Additive Manufacturing: Industry Trends and Outlook

March 21, 2019

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, technologies create three-dimensional parts from computer-aided design models by successively adding material layer by layer until a physical part is created. While AM technologies have been around since the 1980s, the industry went through its most striking hype cycle during the early 2010s, when promoters claimed that the technology would find broad usage in consumer applications and reorder businesses from The Home Depot to UPS.

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Scaling AI in Manufacturing Operations: A Practitioners Perspective

Infographic | December 13, 2019

AI enables organization to optimize product availability by decreasing out of stocks and spoilage. AI can also help with getting a better understanding of sales patterns. L’Oreal uses AI algorithms to predict demand based on a wide variety of data gathered from social media, weather, and financial markets. AI enables organizations to expediate product development and R&D by reducing the test times and driving more concrete insights from customer data and demands.

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Digital Twin Bringing the Real and Digital Worlds Together

Infographic | May 4, 2022

Digital twinning is the process of developing an analytics model of real-world systems, processes, and physical assets that serves as the foundation for real-time data processing and augments human decision-making. The global digital twin market size is projected to reach USD 48.2 billion by 2026.

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Digital Manufacturing Marketing Plan Five Checklists

Infographic | January 3, 2022

Small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) must recognize that utilizing digital platforms is the most significant way of marketing for manufacturing companies Amid the rising instability of the industrial environment, manufacturers must betterunderstand their target groups to build product marketing strategies adapted to their demands.

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Lean Manufacturing: Making Manufacturers More Productive

Infographic | March 29, 2022

The term lean manufacturing refers to applying lean practices, principles, and tools to the development and manufacture of physical products, Lean is a way of thinking, not a list of things to do.

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Interesting Facts about Industry 4.0 and Its Key Components

Infographic | February 17, 2022

3 Key Components of Industry 4.0 1. Big Data - 81% The world’s data is unstructured , 90% The world’s data was created in the last two years , 2.5 Quintillion bytes of data are created daily

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Cloud Computing in Manufacturing

Infographic | May 4, 2022

Cloud computing enables agile manufacturing. To keep up with the continuously changing environment, manufacturers may now act on real-time data and detect and fix issues more quickly.

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