Capabilities

Agnostic Consultancy

Independent advisory to select technologies, partners, and operating models around application requirements, evidence, and implementation constraints.

We provide vendor-agnostic guidance to help you evaluate additive and digital manufacturing opportunities with clarity. From roadmap planning to supplier selection and implementation sequencing, we align technology decisions to business outcomes, compliance constraints, and operational reality.

Our methodology

  1. Discovery & Requirements Definition

    Structured workshops to define objectives, constraints, regulatory requirements, and performance targets.

  2. Current-State Assessment

    Evaluation of existing capabilities, workflows, supply chain dependencies, and internal competencies.

  3. Technology & Supplier Analysis

    Comparative review of relevant technologies and ecosystem partners against defined success criteria.

  4. Feasibility & Value Modelling

    Commercial, operational, and technical analysis to validate viability and expected return.

  5. Strategic Recommendations

    Clear recommendations supported by risk assessment, cost modelling, and implementation sequencing.

  6. Implementation Governance (Optional)

    Advisory oversight during deployment to ensure alignment with the agreed roadmap and performance metrics.

Related capability context

Application opportunities

  • Prototyping

    Prototyping helps teams turn CAD, sketches, and early concepts into physical evidence for design decisions. D2M supports additive manufacturing, 3D scanning, and finishing workflows for prototypes that need to prove form, fit, appearance, or early function.

  • Production Parts

    Production parts need a route that fits quantity, material behavior, tolerances, finishing, and inspection expectations. D2M helps teams evaluate additive manufacturing alongside established production methods so the selected route matches the part and the business case.

  • Manufacturing Aids

    Manufacturing aids support the work around a production part: handling, assembly, positioning, protection and checking. D2M helps teams assess custom printed tools against the operator task, workpiece interfaces and shop-floor conditions.

  • Jigs & Fixtures

    Jigs guide a tool; fixtures locate and hold a workpiece. D2M helps teams assess printed tooling for repeatable assembly, positioning and inspection, with material and design choices matched to the loads, contact surfaces and operating environment.

  • Quality & Inspection

    Quality and inspection workflows turn dimensional measurements into evidence for a part decision. D2M helps teams assess 3D scanning and measurement routes around feature access, tolerance, datum alignment and the report the inspection must produce.

  • Short-Run Production & On-Demand Manufacturing

    Short-run production makes a defined batch of usable parts; on-demand manufacturing replenishes parts against a requirement. D2M helps teams compare additive routes using part geometry, material performance, quantity, finishing and inspection needs.

Technology routes

  • FDM®

    FDM is a polymer additive manufacturing process used for selected tooling, fixtures, prototypes, and end-use applications. D2M helps clients review material fit, workflow control, documentation, operator training, and implementation route.

  • PolyJet™

    PolyJet is a multi-material additive manufacturing process used for detailed prototypes, anatomical models, tooling, and visual or functional models. D2M helps clients assess where PolyJet fits the application, material requirement, workflow, documentation, and quality-control context.

  • SAF™

    SAF Selective Absorption Fusion is a polymer additive manufacturing process suited to selected higher-volume PA12 applications. D2M helps clients assess application demand, material route, inspection needs, documentation, and production workflow before recommending SAF.

  • P3™ DLP

    P3 DLP is a photopolymer additive manufacturing process used for selected polymer applications where surface quality, material behavior, and repeatable workflow control matter. D2M helps clients assess fit before production use.

  • SLA

    SLA stereolithography is a photopolymer additive manufacturing process used for precise models, tooling patterns, and visual or functional prototypes. D2M helps clients assess whether SLA fits the application, material route, accuracy requirement, and workflow.

  • Metal

    Metal additive manufacturing can support selected industrial, aerospace, and defense-adjacent applications where the material route, qualification effort, inspection plan, and documentation requirements are clearly defined.

Relevant industries

  • Aerospace

    Aerospace teams work under strict traceability, material justification, and approval constraints before any manufacturing route can move beyond review. D2M supports application assessment, technology route selection, workflow design, documentation planning, and training for aerospace manufacturing and maintenance contexts.

  • Defense

    Sensitive sustainment environments require traceability, controlled intake, defined approvals, and clear documentation before a manufacturing route is considered. D2M helps teams review application opportunities, define secure workflows, map inspection requirements, and plan operator handover for controlled sustainment contexts.

  • Industrial Manufacturing

    Industrial manufacturing teams need a disciplined way to review spares, tooling, fixtures, and production aids before moving them into controlled workflows. D2M supports part selection, workflow design, technology route selection, documentation, operator training, and staged implementation planning.

  • Medical (Non-Clinical)

    Healthcare support teams need governed workflows for anatomical models, training aids, device development support, and documentation before manufacturing is used. D2M helps assess applications, define equipment and software workflows, plan quality documentation, and support training for healthcare manufacturing support contexts.

  • Oil & Gas

    Oil and gas operations require disciplined review of asset criticality, material exposure, inspection requirements, and documentation before local manufacturing routes are considered. D2M supports candidate part assessment, workflow design, technology selection, inspection planning, documentation, and handover for oil and gas support contexts.

Plan the next step

Discuss the application, qualification requirements and ownership model before defining the implementation route.

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