TEARDOWN

Streamlining the 3D printing pipeline

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We helped a 3D printing team ship a single surface for the whole job lifecycle—ingest and slicing through live printer telemetry—so operators stop living across five tools.

Overview

Labs were juggling slicers, spreadsheets, and ad-hoc machine logs. The product makes operational truth visible: what is printing, what failed, and what needs a human—without another exported CSV.

  • Automated slice optimization with versioned job profiles
  • Real-time printer telemetry with routed alerts
  • Multi-user workspaces, roles, and audit-friendly history
TEARDOWN — mobile queue and alerts
TEARDOWN — slicer and job detail UI

From file to finished part—one queue.

Product strategy

We anchored the experience on three jobs-to-be-done: prep work quickly, keep the fleet honest, and explain failures in plain language. Every screen had to earn its place on a busy lab floor.

Design & systems

Dense telemetry stays legible with disciplined grids, inline sparklines, and progressive disclosure for gcode-level detail. Dark surfaces reduce glare beside machines; typography stays sharp for overnight shifts.

TEARDOWN — fleet overview screen

Impact

Fewer surprise failures by catching drift before scrap—not after.

Predictive hooks around temperature bands and layer anomalies gave teams an early nudge. The north star was calmer night shifts and less rework, not a louder wall of charts.

Single job timeline

Upload through QA with immutable history—handy when a client asks what changed between runs.

Fleet at a glance

Tiles for device health, resin or filament burn-down, and queue depth without jumping tabs.

Built for teams

Managers, operators, and partners share one language for priority, capacity, and blameless postmortems.

TEARDOWN — tablet floor view
TEARDOWN — operator context on the lab floor
TEARDOWN client testimonial

The dashboard gives supervisors enough context to understand an alert before they start calling around.

Jordan EllisHead of Manufacturing, TEARDOWN
TEARDOWN — brand-forward product moment

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Emailryan@lobster.digital
LocationOld St, London, UK
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