Proto Labs
Proto Labs Company works on solution that will radically reduce the time it took to get injection-molded plastic prototype parts. Their solution was to automate the traditional manufacturing process by developing complex software that communicated with a network of mills and presses. As a result, plastic and metal parts could be produced in a fraction of the time it had ever taken before.
In 2014, they launched industrial-grade 3D printing services to allow product developers, designers, and engineers an easier path to move from early prototyping to low-volume production.