At Authentise, we are advocates of the idea that data is the new driving force of every industry. Through it, we are finding new ways to address our current limitations and replacing the physical with the digital. Flexibility is the keyword here. Technologies like AM enable us to do away with traditional warehouses and produce spare parts on-demand. This enables companies to save a great deal on maintenance costs, inventory upkeep, and material/production waste. CAD data can be stored throughout the product’s history and replacement parts can be printed even after the product has run its course. Digitizing the pipeline offers the chance to reinvent parts’ designs based on new generative optimizations. These are in turn based off of FEM analysis, which can improve the part’s performance while reducing its weight greatly. A few concerns are still being thought through: IP protection, part qualification and more, but its promise is already being realized.
Digital Inventory: How 3D Printing Lets Manufacturers Rely Less On Warehouses Of Stuff
“Digital inventory” is a concept increasingly bandied about in supply chain management. More than a buzzword, the underlying principle is that rather than stock a physical warehouse with mass quantities of spare parts that may or may not be in demand at any given time, including parts for now-obsolete original products, design files for components can be stored digitally and made on demand.
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FIT AG presents ‘Spare Parts on Demand’ additive manufacturing solution at Formnext
FIT AG has presented its ‘Spare Parts on Demand’ (SPOD) solution at Formnext which employs additive manufacturing to produce industrial replacement components. It has come about as companies continue to work towards implementing digital inventories which lean on additive manufacturing rather than storing parts is warehouses that have been produced by conventional means. The reason being to save on cost and time.
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The Designer Changing The Way Aircraft Are Built
The use of massive computing power to conjure radical new designs automatically – a process known as generative design – is revolutionising the way human designers work, letting us build things we previously couldn’t have imagined. Instead of waiting for inspiration to hit, computers go looking. Handed a set of design constraints – such as making it lightweight, strong and low-cost – generative design software identifies and assesses hundreds or thousands of candidates that all fit the bill, before selecting the pick of the crop.
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