3D printing software developer真实has announced its first-ever acquisition: the元素技术平台.
Elements’ workflow tools are designed to provide manufacturers with real-time data-tracking capabilities, which enable them to organize production runs in a way that optimizes their productivity. Through buying the firm, and adding this offering to its own, Authentise believes it could now be possible to bring the “flexibility and responsiveness” of 3D printing to a “broader manufacturing audience.”
“元素是真实投资组合的完美补充，” Authentise首席执行官安德烈·韦格纳（Andre Wegner）说。“像身份验证一样，元素一直集中在为制造业务提供在大流行世界中需要的灵活性，并具有21世纪的数据效率。”
快速扩张的Ames产品
The真实Manufacturing Execution System“埃姆斯”本质上是一个数据驱动的工作流optimization software. Introduced to allow manufacturers to create a ‘digital thread’ of their factory operations, the platform is full of features designed to enable the real-time organizing and compliance-monitoring of part production.
However, this hasn’t stopped Authentise from continuing to seek out partnerships that help expand upon AMES’ functionality. Over the last year alone, the firm has worked with六边形AB想出一个端到端3D打印软件并获得了欧盟的支持，以资助integration of digital twin visualizations由开发信号into AMES, as well asadding Solukon’s Digital Factory Tool.
During that time, Authentise has also mergedRiven的newWarp Adapted Model (WAM) technologyinto AMES, a platform that allows users to rapidly identify and correct errors early on in the production workflow. Following their integration, it’s said that Riven’s sensors can now gather data before loading it directly into the program’s traceability report, allowing for the full contextual data capture of parts.
真实’s Docket integration
与Authentises现有产品类似，Elements的Docket Platform构建了一部分可追溯性。该公司的旗舰产品旨在充当制造商现有的企业资源计划（ERP）软件的扩展，有效地使他们可以实时远程管理其工厂地板。
该平台目前通过每月35英镑的订阅提供，配备了实时工作流程和智能计划功能，开发了旨在使用户可以优化其计划和即时访问关键数据。Dicket还允许通过平板电脑或智能手机记录检查结果，并代表制造商自动编译订单列表，从而帮助进一步数字化其工作流程。
“Elements provides customers with a unique self-serve tool for all types of manufacturing operations, to quickly create, capture and access repeatable shop floor processes,” explains Wegner. “Delivering intelligent production planning & scheduling, and real time views of production customers can track orders, like they’re paying for coffee.”
Following its acquisition, Elements’ team will now join forces with their counterparts at Authentise, bringing together a mixture of expertise, not just in workflow management, but machine data insight, AI, RFID technologies and more.
Through the deal, Authentise says it has established an open, data-driven platform, with the potential to refocus Industry 4.0 so that it has the “pragmatic flexibility” to solve supply chain challenges. Using the experience of its combined workforce, the firm also anticipates that in future, both teams will be able to achieve their mission, of “delivering end-to-end transparency, reliability and efficiency” via data.
“Supporting workers with data and modern tools gives us more context in manufacturing and allows us to drive better quality, insight and completely new business models,” adds Joe Handsaker, CEO of Elements Technology. “If nothing else, the pandemic has shown that a radical rethink of the way things are made and delivered is necessary. We’re delighted to have found a partner that understands that.”
“过去的20年一直浪费在预测维护和分析上，而投资回报率很小。是时候重新关注制造业的核心：工人了。”
工作流监视软件的上升
Using quality control systems, particularly those based around AI, it’s now increasingly becoming possible for serial 3D printing firms to monitor the compliance of parts in real-time, and make corrections to builds where needed.
就在上个月Sigma Labspartnered withMaterialiseto develop a technology that allows for thecorrection of metal 3D printing errors在生产过程中。该技术被公司称为突破，他们说，它可以使采用者能够提高其增材制造设置的一致性和可扩展性。雷电竞充值
Similarly, researchers at橡树岭国家实验室（ORNL）以前已经开发了AI-based real-time tracking softwarecalled ‘Peregrine.’ Designed as a low-cost alternative to lab characterization equipment, the platform forms a key part of the ORNL’s ‘digital thread,’ which allows it to track and analyze parts in order to stay on top of defects.
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