Digital Threads in Additive Manufacturing - a Consultancy Approach

Digital threads in Additive Manufacturing facilitate a seamless flow of data and information, enhancing efficiency and generating value across all stakeholders and the ecosystem. Rapidly advancing technologies accelerate technical realization and foster collaboration among all contributors to the value chain - from market needs to designers, manufacturers, and end-users.

However, the successful implementation of suitable technologies requires significant investment, expertise, policy changes, and organizational restructuring. Consulting firms play a crucial role in supporting this transformation process by providing strategic guidance, technical expertise, and change management to maneuver through complex tasks while securing a competitive edge across various applications. This means in fact: approaching the challenge through understanding user experience and expectation to pinpoint a business process view, and subsequently derive requirements to design the underlying technology. As consultants, we build on our long-time experience around Product Lifecycle Management and utilize our expertise from other Digital Thread projects. For realization, we consider different providers and their solutions to adapt to the various and individual needs.

Bringing digital threads to life will be crucial in ensuring that Additive Manufacturing can deliver on its promise of quality, reliability, speed, reduction of complexity, and traceability.

Presentation language: EN