The French household electrical appliance market Boulanger teamed up with Cults3D to provide spare parts to everyone.
Together they launched happy3D a platform for 3D printable spare parts for the appliances Boulanger sells. For a long time many people thought 3D printing would revolutionise the spare part business and everyone will be able to 3D print spare parts right at home.
happy3D is actually the first program of a market to offer the digital blueprints for spare parts for free. If you haven’t access to a 3D printer happy3D will connect you to a owner of one.
Gaële Wuilmet, Director of Boulanger Services & Innovation and of B’dom:
“To slow product obsolescence, customers must be able to repair their own high-tech devices and household appliances. It’s in this spirt that Boulanger decided to launch the world’s first spare parts open source hub called the “Happy 3D” platform. This is the first time ever that a company has published the blueprints of its own exclusive brands for the general public. In doing so, Boulanger hopes that other major brands will soon follow our lead.
If our customers’ products break, they can now download a template for the replacement spare part, and easily manufacture them on a 3D printer.
To make up for a scarcity of 3D printers, Boulanger will also put its customers in contact with a nearby 3D printer owner and train them in how to print in 3D via B’dom.”
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