Contract manufacturing — especially for smaller operations — is a game of profitable job portfolio management. The margins between competitive and non-competitive, successful, and unsuccessful are thinner than the metal chips the machines throw. Optimiz3D saw the opportunity to transform traditional contract manufacturing by integrating highly productive Additive Manufacturing into their process – enabling low-overhead, fast response and flexible manufacturing.Their goal was to maximize productivity and yield while also producing high-quality parts in less time with high machine utilization.