The Ascension of Additive Manufacturing in Industry

whitePaper | November 14, 2022

In this white paper, we propose to discover what Industry 5.0 means to business owners today: how they can stay competitive with this new trend and how employees can benefit from it! Since the turn of the 2010s, the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, has been taking place. This refers to the automation of manufacturing companies and the integration of new technologies into production lines.

whitePaper | June 20, 2022

The ultimate goal for composite manufacturing is the fully automated production of complex composite structures. This is being accomplished for unreinforced plastics and metals with modern Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) achieves automated thermoset composite lay-up but requires an autoclave or other post process.

whitePaper | March 9, 2022

The nine pillars of Industry 4.0, originally outlined by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 20151 and summarized below, are the technological advancements that make the Fourth Industrial Revolution possible. They bring together the physical and digital human and machine. Many of these technologies have been used in manufacturing for some time, but it’s their convergence that makes Industry 4.0 a reality.

whitePaper | October 28, 2022

Manufacturing companies can integrate all the connected resources of a process and their various business applications – enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution system (MES), product lifecycle management (PLM), and warehouse management system (WMS). They can also connect their assets, supply chain partners, and even customers through networks and the cloud.

whitePaper | May 20, 2022

More than almost any other industry, the printing industry has been experiencing an uninterrupted series of trends towards digitization for decades. As a result, this change repeatedly forced established business models to be put to the test and new goals to be defined. In all process stages, from media design to print finishing, production processes have been digitized and automated to an extent that would have seemed almost inconceivable just 25 years ago. The increasing demand for variable content, ever-shorter print runs, and expedited delivery time has been driving this development further, as well as presenting print shop logistics with new tasks. Job management and Production Planning and Control (PPC) are currently being reorganized by the Internet, mobile communications and the transfer of crucial processes to the cloud.

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

Cost-effective digital manufacturing solutions are needed to keep factories and supply chains running smoothly while producing high-quality products–whether delivered by OEM, parts or assembly supplier, contract manufacturer, or manufacturing services supplier. IBM can help you cocreate a roadmap to a custom solution with a focus on leveraging existing OT investments,improving key metrics, exploiting digital tools, and using the right talent. We help you set your direction based on a proven Industry 4.0 reference architecture and industry standards, achieve scale by consistently deploying advanced shop floor technologies on an open platform, and unleash optimum value by selecting manufacturingprocess use cases to address immediate needs.