站f, billed as Paris’s answer to Silicon Valley, is a 34,000 square meter startup campus in France. With investment from billionaire Xavier Niel,站fwas officially opened by France’s President Emmanuel Macron in June 2017.
There are over 3,000 desks available at the Station F campus. To support entrepreneurial activity at the former rail freight depot programs from Facebook, BNP Paribas, Thales and Niel’s own venture capital firm,Kima Ventures可用。
NowUsine io，产品开发咨询服务已推出了第二版焦点启动加速器程序。在几个月的时间里，一组选择的硬件初创公司将可以访问USINE IO的产品开发专业知识。今年的重点是行业4.0，该计划将得到支持Sculpteo, digital manufacturing and online 3D printing service provider.
我问克莱门特·莫罗,Sculpteo CEO and co-founder, about how 3D printing is accelerating product development and can be used as a tool for hardware startups.
3D打印行业: For a long time, the majority of start-ups have been focused on software. What are your thoughts about how access to 3D printing can encourage a new wave of hardware based start-ups?
Clément Moreau:我们认为3D打印（R）演变的好处与过去几十年来高级编程语言给计算机科学带来的好处非常相似。然而hundreds of crafted programmers[PDF]需要创建一个科技产品70’s or 80’s, a single MBA student in a dorm can create a successful website or mobile app today.
3D printing is (at least partially) the same for mechanical part of a hardware startup, it enables non-experienced people to start developing their own mockups, enclosure, and hardware device.
Of course at some point you still need a good mechanical engineer or designer if you want to be very precise, but a software engineer, a graphic designer or a MBA-graduate CEO is able to start and field test its very own design for his product, before she needs to raise money from business angels. This is a game changer.
3DPI:您能为我们提供一些特定的初创企业示例，通过使用3D打印更好，更快地开发？
Clément Moreau:我们的许多客户实际上使用3D打印来开发其产品。例如，Svarmiis a company which produces drones thanks to additive manufacturing. They even told us that using this manufacturing technique helped them save 40% of time in their product development process.
另外，工业设计师Gabriel Boutin创建了Kupol，这是一家创建的初创公司3D printed bike helmets。他不仅将这项技术用于生产，而且还用于原型制作。他向我们解释说，这是一项真正的资产，比其他技术比其他技术更快，高效，成本更低，帮助他开发自己的产品。
3DPI:您希望看到更多的启动项目是什么？
Clément Moreau:我们认为初创企业有可能改变日常生活。硬件初创公司对此特别有趣。我们认为，3D打印和相关技术是创造更多大小和大型工业参与者的关键推动力。
消费者物联网，工业物联网，个性化医疗设备……这些是我们希望成倍增长的非常有趣的领域！
3DPI: Can you tell us more about the factory in the cloud please?
Clément Moreau:云中的工厂是任何人都可以使用基于云的制造服务（例如Sculpteo的在线3D打印服务）制造自己的产品的概念。当我说“任何人”时，初创公司当然包括在内！对制造技术的访问已简化，这是新业务的主要资产。
Usine ioplays its role of accelerator and innovator with an all-in-one manufacturing service integrated with Sculpteo. Startups can develop better, and faster. The factory in the cloud allows startups to overcome the constraints of manufacturing, such as the fees of the dedicated engineering departments or the round trips to the offshore factories. Hardware startups can develop functional products and test their real-world usage at a much higher pace!
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