AutomotiveBusiness Strategy to Scale AM Divisions

Organizational Challenges
for Scaling AM

• Access a wide variety of printers located at different production sites
• Identify, store and share internal AM use-cases from different departments and data sources
• Standardize and scale AM processes, especially for serial production
• Optimize portfolio management of suppliers
• Control costs and support the AM Business Plan and investment roadmap
• Enforce intellectual property security of 3D files
• Plan, install and manage an AM-post-processing line

Functional Challenges
to Integrate AM into Production

Prototyping:

• Increase prototyping speed and collaboration
• Support a full design-to-AM workflow
• Enforce IP security

Tooling:

• Quickly provide high quality jigs
  & fixtures to assembly lines
• Rapid design adaptations to respond to floor conditions and employee needs

Machine spare parts:

• Reduce production lines downtime - most dramatic impact on profitability

Series and pre-series production:

• Increasing AM productivity and quality control

Mass customization: 

• Customer-centric approach for adding product choices
• Bionic design approach
• Reduction of assembly groups
• Reduced part weight