3D Systems’ pliable patient-specific 3D models with simulated blood flow revolutionized stent deployment training for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) at Methodist Institute for Technology Innovation and Education at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

3D Systems produced injectors, combustion chambers and expansion nozzles representative of a bi-propellant communication satellite engine through Direct Metal Printing (DMP) with its On Demand Parts Manufacturing Services team. These parts enable ESA to assess the potential to further improve the manufacture of current designs

In his best-selling 2000 book, Malcolm Gladwell defines a tipping point as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.”