Print farms
Order numbers stay on the job from upload to pickup. Printers get their next job the moment they're cleared. And when a batch fails, you know which printer, which material, and how often.
Print farm management software runs the work around a production 3D printing fleet: taking in jobs, queueing them, sending them to printers, keeping order details attached, and reporting on what the fleet produced.
It sits above your slicer and printer software. The value is in the handoffs between them, where most throughput is actually lost.
Where time goes
Between jobs
The next eligible job goes out as soon as the plate is cleared.
After a failure
Reprint from the original job, with its file and settings.
At the bench
Pickup bins, labels and a scan on the way out.
At quoting time
Material and machine time recorded on every job.
Reporting
Jobs per day, split by outcome. Utilization and OEE per printer. Material by type and color. Filter by site, printer or project, and export what you find.
What's included
Order number, customer, work center. Whatever you already track, on every job.
Jobs with an earlier deadline go first at the same priority.
Site, model, availability and loaded material, checked before a job is sent.
Which printer, which material, how often. Patterns show up fast.
Material and machine time from every job, ready for your cost model.
Finished parts get a bin and a scan, so “done” means delivered.
Jobs, hours, success rate and utilization over any period.
FAQ
Including the cost-per-part math most people get wrong the first time.
Something else? Ask us directly.
Print farm management software runs the work around a production 3D printing fleet: taking in jobs, holding them in one queue, sending them to printers, keeping order numbers attached, recording what happened, and reporting on the fleet. It works alongside your slicer and printer software rather than replacing them.
Usually not the printers. It's the gap between one job ending and the next starting, failures noticed too late, material changes, and losing track of which finished part belongs to which order. Measure those before buying another printer.
Add up material, machine time, a share of failed attempts, the labor to start and clear jobs, maintenance and depreciation, and idle capacity. At a 10% failure rate, every good part carries about 11% more material and machine time than the file says. Counting only filament is why in-house printing often looks cheaper on paper than it is.
Yes. Add your own fields, like order number, customer or work center, and they stay on each job through printing, reprints and pickup, so everything for one order can be found together.
Pluraprint handles the queue and dispatch side. Running unattended also needs a safe equipment policy, a way to catch failures, and either automatic part removal or one job per printer until someone clears it. Those are decisions about your floor, not your software.
Track utilization with a clear definition of available time, idle time between jobs, failure rate by printer and material, and on-time completion against deadlines. On-time completion is what your customers feel; the rest explains it.
Tell us your fleet, your order volume and where work gets stuck. We'll walk through it in Pluraprint.