Located in Loveland, Colorado, Avid Product Development—a Lubrizol company—is a seasoned 3D printing service bureau with over a decade of experience. Specializing in parts for automotive, healthcare, jigs, and fixtures, Avid operates at the intersection of precision and production, delivering thousands to tens of thousands of components each week. But as customer demands shifted toward serial production, their traditional workflow began to show its limits.
The Challenge
How do you meet increasing demand for high-volume, multi-material prints—without burning out your team or sacrificing turnaround times? For Avid, the challenge was maintaining throughput while scaling. Manual job setup, round-the-clock supervision, and weekend staffing weren’t sustainable in the long term, especially with a growing need for design complexity and production flexibility.
The Solution
After two years of daily use, Mosaic’s Array platform became a core part of Avid’s manufacturing stack. With automated material handling, job queuing, and the ability to run unattended, even on weekends. Avid has turned what used to be a time-intensive, manual process into a flexible, scalable system; ideal for delivering serialized production runs at speed and scale.
“Array allows us to run flexible components on one printer while we’re running high-temp on another. Basically allowing us to fulfill multiple orders over a weekend without anybody come in on off-hours.”
CONNOR REDDINGTON
AVID (A LUBRIZOL COMPANY)
The Future
Avid doesn’t just see additive manufacturing as a prototyping tool—it’s part of their vision for the mainstream manufacturing future. With automation and reliability unlocked, they’re setting a new standard for what service bureaus can offer.
