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GE-Healthcare opens first European 3D-printing/design center (in Sweden)

New center in Uppsala, Sweden will apply 3D printing and other techniques to speed up innovation and simplify complex manufacturing processes

At genewsroom.com - GE Healthcare opens its first European 3D printing and design center - October 3, 2017

“We are exploring opportunities where additive can bring cost savings and technical improvements to our supply chain and products” explains Andreas Marcstrom, Manager of Additive Engineering at GE Healthcare’s Uppsala site. “Simply printing a part doesn’t really deliver that much improvement to a product or process. You have to re-think the entire design – to do this, you need your R&D teams and your additive manufacturing engineers working from the start of the development process – our center in Uppsala ensures that critical step.”
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The GE Healthcare Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team have also developed and programmed multiple cobots which are now installed across GE Healthcare factories globally and are improving efficiency in production lines. Many are part of GE Healthcare’s development of Brilliant Factories – plants that combine continuous improvement and digital to operate more efficiently and with higher quality.

The center in Uppsala joins GE Healthcare’s other advanced manufacturing and engineering center which is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The teams in Uppsala will collaborate with those at the Milwaukee center, sharing knowledge and working on new design ideas.

GE Healthcare is one of six GE businesses today using additive applications. GE seeks to grow its new additive business to $1 billion by 2020; GE Additive is planning to sell 10,000 additive machines over the next 10 years.