growth.
“Thanks to this partnership, we will gain visibility into ROI, uptime, value, resource optimization, and competence development in regards to 3D printer usage at Stanley Black and Decker,” says Martin Guay, VP of Business Development at Stanley Black and Decker. “These are critical drivers for Additive Manufacturing success for every enterprise. We are confident that the AstroPrint software solution has a great deal of promise for us and for the industry.”
According to Drew Taylor, CEO of AstroPrint, “We’ve been in the 3D Printing industry for a long time now and we are proud to have pioneered one of the first (and best) software systems to manage 3D Printers through the cloud. It’s now time for us to anticipate the needs and bottlenecks that large, multi-location companies, such as Stanley Black & Decker, will face as they invest significantly to grow their Additive Manufacturing programs.”
AstroPrint’s focus now is to scale out the AstroPrint Enterprise Cloud, bringing on more large manufacturers who need to connect, control, and optimize their 3D printer fleets.
About AstroPrint
AstroPrint is a venture backed company with offices in Hartford, San Diego, and Malaga (Spain), and is the fastest growing cloud (IoT) platform in the Additive Manufacturing industry. AstroPrint has processed over 1.5M 3D Prints from 85K+ users. The platform is gaining such widespread adoption due to how it leverages cloud based technologies to simplify the 3D Printing process not only for end users, but for businesses and enterprises as well.
