Add a shift by adding a machine. Not a technician.
The clinics you supply submit the scan and the full prescription themselves. Orders land production-ready, the queue routes itself, the fleet runs unattended, and dispatch and invoicing close the loop under your brand.
For clinic groups, central fabs and labs producing for clinics beyond their own.
Is this you?
- You already produce for clinics beyond your own, or they have started asking.
- Your ceiling is output per technician and consistency between operators.
- You want production to be a line of business, not a favour you do for neighbours.
The parts of production that are not manufacturing stop consuming the day.
Orders arrive production-ready.
Your clinics submit the scan and the full prescription from any capture method they already use. Nothing to chase, no order form to decipher, no file to repair before it can print.
Capacity is a purchase order.
A busy quarter is a machine, not a hire. Capacity is shared across sites, so a quiet location absorbs a busy one instead of sitting idle.
Your brand stays in front.
Your clinics order from you, under your name, at your pricing. The platform runs the production line, it does not step between you and your accounts.
Five steps. Your clients own the first three.
- Capture Your client clinic scans From any capture method they already use. It reaches you as data, not as an attachment to chase.
- Configure They configure the prescription The prescribing clinician sets every zone, so clinical intent never passes through your staff.
- Approve The prescriber approves it Signed off on screen before it reaches your queue. A remake is their change of mind, not your error.
- Produce Your fleet produces it The queue routes itself across your units and sites, unattended, with print anomalies flagged in real time.
- Deliver You dispatch and invoice Tracked to the clinic, under your brand, billed per account at the pricing you set.
The first three steps are identical whichever door you choose. Producing for others simply means the person doing them is your client rather than you.
The hard part of a lab was never the printing.
It is intake, interpretation, rework and chasing. Fleet monitoring, a self-routing queue, role-based access, configuration reuse and per-account reporting are what turn added machines into added output instead of added coordination.
- 5 pairs per unit, per 24 hours, unattended
- 0 min post-processing per pair
- 1 week from install to production-ready
Software, printers, and the accounts you already have.
- The platform Fleet monitoring, the production queue, role-based access, messaging on the order, and reporting by account.
- Printers Start with the units your current volume justifies and add one when an account grows. Capacity is shared across your sites.
- The commercial relationships The clinics you supply, or the ones already asking. You set their pricing and you own the relationship.
The three options
Printing in-house
- Who it is for: A clinic producing for the patients it already sees
- What you buy: Software, a printer, and material
- Who produces the device: Your own printer, in your clinic
- Turnaround to the patient: Hours. Often the same visit.
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: 5 pairs per 24 hours, per printer. Add a unit.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: Stays in the practice
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
Producing for others
- Who it is for: A clinic or lab supplying clinics beyond its own
- What you buy: Software, printers, and accounts for the clinics you supply
- Who produces the device: Your own fleet, across one or more sites
- Turnaround to the patient: You set it, per account
- Your time per pair: None. Your client clinics configure their own.
- What caps your volume: Printers you add, not technicians you hire
- Control over the device: Each prescribing clinic controls its own device
- Where the margin goes: You price each account yourself
- How you start: A conversation about your volume
Outsourcing
- Who it is for: A clinic that wants 3D-printed orthotics without production in the building
- What you buy: Software, and production by the pair
- Who produces the device: A Podform3D partner lab
- Turnaround to the patient: 7 business days, and a second appointment
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: Nothing on your side. The partner lab absorbs it.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: A share covers production for you
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
Let us size this against your real volume.
Tell us what you produce today and we will map what the line looks like: units, throughput, and what it takes to bring your first accounts on. Thirty minutes, no commitment.
Contact Dr. Antonin Berube at antonin@podform3d.com.