7 GIGANTIC 3D Printer Farms Making Millions of Parts

3D Print Farms with hundreds of machines have been popping up all across the globe. These giant 3D Printer Farms are producing thousands of parts for all types of industries. Today we will discuss the top 7 companies leading the charge behind a new era of manufacturing.
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Slant 3D's Large-Scale 3D Print Farms utilize 1000's of FDM 3D printers working 24/7 to offer limitless scalability and unparalleled flexibility. Whether it's 100 or 100,000 parts, our system can handle it reliably, while still allowing for real-time design updates, ensuring products evolve with the times. This adaptability is key in today's fast-paced world.
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[@DIYGarage_SoCal]

I was lucky enough to to visit the Prusa facility and check out their new print farm a few months ago. Its very impressive to see so many printers churning out parts.

[@mururoa7024]

Video idea: Since you're building your own printers, it'd be interesting to hear what in your opinion are the essential features, properties and qualities an industrial printer needs to have.

[@kurtnelle]

+1 I would also like to know this information.

[@feli.x218]

Cloud and automated printing and good quality. So a bambu lab x1c is a good start

[@henkvanderbank808]

+1 would love to hear about the key differences, i.e. Motors, software, etc.

[@Liberty4Ever]

@@feli.x218 - Bwa ha ha. Carbon fiber rods for motion control is wearing in consumer 3D printing and is a non starter for an industrial print farm. The Bambu cloud is worse. Manufacturing industrial parts requires control of intellectual property. No non disclosure agreement is going to allow a 3D print farm to send the customer's proprietary part to a cloud server in China, and the Bambu Lab terms of use essentially resolves to All Your Designs Are Belong To Us. There's also the reliability issue of the Bambu server. It crashed last month, people tried uploading print jobs to their printer through the Bambu cloud but nothing happened. Hours later, in the middle of the night US time, Bambu Lab fixed their server and the Bambu Lab printers all over the world started printing those back logged parts. Many of these parts started printing on top of previously printed parts causing crashes, broken hot ends, etc.

[@Liberty4Ever]

I have no interest in running a commercial print farm but this video was fascinating. My goal is to keep my 3D printers busy making my own designs that I sell online. For me, 3D printing is a low cost way to manufacture in low volume for my home based business, but I love watching the large scale success of Slant 3D.

[@boko3155]

Would love to see a video talking about / dedicated to 3d printer design for print farms!!!

[@madderall_dot_com]

These are all really tiny operations compared to any truly industrial scale. I'm sure there's a very obvious tipping point for economies of scale where it makes a whole lot more sense to injection mold than 3d print despite the initial high cost of the molds.

[@DueyMiller-rk9dr]

Currently I have three machines. They are enders 3 neo's and two are the max running constantly. And I can personally say that running just two machines 24/7 is a pain in the butt. From the occasional part not sticking to the bed for no apparent reason to the bending of the cleaning needles or the fun part when you realize that nozzles are ware item kind of like tires on a car that need to be replaced after so many prints. I'm going a little crazy. And the sad part is that if my business picks up I will need more machines. But 500 plus machines? Is like a masochist wet dream.

[@slant3d]

The Megafarm is set up for 3000 machines

[@oneheadlight8000]

Man.. I thought we were doing good with 138 printers!

[@srikrishnasaichitakana773]

Are these large scale 3d printers? How many 3d printers can be handled by a single operator?

[@slant3d]

In our factories it is about 1 technician to 300 machines

[@srikrishnasaichitakana773]

@@slant3d These are small scale printing right??

[@srikrishnasaichitakana773]

Any idea if it is for large scale 3d printing. Like the no of technicians required?

[@atnfn]

The biggest print farm is "only" 1300 machines. Sure 1300 machines is a lot but considering one printer probably costs less than 1000 (they don't look that advanced, similar to ender 5 plus). So all their machines might cost less than 1 million. And that's the biggest in the world?

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

So even youtube experts are still getting fooled by the moonlamp 3d print charade too huh. Come on buddy, you're holding yourself out as an expert here.

