Assessing the Potential of Additive Manufacturing for Lower-Cost Tools in the Automotive Industry

whitePaper | January 1, 2020

With over 2,800 campaigns each year delivered through a team of 300+ digital, data, and technology specialists, Deck 7 is a first resource for B2B demand generation services for marketers worldwide. Clients leverage Deck 7’s multichannel content marketing services and Media 7’s network of 30+ online publications for content syndication to engage over 95 million buyers across 16 industries and 120+ countries.

whitePaper | November 8, 2022

The industry is currently undergoing its fourth revolution. The third industrial revolution introduced automation, which created data. I4.0 is the movement to translate data into information. This is paving the way for introducing a high level of autonomy by utilizing smart decision-making through advanced physical or statistical modelling to achieve self-adaptation, self-diagnosis, and self-healing. This is truly relevant for the companies, as the conventional systems are unable to adapt to the highly increasing complexity and dynamic of the production environment

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

The promise of metal additive manufacturing (AM) to completely transform how core parts are produced has largely been just that: a promise. The ability to 3D print parts has been deployed across countless industries, but limitations within conventional iterations of metal AM have relegated the technology to use primarily in prototyping or niche use cases.

whitePaper | January 19, 2023

Legacy ERP is the weakest link in your digital transformation, especially when it’s disconnected from CRM. But when everything from supply to sales is built on the same platform, you get more value, flexibility, and visibility to better serve your customers. Moving away from your legacy ERP system and on to something more modern may seem daunting, but the alternative of doing nothing or waiting for the next new technology is holding your business back in more ways than you might imagine. Hundreds of Rootstock customers have gone through the same process, looking at the limitations of their legacy ERP but assuming the migration to a modern cloud-based ERP could wait another year. But, without fail, every single customer comes out the other side wondering why they waited so long to make the switch

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

In today’s manufacturing companies, CAD, PLM and ERP solutions are traditionally implemented as stand-alone solutions, which each has its own data structure, interface and capabilities to fulfill Engineering, Operations and Manufacturing requirements respectively. However, with the rise of Industry 4.0, for manufacturers to stay competitive they must be able to implement solutions that interconnect information and processes not only across the internal enterprise and departments but external partners and suppliers as well.

whitePaper | March 14, 2022

It is unusual to see positive economic indicators paired with historic labor and supply chain challenges. But this is the trajectory for US manufacturing in 2022 emerging from the pandemic. The recovery gained momentum in 2021 on the heels of vaccine rollout and rising demand. As industrial production and capacity utilization surpassed pre-pandemic levels midyear, strong increases in new orders for all major subsectors signal growth continuing in 2022.