Press Release: Core3dcentres North America Announces Transfer of Dekema Equipment Sales and Service

Press Release: Core3dcentres North America Announces Transfer of Dekema Equipment Sales and Service

Core3dcentres North America to Take Over Dekema Equipment Sales and Service from Jensen Dental

Troy, MI – June 12, 2019 – Core3Dcentres, LLC is pleased to announce the transfer of DEKEMA equipment service from
Jensen Dental to Core3D for North America.

Over the past few months, Jensen and Dekema have been actively training Core3D to handle all aspects of equipment services, part sales, including troubleshooting, diagnosis and repair of all DEKEMA firing, pressing and sintering furnaces. During the initial transfer, Jensen will continue to work with our team for a smooth transition.

We understand the importance your dental equipment and its performance plays in your laboratory. If you have any questions regarding this transition, please contact our Dekema Service and Support team at (833) 248-5159.

Sincerely,

Your Core3D Centres Team.

About Core3dcentres

Represented on the four continents, Core3dcentres is a global company that is committed to leading the dental industry in the digital era.

We believe in excellence in dentistry and patient care. By personalising digital technology, we provide a complete work-flow and production solution, making the benefits available to everyone, resulting in a partnership for success.

Core3dcentres operates as an open platform, providing solutions that guarantee a digital workflow for anyone in the dental market place. There are no limitations for our partners or on the type of solution they choose to employ.

Furthermore, we are a company with a fast-growing presence in the international marketplace, reflected in our rapidly expanding customer base and workforce, a worldwide professional network, and a constant exchange of knowledge through our leading-edge training and educational programmes. All these aspects make Core3dcentres the global leader – consistently embracing, adapting and applying the benefits of the technological shift to digital dentistry.

Our locations: Australia, Benelux Union (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Canada, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.A.

About Dekema

An avant-garde in the specialised field of dental ceramic furnaces, DEKEMA Dental-Keramiköfen has reinforced its track record with the release of the AUSTROMAT series i of furnaces that paves the way for the many benefits of a digital dental lab. Unveiled in 2017, the AUSTROMAT i-furnaces are the first in the world to offer the capabilities of stream firing, pressing and sintering cycles.

Dental laboratories and large milling centres have come to rely on DEKEMA’s family of AUSTROMATs for their highly intuitive user interface, outstanding firing and pressing results, and superior reliability. Even the German company’s original firing furnace, AUSTROMAT 2001 A, continues to be used in many laboratories around the world today, marking approximately 50 years of operation.

Fitted with digital intelligence hardware and software, DEKEMA’s furnaces are easy to troubleshoot and can be remotely operated using any smartphone or personal computer. This technique now fulfils its role inside DEKEMA’s new, state-of-the-art 3D DLP printer, rounding out the claim of DEKEMA as the digital forerunner that brings analogue techniques into the digital dental world.

Carbon and Core3dcentres® Announce Global Enterprise Partnership

Carbon and Core3dcentres® Announce Global Enterprise Partnership

Carbon and Core3dcentres® Announce Global Enterprise Partnership

Building on its existing partnership, the companies will offer affordable additive manufacturing solutions to dental labs around the world.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & MAARTENSDIJK, Netherlands–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carbon (www.carbon3d.com), a Silicon Valley-based digital manufacturing company, and Core3dcentres® (Core3d), a global company committed to leading the dental industry into the digital era by providing dental production and design solutions, today announced the international expansion of their existing and trusted partnership. By expanding their collaboration into countries spanning four continents, dental labs across the world will now have access to Carbon’s groundbreaking 3D printing systems based on its proprietary Digital Light Synthesis™ technology and unparalleled range of materials.

This comes at a time of massive growth for 3D printing in the dental market – which, according to a 2018 report from SmarTech Publishing, grew by over 35 percent for the second year in a row, and will continue to grow at a dramatic pace in the coming years. To capitalize on the growing market opportunity, Core3d and Carbon have agreed to expand their enterprise partnership to countries around the globe, enabling the delivery of Core3d and Carbon printed products to Australia, Benelux Union (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Canada, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.A. Timing for expansion into new countries will be dependent on regulatory requirements and approval.