[@9The0Unknown7]

Wanted to watch. But damn does your audio echo. Soundproof that room and get back to me

[@alike85]

Why is it called a farm and not a factory?

[@Etrehumain123]

The respectful part is you didn't made 50% about 6 print famrs, and 50% of advertising of your company. You are fair and that's nice

[@nickdarrow4873]

3DPrintedDebris = ~100 printers MadeInUrbana = ~100 printers Galactic Armory = ~85 printers WindArrow3d = ~65 printers

[@slant3d]

Good call. We tried to keep this video above 100 printers. But they are all great options for another video.

[@maxliberman9653]

Why 3DPrintedDebris stopped printing?

[@lajoyalobos2009]

Is it possible to do a video on the printers at Slant? Nothing too crazy but things like how it is built, what kind of hot end, bed surface, replacement parts (3d printed vs off the shelf) etc etc etc. Basically a video for us to geek out on and also maybe draw inspiration for our own printers for the cases when things from the hobby printer world overlaps with the printing farm world.

[@dudemithut1568]

Dude, that moon lamp thing is fake. You can even see the spherical spinning molds in the background. Not all manufacturer are fake, but this exact video is fake.

[@SirCutRy]

Where is the spinning mold?

[@roguecoyote1278]

@@SirCutRy 2:56

[@SirCutRy]

​@@roguecoyote1278 Thanks.

[@skyrider4789]

I wouldn’t say “fake”…just that the footage of post processing these isn’t accurate for the subject of 3D printing.

[@Gtmz53fxt56zxc]

Maker’s Muse did a video about the moon lamps baloney

[@markiverson367]

Lake Area Technical College has a farm of 50 Lulzbots including a metal and a carbon fiber Markforged printers. Students also each build a custom printer for class. With those they reach well over 100 printers.

[@Spacenoidx]

I love this so much.

[@RazDesignAB]

Cool video! The idea with print-farms and the fact you can actually make it work as not just a concept but a real business is so cool!

[@slant3d]

thank you

[@namstudio9666]

MVH studio in Lefkada-Greece has 185 3d printers that prints custom racing wheels

[@slant3d]

Thanks

[@ChromePhoenixQ]

Heard of a farm in Canada called polyvetica that's pretty low key but they pump out tens of thousands of parts every month. Some of the small businesses I shop at have their products made by them.

[@slant3d]

Thanks for letting us know. We will take a look for Part 2

[@alexecheverria]

I take my hat off to all those entrepreneurs who manage the output of more than one printer. I cannot control mine for consistent prints! Amateur!

[@livefree1030]

Hmmm. I thought is was bei g original. I've been 3d print farming for about 5 years. (10 printers). I own a maintenance company and I manufacture my own parts for the services to the customers fleet. Some parts cost me $40 and I resell with 20% mark up. But I can 3d print same component for $2.00

[@FriendshipLights]

Amazing video, Looking forward to more Slant3D content!

[@slant3d]

Thank you

[@thenextlayer]

Wow I had no idea you had such a massive farm. Cool!

[@slant3d]

Thanks

[@JasonCarpentier]

Invent3D has a pretty large farm if I remember from Joel checking them out. They are a mix of engineered repeatable parts and a 3d printing as a service. Pretty rad! Thanks for the view inside this market.

[@dennisraadschelders6821]

Signify has over 500 printers, biggest lighting company in world.

[@giedrius2149]

7:02 7:10 idk maybe you'd be better off with an off the shelf printer

[@daliasprints9798]

Really informative about the state of this stuff.

[@fish3dp372]

When are you going to open source your printers? I would love you build one.

[@OutsiderDreams]

I had the same question. Aside from Prusa i3 mk3 printers, I don't trust any others to be a proven workhorse. Would love to build a printer which has been proven in a print farm and the ones that Slant3d would be awesome.

[@fish3dp372]

@@OutsiderDreams Maybe he will be nice and send us the specs, stls....plans???

[@MrButuz]

Making and maintaining your own 3d printers must be absorbing so much of your operating revenue?

[@slant3d]

True. But it is necessary so that each product creator does not have to consider the operation of a printer farm. We are trying to build the infrastructure that makes it as easy to create a physical product as a to build a website. We're making a manufacturing backend.

