Philips lets you 3D-print its spare parts at home — Fixables

Philips launched Fixables in May 2025, a repair platform built with Czech 3D-printer maker Prusa Research and agencies LePub Amsterdam and Milan. The idea: publish the files of official spare parts so anyone with a 3D printer can make their own. The first part released was a 3mm comb for one of Philips' shavers, distributed free through Prusa's Printables.com.

The fix addresses a real consumer breakage point on shavers and trimmers: small plastic attachments get lost or snap, and because the replacements were hard to get, the whole device went to the bin. Philips instead made the file free, so the cost of repair collapses to the plastic filament in the user's own printer.

The launch was deliberately small — primarily in the Czech Republic, a market with a strong maker community — with a request board where users could ask for parts that don't exist yet. Reviewers read it as a sign of a shift toward repairable hardware, with Logitech's iFixit collaboration the obvious precedent.

At Cannes Lions 2025 the work took two Silver Lions in Design: Sustainability-Focused Design and Innovation in Design. No sales or repair numbers have been published, so the case is carried by the mechanism rather than by results.