#3DStartup: Spare Parts 3D on their 3D Software to Digitalise Spare Parts Easily

Over the last two years, Spare Parts 3D has worked at developing a 3D software to digitalise spare parts and establish a qualified network of production in over 70 countries across the world, therefore building a strong notoriety in the 3D printing industry of spare parts. We interviewed the founder, Paul Guillaumot, who told us how he established his company and his vision of the industry’s potential. The key is offering customisation by being able to provide tailor-made parts to both manufacturers and customers, enabling distributed production.

3DN: Could you present yourself as well as your link with 3D printing?

I am an engineer ‘Arts et Métiers’. I started my professional career first as a consultant for a big American company, Oliver Wyman, before following four collaborators in their entrepreneurial adventures to establish the consulting firm Theano advisors. I was their first employee and when I left two years later, we were 40 consultants, it was a pleasant experience.

After three years of consulting, I wanted to focus on something more concrete, more operational. Given my educational background, I knew about 3D printing technologies and I had always followed their development because I firmly believed in their capacity at drastically changing production thanks to more flexibility and most importantly the opportunity to decentralise production.