Shaping 3D·Product design·2023
Designed software to run industrial 3D printers from anywhere.
40%
lower operating cost after launch
₹0
my fee if I failed to deliver, the offer that won the project
10 weeks
to ship it, start to finish
Context
This was my first project. The first project of my life, and the first thing I ever designed and shipped.
I had nothing to show him, so I asked the founder to bet on me: if I could not deliver, he paid me nothing. He took it.
A platform that runs an industrial 3D printing business. Printers, projects, materials and costs in one place, operable from anywhere in the world.
The challenge
Running the machines took a trained specialist. That made the business expensive to staff and impossible to watch remotely. The job was to turn an expert process into steps a non-expert could follow, without taking away anything the machines could do.
The outcome
- Anyone can operate the printers now. The steps are simple enough that a trained specialist is no longer a requirement, and the training that went with it is gone too.
- The printers can be watched from anywhere in the world: live status, temperature, material condition, and a camera on every print.
- Operating cost came down by around 40%, because the specialist was the expensive part.
- I won the project with an offer. If I could not deliver, they would not pay me. Ten weeks to ship, learning four hours a day next to six hours of building.
