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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

By Clare Scott A supply chain crisis has been affecting the world in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Industry 4.0 and the cloud are enabling a vast digital manufacturing network in which a print job can be initiated in one part of the world and finished in another, exactly where the part is needed.

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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.

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Polymer 3D Printing Market Moves Beyond Prototyping to Hit US$21.1 Billion in 2033

i4.0 today

When it comes to history and awareness, polymer additive manufacturing leads the 3D printing industry. The first type of 3D printing to be invented in the 1980s was stereolithography, while thermoplastic filament extrusion holds the most public recognition amongst additive technologies. billion in 2033.

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Innovate UK-backed Start-up Launches Ground-breaking Digital Marketplace for Manufacturers to Sell 3D-printable Car Parts

i4.0 today

The first-of-its-kind solution enables Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) backed blockchain-protected and certified design assets to be 3D printed on-demand locally. “I am delighted that we can launch our business model in the UK and then into international markets, bringing a transformative economic and environmental impact.”

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TactoTek® Adds TracXon Solutions to Enhance the Supply of IMSE® Technology and Expand the Supply Chain to Enable Sustainable 3D Smart Surfaces

i4.0 today

As a TactoTek licensee, TracXon Solutions will design and build IMSE functional films, integrating TactoTek’s design rules to enable the supply of functional films for the development of next-generation automotive platforms with smart surfaces. Find out more about TracXon on [link]. Today Magazine.

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A legacy of innovative manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

“But one of the big challenges we’ve had in Australia is that compared to other industrialised nations, we don’t have the industry structure where you have a handful of large global multinationals at the top of the supply chain that drive procurement opportunities and best practice through the supply chain.

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Engineering Industries Ireland to Sponsor the 2024 Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition

i4.0 today

Engineering Industries Ireland (EII), the Ibec group representing the engineering manufacturing and services sector in Ireland, has been announced as the Headline Sponsor of the annual Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, scheduled to be held at RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin, on the 28th and 29th of May 2024.