AdditiveDelivery, or how to get the part without buying the machine

There's a conversation that repeats itself at every trade fair. Someone stands in front of the ALBA, asks the right questions, understands perfectly what it's for, and in the end says the same thing: "right now I can't buy a machine, but I need the part".

For years that conversation ended there.

What is AdditiveDelivery

A made-to-order manufacturing service that distributes the work among shop floors that already have one of our machines. You upload the geometry, we give you a price and delivery time, you choose when you want it, and it arrives manufactured, with its process report.

The process consists of seven steps and is published in its entirety, with names and those responsible, on the service page.

Why this is not a supplier directory

Because the problem with manufacturing networks isn't finding someone to print: it's that the same file produces a different result in each shop floor. Each one has its own machine, its own slicer, and its own parameters, so the part you receive depends on who printed it.

Not here. All the shop floors in the network manufacture with an ALBA, generate the work with SamyStudio, and run the same parameter file that we calibrate. They're not just similar: it's the same file. That's the only reason we dared to set this up, and it's something only someone who has developed the entire technological chain can offer.

Nobody bids on the price

It's the hardest decision we've made, and the one we're happiest about. On a typical network, you request quotes from five shop floors and you get five figures that you can't compare, because each one has estimated it in their own way.

At AdditiveDelivery the price is calculated:

Cost calculated by SamyQuote, with the actual process parameters, plus a margin that depends on urgency, geometric risk, alloy, quality requirement, post-processing and quantity, plus shipping, at cost.

The network's shop floors don't offer a price quote: they charge a pre-agreed hourly rate for machine use. Their only competitive advantage is availability, because that's the only real differentiator when the machine, software, and parameters are the same.

The result is what we were aiming for: the same part costs the same whether it comes from Bilbao or Porto. What does change is when you want it, and that difference is also explained, because a build costs almost the same with one part as with fifteen.

What does a shop floor gain from an ALBA

A machine that's idle represents lost revenue for its owner and lost capacity for the market. The network puts into circulation the hours that are currently unused, with the work already analyzed, oriented, and with the parameters set, and billing Samylabs instead of the end customer.

Non-exclusive and with no obligation to accept anything.

Where did the idea come from?

From the business and web developer who is assisting us in this transformation. He started looking at the website to gather information, and on the second day this appeared: the complete service and its operation, the seven-step process, the automatic assignment to collaborators, the timeframe options, and the decision to have the price generated by the calculation engine and not by an auction.

And he presented the two services, this one and SamyQuote, as SaaS: not as marketing campaigns, but as self-sustaining products that also convert our installed base into production capacity.

It's a change in the way the company thinks, more than just a new website: we've gone from selling machines to also selling what comes out of them.

We are opening the network shop floor by shop floor. If you have an ALBA and want to join, write to us.

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