In recent years, 3D printing technologies have seen remarkable advancements, making it possible for anyone to create complex objects from basic materials anywhere in the world. With this ever-improving technology, 3D printing has become a powerful and disruptive force in numerous industries, poised to cause a global shift in production dynamic structures. To reach this huge global market potential, companies across the 3D printing sector must ensure language access to all their products, operating manuals and digital materials for customers worldwide. Considering the technically complex nature of precision 3D printing, simple translation is not enough to ensure that all critical information is clearly understandable across language and cultural barriers. This is where CSOFT International’s 3D printing localization services come into play: leveraging teams of experienced linguists and subject matter experts in 250+ countries to accurately adapt all materials to native languages. Equipped with high-quality localization, companies across the 3D printing industry can facilitate the global spread of their powerful technologies that are already changing the possibilities of small-scale and at home production and manufacturing.
Localization for Hobbyists: Supporting Global 3D Printing for Consumers
Bambu Lab’s A1 Combo 3D Printer
The greatest impact of the emerging 3D printing industry has been on hobbyist consumers worldwide, causing a paradigm shift in the possibilities of at home, DIY fabrication. With newer printers becoming cheaper and more capable while remaining a countertop appliance, access to powerful 3D printers has never been more accessible to a wider audience. For example, the Bambu Lab A1 Combo, an entry level printer with several efficiency, precision and autocorrecting functions, retails for just $499. This sub $500 price tag lowers the barrier to entry for powerful printing technology not just for younger hobbyists, but also for schools and other programs that target STEM development of youths. Due to the complex technical nature of this precision machinery, all 3D printing support materials must be translated and culturally adapted to be fully understandable to every user demographic. It is crucial to properly localize such materials to enable all hobbyists, at every age and skill level, to create with limitless possibilities. For companies in the consumer 3D printing industry, localization also comes with the added benefits of increased global customer satisfaction, improved brand loyalty and rapid international product adoption.
Global Enterprise 3D Printing: Enabling Small-Scale or Special Production with Localization
In addition to hobbyists, 3D printing has largely changed the landscape of small scale, in-house production for enterprises of all sizes and throughout many industries. Enterprise use of 3D printing ranges from rapid prototyping for R&D, the in-house production of complex parts and even making small scale or custom production runs feasible. Localization is relevant in all these cases: facilitating seamless collaboration and communication for international research, enabling accurate creation of objects with foreign specifications and to more accurate customization of products for specific demographics and markets. Serving in all these functions, localization support can enable cost savings throughout enterprise use of 3D printing by increasing internal production capabilities and reducing reliance on outsourcing. In addition to in-house printing, enterprises can utilize 3D printing-based manufacturing services, such as Protolabs, which offer fast and high-quality production of parts utilizing their own 3D printing facility. Localization can help any enterprise using 3D printing to adapt technical documentation and operational manuals for various regional standards and languages, in addition to ensuring cultural relevance for all customer-facing products and communications. Overall, 3D printing localization services can help enterprises harness the full potential of 3D printing via improved ability to leverage global markets, international recourses and enhancing appeal and functionality for markets worldwide.
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3D Printing Localization for Health and Safety Compliance
At the true cutting edge of the life and healthcare sciences, 3D printing applications in biotech and medical device production are changing the possibilities of personalized treatment. In this field, 3D printing companies such as Materialise are applying advanced technologies to enable healthcare workers and medical device companies to achieve a previously impossible level of customized care for patients. The key to its immense potential in medical applications is the level of rapid personalization that 3D printing and scanning can offer. For example, Materialise’s Point-of-Care 3D Printing services allow for end-to-end personalized patient care, from acquisition and segmentation, virtual planning, design and 3D printing to post-processing and quality assurance. Click here to read more about Materialise’s Point-of-Care 3D Printing services.
The health and life sciences sector faces strict regulations from international and regional regulatory bodies, which require localized translations to ensure that all information and documentation are accessible in the local language. To deploy 3D printing and scanning technology to medical centers around the world, all related health and safety guidelines, operational instructions, patient outcome reports, and regulatory documents must be translated for local regulations. To ensure positive patient outcomes, accuracy in language and cultural context is of the upmost importance for successful product usage in diverse markets. By utilizing localization services for 3D printing technology, enterprises can expect increased trust from healthcare providers and patients, in addition to smoother regulatory approval processes in new markets.
Localized Marketing and Outreach for 3D Printing Products
To pursue true globalization, companies in the 3D printing industry must look to localization services to tailor marketing strategies and communications to reach specific demographics. Specifically, CSOFT’s in-country translators and linguists ensure the highest accuracy when it comes to adapting both language and cultural contexts for marketing materials, campaigns and messaging to resonate with local audiences. This localized approach helps 3D printing enterprises showcase real-world applications of 3D printing at a local level, demonstrating the technology’s potential to meet region-specific needs. When capitalizing on a competitive global market, localization can also provide an edge in customer engagement and product demand through relatable, more culturally relevant marketing.
Building a Global Network with Localized 3D Printing File Sharing
Among the most disruptive elements of advancing 3D printed technology is the worldwide community of creators and engineers it has created, who share open-source printing files. Facilitating this global network of innovators are companies such as Onshape, a computer aided design (CAD) and software as a service (SAAS) platform for hobbyists and enterprise use. From crowd sourced prototyping to customizing existing designs for personal use, the file sharing community for 3D printing is spreading open access to complex manufacturing projects, expanding the possibilities of at home creation anywhere in the world. To effectively connect innovators around the globe, however, companies like Onshape must translate their platform UI, file descriptions, user reviews, and community guidelines for an international audience. Considering the additional need of cultural adaptation of design libraries and tutorials to reflect diverse creative approaches and user needs, full localization services are the only way to ensure universal access to all innovators no matter their language or cultural background. By fostering this vibrant global community of collaborator across borders via localization, 3D printing file sharing platforms can capitalize on global market shares and increase user satisfaction. Moreover, these global platforms already possess the power to inspire innovators everywhere, and with localization, can ensure language and cultural barriers do not inhibit access to 3D printing resources.
Choosing CSOFT for 3D Printing Localization Solutions
Overall, 3D printing technology is currently changing what is considered possible for small scale or at home manufacturing but can only reach its transformative potential on a global scale with the help of localization. Being highly technical in nature, all applications of 3D printing technology require precise translation of operating manuals, supporting documents and UI platforms for both hobbyist and enterprise use. Not only does localization support for 3D printing enable language accessibility and global use, but it is also a strategic investment that enables 3D printing technology to reach new markets and industries. For all these purposes, CSOFT International’s 3D printing localization services can help any enterprise maximize their global reach and impact to engineer a better future.
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