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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

Rather than maintaining large stockpiles to avoid the chance of being caught without a critical part, companies can keep a digital inventory. Industry 4.0 Additively manufactured metals also have the potential to replace many machined equivalents, meaning that shortages of common materials are less of an issue.

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HP Supply chain and additive manufacturing opportunities in Spain

SMMT

We are facing a global supply crisis, strongly affecting the automotive sector, hindering its production chains and, therefore, its sales. Thus, we have learned that we must evolve towards more diversified supply chains, where components manufacturing sites are closer to assembly lines and consumer markets. in Southern Europe.

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A legacy of innovative manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

In 2018, carbon fibre automotive wheels pioneer Carbon Revolution and Deakin University formed a $15 million research and development (R&D) partnership facilitated and part-funded by the IMCRC. Industry 4.0 3D printed bone implant by Stryker, who IMCRC helped to launch its first R&D facility in Queensland.

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

i4.0 today

3D printing is a digital manufacturing technology, meaning that a large part of the production process is managed online. However, finishing the printed components still has some manual process steps. Precisely the finishing of the printed parts is something that primarily requires manual handling.

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IDTechEx Asks If Electronics Manufacturing Can Join the Digital Age

i4.0 today

However, while printed circuit boards (PCBs) enable digital technologies, the manufacturing processes used to produce them are still largely analog. ‘Digital manufacturing’ refers to any method that is directly controlled by a computer – simply using software in the design process doesn’t count.