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Is your company ready to become a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE)?

iBASEt

However, once in manufacturing, the 3D model is essentially lost as each team in the downstream production process uses the model in different ways and in different forms. For manufacturing purposes, the product design is often delivered in sets of 2D engineering drawings. But how digitalized does it need to be?

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3D Printing in Medical Devices: Leveraging a Digital Manufacturing Partner

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And why do manufacturers need digital tools like a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to be successful? 3D printing in manufacturing, also called additive manufacturing, is becoming a key component of agile production in life sciences. What makes 3D printing so different?

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Smart manufacturing’s impact: Is it moving fast enough?

Control Engineering

Smart manufacturing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital twins, digital threads, manufacturing execution systems (MES), advanced analytics, cobots and more all very powerful technologies.

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Smart SMEs Are Proactive Value Chain Partners

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One example is where two parts are sourced from separate suppliers and then fastened together to form an assembly. When an OEM is willing to share the larger picture of how the materials are consumed, smart suppliers often can show how to reduce assembly steps. Then the OEM can buy the two parts and assemble them on their own.