and the Mining Industry

Bullock, MD of Rapid 3D, resellers of professional and industrial grade 3D printers and Rapid 3D Parts, a full service 3D prinng bureau service.

Parts failures and maintenance

Where downme is related to parts failures, 3DP offers a facility to produce parts on-site and on-demand, allowing for effecve insourcing of parts as and when they are needed. With access to a digital spare parts library and the requisite prinng technology, the remoteness of a site becomes inconsequenal and the high cost and environmental impact of transportaon and warehousing of inventory is drascally reduced. Furthermore, the raw materials used for 3DP are usually in powder form and are thus easier to transport and store. A selfsustaining picture emerges where the operaon itself is responsible for idenfying an equipment failure and prinng the soluon.

3DP also allows designs to be customised to suit the needs of a parcular operaon. This comes off the back of the ease with which 3DP can be used to replicate an item from a digital copy on-site to suit the operaon's