3iD Printing Bets on Automated Post-Processing to Scale Production Volumes

3iD Printing, a Belgian industrial 3D printing service provider, is installing an automated post-processing line supplied by Netherlands-based AM-Flow, integrating three systems, AM-Feed, AM-Vision and AM-Sort, to handle part feeding, identification and sorting without manual labeling.

Closing the Post-Processing Bottleneck

While 3D printing technology has advanced rapidly across the additive manufacturing industry, the steps that come after a part leaves the 3D printer have lagged behind. Identifying and sorting finished parts by hand remains one of the most labor-intensive stages of production, and as manufacturers scale up volume, that manual step increasingly caps how much a facility can actually ship. 3iD’s new line addresses this challenge, aiming to cut repetitive manual handling,