“The dental industry’s use of additive manufacturing has skyrocketed over the last couple of years, but it wasn’t always like that. For some time, dental labs were plagued by 3D-printed parts that were inconsistent and poorly made with a limited range of materials, but that’s all changed with Carbon,” said Mark Maier, Managing Director of Global at Core3d. “We’ve seen tremendous success deploying Carbon’s technology in the U.S. – high throughput, accuracy of prints using durable, high-quality materials, constant uptime, first-class education and customer support. We want to implement the same success in our dental labs around the world.”

With the ability to produce end-use parts quickly, accurately, and consistently using Carbon’s additive manufacturing technology, Core3d has made products such as surgical guides and dentures more affordable across the board. This democratizes 3D printing technology for all types and sizes of dental labs, which look to Core3d to help them manufacture parts they can’t or don’t have the resources to produce in-house. For Core3d, Carbon has also improved turnaround time and the diversity of its offerings.

“Core3d is at the forefront of innovation in digital dentistry, and Carbon is thrilled to expand our partnership in support of our shared global vision and commitment to the continuing development and enhancement of the digital ecosystem,” said Brian Ganey, General Manager of Carbon’s Dental Business. “The age of digital 3D Manufacturing is here, and Carbon is redefining what’s possible with a complete dental solution that delivers on the promise of digital fabrication for production at scale.”

Carbon offers a revolutionary alternative to 3D printing, using light and oxygen to rapidly produce high-quality, end-use products from a pool of resin. Its robust and reliable family of 3D printers based on proprietary Digital Light Synthesis technology, coupled with its broad portfolio of materials, deliver a complete solution for all dental production needs. Carbon’s solution significantly improves efficiency and accuracy, reduces time from design to manufacture, and provides important features such as part traceability and serialization through next-gen software design tools. With Carbon, everything is digitally traceable, down to a unique ID that can automatically be engraved or embossed on any part. This capability is particularly valuable for highly regulated industries like dental, where the FDA will increasingly require part-specific data to ensure product performance and patient safety.

Further, Carbon’s unique subscription-based service closely aligns the company to its customers’ business success. By providing regular over-the-air software updates, continuous education and training programs, and one-to-one customer service and support, Carbon ensures every customer’s business is always up and running.

For more information, visit www.carbon3d.com and www.core3dcentres.com.

About Core3dcentres

Represented on the four continents, Core3dcentres is a global company that is committed to leading the dental industry in the digital era.

We believe in excellence in dentistry and patient care. By personalising digital technology, we provide a complete work-flow and production solution, making the benefits available to everyone, resulting in a partnership for success.

Core3dcentres operates as an open platform, providing solutions that guarantee a digital workflow for anyone in the dental market place. There are no limitations for our partners or on the type of solution they choose to employ.

Furthermore, we are a company with a fast-growing presence in the international marketplace, reflected in our rapidly expanding customer base and workforce, a worldwide professional network, and a constant exchange of knowledge through our leading-edge training and educational programmes. All these aspects make Core3dcentres the global leader – consistently embracing, adapting and applying the benefits of the technological shift to digital dentistry.

Our locations: Australia, Benelux Union (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Canada, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.A.

About Carbon

Carbon’s mission is to reinvent how polymer products are designed, engineered, manufactured, and delivered, toward a digital and sustainable future. Based in Silicon Valley, Carbon brings together innovations in hardware, software, and molecular science to deliver industry-leading digital manufacturing solutions. With Carbon’s ground-breaking Digital Light Synthesis™ technology and broad family of programmable liquid resins, manufacturers can unlock new business opportunities such as mass customization, on-demand inventory, and previously impossible product designs. Carbon’s solutions allow customers to build uniquely differentiated products while reducing waste and speeding time to market. To learn more, visit www.carbon3d.com.

Connect with Core3D:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Core3DCentresNA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/core3dcentres

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Core3DCentresNA/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/core3dcentresnorthamerica/

Connect with Carbon:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Carbon

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Carbon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrintCarbon

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Carbon

Contacts

Core3dcentres
Greg Harris
greg@core3dcentres-na.com
or
Carbon
Sarah Tolle
stolle@carbon3d.com

Analog is Not the Opposite of Digital

Analog is Not the Opposite of Digital

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Analog Is Not the Opposite of Digital

You’re Doing it Wrong.

