Forerunner 3D Printing

Forerunner 3D Printing was started in 2016 after it was time for a rapid prototyping veteran to pass the torch to a younger generation of engineers.
After 24 years of successful business, Select Mfg. was acquired and transitioned into Forerunner 3D.
With the help of many industry experts, Forerunner continues to be a leader in rapid prototyping.
By providing outstanding service and investing in new technology, Forerunner has plans to continue growth and be on the leading edge of additive manufacturing technologies.

The following videos will walk you through each step of the process in detail and give you visual examples to help you understand them.
If you are a student working on a project or someone working on a presentation on MJF, we encourage you to use these videos.
Feel free to embed them or pull quotes off the transcribed copy below each video.
If you have further questions, feel free to contact us, we would be happy to talk with you.
My name is Paul DeWys.
I am a sales engineer here at Forerunner 3D Printing and today I'm going to be giving you a little bit of a walkthrough of how we set up a build, and then run a build and then unpack a build on our Multi-Jet Fusion machine.

The following HP Multi-Jet Part Design Guide has been assembled to help users of the MJF process for the manufacturing of their parts better understand how to go about designing parts to harness all the advantages while minimizing the limitations of the MJF process.
For more information on the Hewlett-Packard (HP) MJF 3D Printing process check out our process page or our how it works page for this technology.
Before sending a job to a 3D printer, the model to be printed needs to be tessellated.

Forerunner 3D Printing has been working with customers since day one on their 3D Printing for automated equipment needs.
It started with a customer approaching our sister company, DeWys Engineering, with a challenging end of arm tool that they needed designed and built on a tight deadline.
After evaluating the tooling requirements and assessing the options available to manufacture the end of arm tool components, it was decided to evaluate the potential for using 3D Printing to produce some of the more complicated parts of the end of arm tool.

In the past, companies that wanted to produce a plastic product first had to create tooling or molds before producing a single end-use product.
When considering a target distribution quantity of less than 5,000 - 10,000 units, the cost associated with an injection mold tool can become a roadblock.
For example, an injection mold for a simple small part that you could hold in the palm of your hand can easily reach into the $10,000+ range.
If the part is larger, say something you needed two hands to hold that also requires some complexity in the tool design (lifters or slides for undercuts) the tooling costs could easily reach $100,000+.