How to Use Additive Manufacturing to Improve Your Manufacturing Process

November 6, 2017

If you head up your company’s manufacturing operations, you are undoubtedly charged with producing better products faster while cutting costs, increasing production uptime, not to mention finding a way to efficiently meet customer demands for customized products, all while supporting your organization’s innovation initiatives. These goals sound daunting at best and perhaps even mutually exclusive in some cases.

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Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries

Flowers Foods, Inc., with 2016 sales of $3.9 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company’s 47 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. More than 85 percent of the U.S. population has access to the company’s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors.

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The auto move manufacturer had incurred significant financial losses and struggled in denying methods in which they could optimize their excising operons and align with corporate Industry 4.0 incaves. They experienced bo@leneck operons that caused unplanned down me and had increasing scrap rates due to a lack of process visibility

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Artificial Intelligence In Manufacturing

whitePaper | November 2, 2022

This white paper entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing" reports the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in European manufacturing, and its potential to enhance competitiveness and technological leadership in the future. The paper is based on research conducted by the Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing NETwork (AIM-NET), which represents the viewpoint of the manufacturing community on the achievements and challenges of AI solutions. The document covers topics such as AI in manufacturing processes, robots, machines, and operations support in manufacturing, and AI in manufacturing systems. It also includes discussions on cross-cutting aspects such as regulation, education, systems engineering, and data augmentation. The paper also presents the maturity achieved TRL levels of existing AI-based applications in manufacturing, typical KPIs used to assess performance, and barriers and limitations to wide adoption. It also provides a roadmap for future work on AI, with efforts needed in short-term and long-term time horizons. Overall, the paper provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future vision of AI in manufacturing for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers.

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whitePaper | September 21, 2022

In its early days, 3D Printing reinvented the prototyping process by allowing a faster and more cost-efficient way to create new products. The effortless experimentation with CAD designs and the production of proof-of-concepts with almost no design limitations or material waste, revolutionized the prototyping world.

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Tailoring digital thread in manufacturing

whitePaper | March 23, 2023

The fourth industrial revolution is transforming the manufacturing industry as we speak. Industry 4.0 is digitally driven, and like all other revolutions, the transformation did not happen overnight. Since the first personal computer on a factory floor in 1970s, computer-aided design has developed and matured exponentially. Strategically eective evolutionary steps has resulted in productivity and eciency gains in manufacturing. We live in the Industry 4.0 era, characterized by the digitization of manufacturing processes. Inevitably, today, information plays a significant role for an enterprise transformation. Data on how the product’s design and manufacturing information is authored, exchanged, and processed is critical to competitiveness. Information ‘silos’ for various life cycle processes are gradually connected to form a digital thread of information, envisioned to integrate and drive modern product design, manufacturing, and product support service processes.

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Spotlight

Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries

Flowers Foods, Inc., with 2016 sales of $3.9 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company’s 47 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. More than 85 percent of the U.S. population has access to the company’s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors.

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