Agile PLM Digital Inventories for Additive Manufacturing Require Production-Ready Parts.
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Competitive Advantage with Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Leading manufacturing companies are creating digital inventories for additive manufacturing. The Agile PLM is already bringing value in a wide variety of industries from logistics suppliers like Postnord to transportation companies like Deutsche Bahn to machining and tooling companies. A digital software interface is also an excellent way to grow awareness for specific AM technologies like the Bosch Industrial Additive Manufacturing and GEFERTEC WAAM technologies.
These companies understand that focusing on the strongest AM business cases and using those to create a reusable inventory of production-ready AM parts is the fastest way to a successful additive manufacturing program.
Is your Digital Inventory optimized for AM Parts?
The Agile Manufacturing Software Suite includes a Digital Part Inventory that is optimized for additive manufacturing. This becomes the central location for your team to manage production requirements, technology preferences, material selections and 3D files.
When an AM inventory is filled with AM-ready parts and production requirements by AM experts and design engineers, your company can establish a one-click AM ordering system. This is key for part repeatability, version management, serial AM and distributed manufacturing.
Screen AM Part Suggestions from Employees
Your employees, customers and vendors all encounter potential AM use cases that would never find their way to your AM team on their own.
The Use Case Screening module is a streamlined web and mobile interface to collect potential AM parts and pre-categorize them based on key data points input by your employees. Your AM experts can then enrich the data, request additional information and use market-validated algorithms to find the strongest business cases in your company and move them to production.
Want to Screen AM Use Cases?
Find AM Parts in Existing Part Inventories
The part data your company has collected over years or decades in ERP and PLM systems contains strong AM business cases. The question is how to find them.
After setting up the Inventory Analysis with best-practice algorithms tailored to the available data and your business priorities, the AM Part Identifier will shine a spotlight on the strongest use cases. Your AM Team will have software tools to further enrich the data with information from other departments and refine the algorithms and reports to get more value out of digital part data.
Let’s Analyze Existing ERP Data
How can I Connect AM to Existing Production Processes?
Our platform API (Application Programming Interface) adds a powerful 3D pricing infrastructure behind white-label applications for companies like postnord.
Our software gives customers the benefit of years of AM industry know-how and software systems to bring AM ordering, tracking and production data directly into existing enterprise software systems.
Ready to Connect to AM Data?
Smooth Production with 3D File Printability Analysis
Validating and optimizing 3D files before moving into production adds stability and reliability to your AM workflow. That is why we developed our own algorithms to analyze printability, verify 3D files and retrieve part metadata.
Weak points are shown in the 3D model viewer so your team knows exactly how they need to modify the file. Each model is further optimized by assuring the manifoldness of the input, fixing numerical and topological inconsistencies, and removing digital artifacts to create a watertight mesh while maintaining the original part geometry.
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Use Part Orientation Optimization for Accurate AM Pricing
The orientation of part can have a big impact on pricing. In the 3YOURMIND software you can choose to optimize orientation pricing based on the minimum height, minimum support volume or minimum contact area of support structures and model surface.
Your customer gets accurate pricing no matter how the customer orients each uploaded file.