Many of us in the dental field have been using the word ‘analog’ improperly. We often refer to analog technologies as being anything preceding digital technology. That’s definitely not the case. So this post is to collectively save us all from ever sounding stupid to technology nerds ever again. And don’t worry, it’s not just us, I’ve seen the same mistake made in the New York Times.

I recall a video that referred to 1950’s classrooms as ‘analog learning’ as opposed to our modern classrooms’ use of computers and the internet. I’ve heard the work of contemporary digital artists and designers compared to the ‘analog art’ of painters. The real kicker, and reason for this post, is those who position traditional handmade work as the ‘analog’ opposite of digital dental technology.

Handmade isn’t Analog.

Restorations that are handmade are not analog, period. As an analogy, I recently picked up a used Canon Rebel G from the ’90s used to shoot film. I have had a digital SLR from Canon for years now, and they’re obviously extremely different. But we have to be careful not to confuse ‘old’ and ‘new’, with two very specific terms like analog and digital.

The word digital, to most people, refers to a device that can capture, store, or display data in a binary fashion. Ones and zeros, on and off, digital is all about numbers. Digital shouldn’t be confused with binary, of course, as digital simply means concrete values. The root word is digits, after all. Any system that utilizes solid values (or digits) is digital, binary is simply the most common system. Digital cameras, and conversely digital 3d scanners capture light with a sensor, that light is converted into data (numbers), so the use of the word ‘digital’ for your cell phone camera, DSLR, or 3shape is accurate.

Analog, however, is a very abused word. I would venture a guess that the significant amount of technicians have used the word ‘analog’ to refer to anything done traditionally. If the new, fancy robot 3D scanners are ‘digital’ then our aging techniques are ‘analog’, right? Not at all. Leaning back on the camera analogy: Older cameras capture light with film, which is basically plastic, gelatin, and silver halide. When you take a photo (perhaps of an aesthetic full mouth restoration), photons hit this material and produce a latent (invisible) image, that can later be brought into view by bathing the film in various chemicals. You could write hundreds of blog posts on film development alone, but the point is that film photography is a chemical process. Conversely, when you stack porcelain, or process a denture, the materials go through various chemical and physical changes.

Digital 3D scanners and traditional techniques are quite different, but I’d rather hear the word ‘chemical’, ‘organic’, or ‘magic’ given to traditional techniques before ‘analog’.

 

Wait, What is Analog Then?

Analog, as its name suggests, refers to being analogous to something. If we’re referring to the adjective used in technology, the definition of analog is:

Of, relating to, or being a device in which data are represented by continuously variable, measurable, physical quantities, such as length, width, voltage, or pressure. – Wordnik

So a great example of an analog technology would be a vinyl record. The audio is stored as waves (variable data) within the grooves of the vinyl. Digital audio stores the data as numbers, as finite units of data per second found in mp3s and CDs. What’s important is that a vinyl record is legitimately something that deserves to be called ‘analog’. Dentures are not. Dentures and the techniques used to fabricate them are physical and chemical, there is no data (waves or otherwise) to be found as there would be on the record.

Plenty of older (and current) technologies are analog. Just be sure to ask yourself if that device has variable signals/data, or if that device is just really old. A television with a cathode ray tube (CRT) is an analog device; a cave painting of a man stabbing a mastodon with a spear is not. Ironically, CNC machines and 3D printers take digital signals and use transducers, pulse width modulation (PWM), or variable frquency drives (VFD) to produce analog signals that drive the spindles or lasers that ultimately produce a restoration. Those restorations are technically physical “analogs” of their corresponding digital designs.

Stop Saying Analog?

I know its hip to be anti-digital sometimes. But before we all drink a PBR and hop on our fixed gear bikes to the thrift store, we have to remember that just because something is old, that doesn’t make it ‘analog’. 35MM cameras, oscilloscopes, and the cotton gin are all old technologies, but only one of them is an analog device.

We pride ourselves in the dental lab industry for knowing tons of interesting things about art, science, and technology, but this is one adjective we should all cut back on a bit. The good news is we will always have our favorite noun: analogue! We can still say: “A picture is an analogue of a memory”, or “A cubic zirconia is an analogue of a diamond”, and “Cerec is an analogue of real lab work.”