The Biggest Additive Manufacturing Trends for 2023

whitePaper | January 2, 2023

Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Injection Molding (IM) are often perceived as competing plastic processing technologies. However, organizations must be ready to utilize and switch between different production technologies to address changing product requirements, shift production schedules based on market demands, or respond to supply chain crises. This includes making both technologies complementary, not exclusive.

whitePaper | May 3, 2023

From Henry Ford’s moving assembly line to Taiichi Ohno’s Toyota production system, now known as lean production, manufacturers globally have constantly strived to make their operations better. The concept of lean, widely known for its tools to eliminate non-value added processes, has been at the forefront of management for the last five decades.

whitePaper | July 8, 2022

Manufactured goods are placed into products in multiple verticals. For example, a battery will be placed into an electric car or a magnet into an MRI machine in a hospital. Manufacturing, therefore, covers all industrial internet of things’ verticals, from smart cities, to automated vehicles to healthcare and mining. Not to mention the factories themselves. The GIO Smart Manufacturing Working Group was established to bring these threads together and examine factories, deployments and modes of manufacturing, from batch-size-one to discrete manufacturing and continuous-process manufacturing. Our focus so far has been in the factory, which will be discussed throughout this paper

whitePaper | February 4, 2022

Digitalization is an evolving process that took roots several decades ago. The first business computers and data storage units emerged in the 1950s. In the 1960s, companies invested in databases and automated processes to make reservations and plan materials or to gain easier access to schedules/inventories, MRP was born in response to the Toyota Production Systems and Methods. In the 1970s, banking experienced its first digital advancement with the invention of ATMs, which ignited a major digitization trend

whitePaper | January 1, 2023

Pragmatic Semiconductor is a British semiconductor manufacturing company based out of Cambridge and Durham that develops ultra-low-cost flexible electronics that can help address society’s challenges. We provide a unique, flexible platform and rapid turnaround time, with significantly lower footprint and cost than conventional silicon foundries.

whitePaper | August 5, 2022

New technologies have woven their way into the manufacturing industry in recent years, particularly spurred by the advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Just as consumers have been able to integrate technologies such as smart thermostats and doorbells into their homes, American manufacturing firms have leveraged new technological tools to make their workflow more automated and interconnected—improving efficiencies and output.