3D Scanners

manufacturers and distributors

I   3D Scanner Market Overview

1. Current Status and Future Outlook of 3D Scanner Market
2. Trends in Short-distance 3D Scanner Market
3. Trends in Long-distance 3D Scanner Market

II   Trends and Outlook of Market Players

Pulstec Industrial Co.,Ltd.

• Since FY2012 products with 3D scanners installed in FA devices have been sold well.
• Demands from Automobiles and autopart manufacturers and other companies have recovered.
• Differentiation from other competitives with patented function "FPC (Field Power Control)"
• The sales in FY2013 are estimated to reach 140 machines or 355 million yen (106.1%, 105.3% of the previous fiscal year, respectively.)

Marubeni Information Systems Co.,Ltd.

• The company has launched a new series "ATOS CORE" in July 2013.
• The company achieved smaller, lighter and lower costs for the products with top performance. Closed distributor agreement with GOM in 1999.
• Technology that attains 120 million pixels of resolution improves data reproducibility
• The sales in FY2013 is estimated to reach 180 machines or 2,160 million yen (156.5％, 110.5％ of the previous fiscal year, respectively)

Data Design Co., Ltd.

• Scheduled to ship "Artec Spider" in September, 2013
• Products with high-precision measurement functions respond to demands from industrial products and reverse engineering.
• The sales in FY2013 is estimated to reach 120 machines or 300 million yen (141.2％, 140.8％ of the previous fiscal year, respectively)
• The sales targets are general manufacturers, heavy industries, medical　&　healthcare, and others.
• The company is promoting hybrid 3D scanners equipped with handy and standing type.

Space Vision Incorporated

• The company has planned to launch new smaller, lighter, lower-price product in autumn 2013.
• The sales price is planned to be at the level of 2 million-yen, less the half the current price.
• Major customers are fitness/apparel/beauty/medical industries,　universities and other R&D institutes.
• The sales in FY2013 are estimated to attain 120 machines or 360 million yen, growing twice as large as the previous fiscal year.

3D Systems Japan (former Rapidform Japan K.K.）

• After acquired by 3D Systems, the company has begun software and contents business.
• By attracting customers of 3D printers, the 3D scanner "NextEngine" has been sold well
• The sales in FY2013 is estimated to reach 100 machines or 45 million yen (125.0％, 125.0％ of the previous fiscal year, respectively)

TOPCON CORPORATION

• In addition to its own mid-distance brand, it has started to handle FARO's "Focus3D" from early 2013.
• The company has acquired distribution right in the fields of domestic civil engineering, construction and measurement survey.
• Focus3D is light (5kg), compact (24×20×10cm) and speedy in measuring.
• The company plans to sell products for construction and measurement survey in Asian countries, where more growth can be expected.
• The company is also developing business of disaster prevention diagnosis for local and national governments.

Leica Geosystems

• The company released "Leica ScanStation P20" in March 2013
• The company has been trying to attract new users by using maximum 120 meters of measurement distance technology.
• The sales in FY2013 is estimated to be 24 machines or 240 million yen (120.0％, 120.0％ of the previous fiscal year, respectively)
• Heavy industries and food& beverage markets have also been target customers.

Opton

• The company aims to contribute in backup and support for manufacturers.
• Favorable sales for new products "3D Camera Series" and "3D Dual Forma Measurement Devices"
• The sales in FY2013 is estimated to be 20 machines or 200 million yen (250.0％, 204.1％ of the previous fiscal year, respectively)
• The company has largely improved the sales efficiency by creating trouble-shooting-type proposal documents.

RIEGL JAPAN LTD.

• The company succeeded in developing 3D laser scanners in 1998.
• The company provides variety of long-distance-measurement-type 3D scanners.
• The company use V-Line technology, which combines the original echo-digital processing and online waveform analysis.
• The price varies from 38 million to 25 million yen.
• The sales in FY2013 are estimated to be 7 machines or 140 million yen.
• Customers are mainly measurement companies, public offices (disaster prevention organizations), and universities (R&D organizations)

Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha

• With its base business sets to be plants measurement, the company aims to support industries of nuclear power, iron and steel, chemical, oil, and automobiles.
• The company dissolved the exclusive contracts with Zoller & Froehlich GmbH that had lasted for a decade.
• The sales price of Imager5006h will be halved to 6 million yen from 12 million y en.
• The sales in FY2012 was mainly from plant measurement companies and MMS (Mobile Mapping System) companies
• The company expects sales from new products and applications in FY2013
• The sales of 3D scanners are consisted from the sales from hardware and software.
• The products are adopted in on-site investigation of crimes and accidents.

Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation

• The company has provided extensive measurement solutions by flexibly combining and utilizing its six 3D scanners.
• The number of projects has exceeded 500 since the company started the service. The company has launched the services using 3D laser scanners in around 2001.
• More than 80% of customers are repeat customers, who create repetitive demands every year.
• Annually 50 projects are consumed in recent years.
• The company assures the project to be high-quality and safe to customers, especially plants and factories.
• By clarifying what can be done and what cannot, the company succeeded in acquiring trust from customers.

iJet.inc

• The company expects synergetic effects by providing both 3D scanners and 3D printers.
• Various business know-how have been accumulated due to success of "3D SHASHIN KAN" and other projects.
• The company provides services covering from 3D scanning to digital molding using 3D printers.
• Demands vary both from non-industrial to industrial.
• Customers are diverse from manufacturing, public services, educational organizations, general contractors, media, and etc.
• The company has consumed 100 projects a month from 2013.
• Business know-how using scanning/post-processing technologies have been accumulated.
• Challenges are how to shorten scanning time and wider data coverage.

iGUAZU Corporation

• The company opened "CUBE", the showroom for 3D printers in October 2012, attaining 1500 visitors in about 7 months.
• The company adopted "bodySCAN 3D" manufactured by breuckmann, the German company.
• It has started rental services with 100,000 yen per hour since April 2013.