Pivot AM Service is sponsoring a good customer of ours: Agile Manufacturing, Inc.’s team Agile Racing in their quest to Race to Alaska, June 2026. Follow the team on Instagram @R2AK_Agile_Racing. The R2AK as it is known is a 750 mile race from Victoria, BC to Ketchikan, AK unassisted and no motors, only self propulsion…
How the NDAA Is Forcing Defense Contractors to Replace Chinese 3D Printers Earlier this year, a previous Pivot AM blog post discussed how the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now places restrictions on additive manufacturing equipment used by defense contractors. Under new provisions published in January, U.S. military organizations and Department of Defense (DoD)…
Pivot AM Service is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) happening this year in Reno, Nevada March 15th to 19th. The AMUG motto is For Users by Users and that is what Pivot is all about. We work with owners of 3D Systems and Stratasys machines like Fortus,…
Looking for an Alternative to the Formlabs Wash L and Cure L? Recently, we’ve seen an increase in engineers and manufacturers searching for alternatives to the Formlabs Wash L and Cure L post-processing stations, especially when they have multiple Formlabs machines producing parts. As resin 3D printing scales from prototyping to production, many teams start…
Defense Procurement and Chinese Printers If you were thinking about procuring machines like Bambu, Qidi, Creality, or any number of the cheap machines out of China it might be time to think twice. The recently published National Defense Authorization Act in section 849 states that the department of defense and contractors to it are prohibited…
Welcome to the first edition of the Extend the Life Fortus 360 / 400mc Series where we’ll be sharing success stories from the week previous’ service calls. What machines the Pivot team was working on, what they did, and how they got a Pivot customer’s critical path 3D printing technology back up and running. The…
Pivot AM Service, at this time, will NOT be increasing prices on Hardware, Spare Parts or Materials due to Trade Risks. Claiming it is not a price increase Stratasys introduced a 5% Trade Risk Surcharge May 27, 2025 on: Materials, Spare Parts and Hardware. Pivot AM Service is not currently seeing Trade based pricing pressures…
Gotta love the timing of the latest Stratasys announcement, on the heels of my blog post yesterday, that Stratasys Spare part and Labor pricing will increase 3%. An excerpt here: Dear Valued Customer, … Despite our best efforts in managing rising costs in labor, logistics and materials, we need to extend a marginal increase on…
Does anyone else find it ironic or disingenuous that Stratasys is now offering refurbished Fortus 360mc and 400mc machines? For two years the OEM was telling their customers these platforms would no longer be serviced and were being declared End of Life, ostensibly to garner trade ins and sell a new “upgraded” machine. Now the…
A customer wanted to try a new SLA material but didn’t want to bear the expense of a full fill of a Resin Delivery Module (RDM) aka Material Delivery Module (MDM) in a 3D Systems iPro 8000 SLA machine. Customer had a spare RDM so they hired Pivot to modify the RDM from a full…