[@iPrint3D]

Why is your top 7 backwards? Starting at number 1 first....

[@Stevens3D69]

I'm looking for a partner I only have one 3d printer and so many orders I can't fill

[@slant3d]

We can probably help with that. Go ahead and shoot over a quote request on the website.

[@ChrisLoew]

you should print a hat stand so your hat is not stretched out lolz

[@umiturgutaswwsa]

0:30 they are in fact all ender 5 plus.

[@GoodEnough030]

how to get lots of clients 🥺

[@MrFamousguy13]

Lolz bot is still alive lol completely forgot about them

[@efboiz5302]

0:34 bruh those just run of the mill creality E5+'s

[@jstro-hobbytech]

Theres one in Malta as well i believe

[@pzp6r8]

Audio too low

[@davideyt1242]

the printers of the first shown farm look to me like Ender3 V2s... or at least pretty close replicas of it, so what's the big deal with saying "they designed the printers them self" (they absolutely did not)

[@slant3d]

We think you are right. The version they designed did not publically make it to market. And it is unclear if the base machine was modified.

[@djispro4272]

The chinese moon lamps are semi 3d printed. You didn't notice the blue bucket of white and those metal spheres at 2:56 ? Maker's Muse made a whole video on them!

[@slant3d]

The Custom ones are printed the standard moons are rotationally molded.

[@morbus5726]

2:56 i think this might be a different video. You can see the spherical molds for the moon lamps.

[@Leviathan3DPrinting]

All those globes ate rotational molded. The molds are even in your video...

[@slant3d]

Only the generic versions. Every custom lamp is printed. That is why they have hundreds of 3D Printers as shown in the video

[@Leviathan3DPrinting]

@@slant3d sorry I just remember seeing a video calling them out for being fake. Tbh it doesn't matter I just have never seen someone actually purchase any custom ones to verify their claims. But I'm sure with such low production and such high demands the lead times are probably insane. I mean they have a lot of printers but they don't have 10,000 people just placed an order for 5 different custom globes amounts of printers.

[@Raz_Tactical]

When is your etsy API comign out? I'm a cad designer in UK and have some parts I would like to sell in USA. Would be interested in linking an on demand print farm to a store so that I can sell the parts abroad.

[@slant3d]

Etsy has very bad integrations so likely the Shopify will come out first.

[@Raz_Tactical]

@@slant3d good to know I'll be looking forward to it and in the meantime potentially set up a Shopify store. Would it be a matter of sending you a file once getting the price so that items can be priced on the store?

[@patrickbodine1300]

Ooh, *custom* moonlamps!🙄😏

[@kalovass9615]

Im printing one of those on my babmbu labs X1 right now. very cool.

[@creativitybyph]

Lostboys Lab in Malmö Sweden have over 200 printers

[@slant3d]

Good call. They downsized quite bit in the last year to focus on filament. But we will definitely look at them again with a new video.

[@maxliberman9653]

@@slant3d why some large print farms are closing down or changing business focus?

[@bsavage5128]

You definitely forgot the "other" print farms...

[@slant3d]

such as?

[@bretthays2674]

Xometry?

[@janickfricko6451]

nice video :D

[@slant3d]

Thanks for watching

[@morbus5726]

Have you taken a look at the bambu x1? Maybe that would be a good machine for a print farm.

[@tshackelton]

Bambu's X1 still has a lot to prove to even be a reliable consumer machine at this point. If you check their support forum, they are breaking and trying to patch them up using 3d printed parts. Not a great start... After a few iterations, they may work out the bugs, will have to see. Not even going into the closed sourced software and hurdles for that presents for automation. In this game, reliability and serviceability trumps all.

[@kalovass9615]

@@tshackelton I have not experienced these issues with my X1 Carbon, I have printed close 35KG of filament through it now and have had no severe problems. I did have a clogged nozzle but that was easy to fix. I will try to keep you posted.

[@ChazBword]

wow What a great video. Thanks

[@deeznuts23yearsago]

I know of a print farm owned by a youtuber galactic armoury