Lean Manufacturing

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

Modern manufacturers succeed when they balance the types of jobs they accept with the capabilities they offer, and maximize the value of both their equipment and their personnel. Shops that fail to optimize their capabilities and remove inefficiencies from their processes may be unable to produce at their real capacity and meet expected quality standards. To improve efficiency and reach their production potential, shops must discover ways to meet four main challenges, especially as highmix, low-volume (HMLV) production gradually replaces mass-quantity output in multiple industrial environments.

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 | August 3, 2020

Edge computing is one of today's leading disruptive digital technologies. Until recently, it was overshadowed by the Cloud with its power, scalability, and as-a-service platform capabilities. However, there is an increasing realization that both have their place in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environment and that Edge offers a number of capabilities and advantages that make it a key player in the new Operational Technology (OT) Ecosystem, as well as in evolving Operational Architectures.

whitePaper | July 17, 2020

We launched a new product back in late 2019 called GrabCAD Shop. The idea was simple. We wanted to build a solution to make the 3D printing work order management process better—less manual, more integrated, and more cost effective.Now, GrabCAD Shop is the only 3D printing work order management software on the market. It’s the only solution built specifically for 3D print shops. It’s proven to streamline 3D printing workflows, easy to set up with little to no IT involvement, and secure.

whitePaper | September 9, 2022

When it comes to choosing a manufacturing system, you need more than just product information; you also need other kinds of input to make sound accounting and manufacturing software decisions... and that’s what this booklet is all about. How to Choose a Manufacturing System contains the compiled wisdom of soft-ware designers, manufacturing pros, and industry technologists

whitePaper | December 30, 2022

In recent years, Data and analytics capabilities have made a good progress resulting to numerous recent advancements. Majority of advancements have been made in various ways like development of more sophisticated algorithms, exponential growth in the volume of available data, and storage and computational power have uninterruptedly improved. The combination of these trends has led to business disruptions and fueling rapid technology advances.