Realize Inc. Expands Stereolithography Capabilities With iPro 8000 Printer

With the addition of an iPro 8000 SLA Production Printer, Realize Inc. continues to emerge as a leader in the rapid prototyping industry. “The 8000 gives us more large part capacity,” said Todd Reese, President of Realize. “It also allows us to expand our material offerings for large pieces.”

Based near Indianapolis, Realize creates customized rapid prototypes of products for clients in numerous industries, including consumer electronics, automotive, health care and education. The company has created prototypes for a vast variety of products — from gaming figurines to wind tunnel automobile models and intricate machine parts.

Customers use these prototypes for design verification; they can use the custom model created at Realize to determine if their design is valid before incurring the expense of going into full production.

Realize has become a national leader in Stereolithography (SLA), which involves using lasers to selectively and successively cure thin layers of specialized liquid resins — creating a precise, custom prototype reproduction of the 3D modeled design. The company’s new iPro 8000 is a state-of-the-art SLA machine that increases the company’s production capacity, including the ability to react more quickly to aggressive delivery requests.

Realize now has a total of 11 Stereolithography machines in its SLA lab, each affectionately named after a supermodel. These machines include seven Viper SLA systems, two SLA-5000 Systems, the iPro 8000 and an iPro 9000. While the iPro and SLA-5000 systems handle larger parts, the smaller Viper systems can reproduce small parts with extremely fine detail, and are capable of a high resolution mode that can reproduce even finer detail.

“We have the latest technology,” said Tonya Reese, Chief Financial Officer of Realize. “That’s something that sets us apart from many of our competitors.”

Founded in 1999, Realize, respected as a premier rapid prototyping company, is one of the industry’s largest companies in the Midwest.
Other Realize services include Industrial Design, Computer Aided Design, Rubber Molding & Urethane Casting (RTV), and Custom Finishing and Painting. Learn more about Realize at www.realizeinc.com