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MATERIALISE BRINGS WEB SERVICES TO A NEW LEVEL WITH ONSITE
17 June 2004 - Materialise NV
| Materialise launches OnSite: an innovative online concept that is developed in such a way that the customers' desktop becomes the window to the prototyping of their projects.
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Via secured web pages customers will be able to follow up on their project, get quotes, place online orders, track their shipments and orders, visit the Materialise shopfloor and go into meeting. These web pages will be operational from the 18th of June onwards. Materialise strives to support its customers in their product development process in the best way. Saving time and travel costs are two essential customer needs that are answered through the OnSite project. With this new development Materialise brings web services to a new level. The new OnSite project will be launched by means of a live web broadcast. You are invited to attend this unique event and witness the revelation of Materialise's innovative online concept: OnSite.
Where? www.materialise.com
When? Friday June 18th, 2pm CET
What? WEBCAST Virtual Materialise Tour
Why? Because an extensive ONLINE service needs an exclusive ONLINE event for its launch
Fried Vancraen, Managing Director:
'Imagine if you could have the full capabilities of a company such as Materialise in house. With our variety of techniques from Stereolithography, Vacuum Casting, RIM, SLS, FDM and skilled finishers in the room next door. It would certainly make product development faster and more accessible. That is the goal that the industrial services division at Materialise has set for itself this year with 'Materialise OnSite'. We want to be as close to our customers as possible and develop with them a technological and administrative infrastructure that makes prototyping again feel like an internal activity.' About Materialise
Materialise, with headquarters in Belgium, started in 1990 in the sector of rapid prototyping. Since that time, the company has experienced an exponential growth. Materialise has become key player in the European RP market: 4.2% of RP services in the world is performed by Materialise; the company has more than 12% market share in Europe.
It offers from the smallest prototype to the largest, with the broadest range of materials in Stereolithography, SLS and FDM. The price is on average 31% less expensive than an average RP service part in the world market. With a complaint rate over the last quarter of 0.5 % Materialise offers the only objectively published quality in the market. Materialise RP machines produce more than twice as many components as the average machine at competing service providers worldwide. They produce more than 4 times the number of parts per machine compared to RP machines used internally in end-user companies.
Materialise aims at staying the largest provider of rapid prototypes in order to fully support its customers in their product development process. They have offices all over the world and the largest software development team in the sector.
http://www.materialise.com
About: Materialise NV
Begun as a joint venture with the University of Leuven-Belgium, Materialise was one of the first European rapid prototyping service bureaus. It has since grown into a European supplier of plastic prototype solutions, and today is a worldwide leader in the rapid prototyping industry. Materialise offers a broad range of rapid prototyping, tooling and digital CAD software. In addition, Materialise prototypes and software have established a reputation in medicine and dentistry, with clinicians the world over using them in the most complex surgical cases. Its design products division concentrates on the development of rapid manufacturing. The company is privately owned with several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 300 people in its 4 divisions.* Materialise Industrial Services to "materialise" technical prototypes and small series through the most advanced prototyping and tooling techniques.
* Materialise Software to develop the technical software applications that allow a more efficient use of the rapid prototyping techniques.
* Materialise Medical to create medical models using these prototyping techniques and to develop medical software packages that are used by clinicians worldwide to assist them in the most complex cases of surgery.
* Materialise.MGX to manufacture design products for the end-user market. MGX is the youngest division and it draws on the knowledge and expertise of the prototyping division. |
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