Bringing "Trust" to 3D-Printed Manufacturing: GAZIRU Individual Identification Opens a New Future for IP Protection and Quality Assurance

In manufacturing today, the shift toward "high-mix, low-volume production" using 3D printers is accelerating.

This revolution—where objects can be created instantly from data—presents us with two unresolved challenges.

The first is "quality assurance."

Who designed the part in front of you? What strength simulations did it undergo? Was it produced using the proper process? For example, when a critical safety component of an automobile is repaired using 3D printing, how can its safety be verified during vehicle inspection?

The second is "intellectual property protection."

When excellent design data is copied and manufactured or sold without the designer's knowledge, the rightful compensation (license fees) never reaches them.

This extinguishes the passion of designers.

A Technology That Bridges the Missing Link Between "Objects" and "Data"

Our answer to these challenges is simple:

"Make the printed object itself serve as its certificate."

Objects produced by 3D printers inevitably develop microscopic "layer marks" and surface patterns during the manufacturing process. Like human fingerprints, no two are ever identical.

Even if someone perfectly 3D-scans a shape to create a counterfeit, replicating this microscopic "object fingerprint" is extremely difficult.

Using GAZIRU's technology, individual objects can be identified simply by capturing an image with a camera—without attaching QR codes or tags. Information such as "this part was produced from properly licensed data," "this part was manufactured with settings meeting appropriate strength standards," and "simulation data" can be linked to and managed through individual identification (artifact metrics).

The Ecosystem GAZIRU Envisions

Through GAZIRU Individual Identification, we aim to create the following cycle:

Compensation for Designers:

A system ensuring license fees are reliably paid based on the number of manufactured items.

Peace of Mind for Users:

An environment where parts can be instantly verified as "certified" during vehicle inspections and maintenance.

Guaranteed Authenticity:

A market that excludes shape-copied counterfeits and values legitimate manufacturing.

By firmly connecting the digital world and the physical world through "artifact metrics," 3D printing will evolve from a mere "prototyping tool" into a "trusted manufacturing method" that supports social infrastructure.

Toward a future where the identity of "objects" is clear, and all stakeholders can manufacture and use them with confidence —

GAZIRU will continue to provide the foundational technology for this vision.