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Bringing the Future of Responsive Manufacturing Workflows

30 years in the making, additive manufacturing (AM) is no longer just a prototyping technology. Its shining glory in creating impossible design configurations, consolidating components, and transforming parts production management can be felt (in terms of time and cost savings)—in a smart factory every day. Besides, when a system repair is needed, workflow downtime is no more a detriment for factories leveraging AM technologies. This is because AM’s reverse engineering techniques can swiftly save the day for floor managers, especially when a particular part or component is not available. But, despite the many benefits of AM, a majority of manufacturing companies are still struggling to take full advantage of AM as a smart factory solution. The reason for this often lies in the lack of connectivity, automation, and security, among other things, needed to scale AM across a smart factory.

Enter 3YOURMIND.

3YOURMIND is a recognised name in the field of additive manufacturing for offering a leading-edge AM workflow management software that streamlines the processes of some of the top manufacturing companies around the world. “After decades spent as a tool for prototyping, 3D printing has now come of age as its focus is shifting to series production. 3YOURMIND software is driving this technological push to expand the potential of additive manufacturing worldwide,” says Aleksander Ciszek, founder and CEO of 3YOURMIND.

3YOURMIND’s automated software suite enables companies to make data-driven production decisions, which, according to the company’s leadership team, serves as the foundation for genuine ‘Agile Manufacturing’ principles. By digitalising workflows, 3YOURMIND’s software standardises and evaluates AM data, connects teams to production locations, and optimises machine utilisation. And through these efforts, 3YOURMIND helps manufacturing leaders ride on the bandwagon of the latest Industry 4.0 trends and scale their AM production to reach new heights.

Solid Infrastructure Backing the End-to-End AM Workflows

3YOURMIND believes that the only way to strengthen AM’s role in manufacturing is by creating industry-wide standards. And thus, the company is always steadfastly working with leading organisations like umati, DIN, MTConnect, Mobility goes Additive (MGA), VDMA, AMUG, and America Makes to make these standardisations possible.

But software and standards alone don’t solve the problems, according to Stephan Galozy, head of consulting, project management and customisation at 3YOURMIND. “You need the right people with the right knowledge to setup the processes, which will run your production efficiently,” he says. This provides 3YOURMIND the right impetus to maintain a dedicated DevOps squad that ensures all systems are running smoothly with the highest possible uptime, updates are installed without any tangible effects on live systems, and above all, Catering to Every Stage of AM Production.

At the core of 3YOURMIND’s Agile Manufacturing software suite lies three distinct solutions: Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Agile ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), and Agile MES (Manufacturing Execution System). Together, these systems work towards standardising, optimising, and automating the entire AM process chain.

While Agile PLM has modules to evaluate and store AM data in order to synchronise files, production requirements, and communication throughout the AM value chain, Agile ERP is needed to add automation into how AM business processes are managed across the distributed production networks. On the other hand, if manufacturers are looking for machine optimisation and improved AM quality assurance, Agile MES offers a smooth, digital production workflow. Agile MES is additionally focused on increasing the transparency and speed of the information flow with automatic tracking and prediction algorithms to make factory engineers more effective.

The Agile Manufacturing Software Suite even includes a Digital Part Inventory that is optimised for additive manufacturing. This inventory acts as the central location for a manufacturing 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, a company can establish a one-click AM ordering system— a must-have for part repeatability, version management, serial AM, and distributed manufacturing.

Those being said, 3YOURMIND understands that such solutions cannot showcase their true potential in isolation. In order to support enterprise production, 3YOURMIND’s offerings are therefore built to integrate to diverse infrastructures. To facilitate these complex integrations, 3YOURMIND offers a unique P.R.E.P. Consulting—Prepare, Refine, Evaluate, and Present—which serves the basis for their successful AM workflow management projects. And while the company supports such complex on-premises installations, it also provides a well-documented API to send order information, optimise 3D files, and track information and production data with a company’s existing enterprise software. “We are flexible in terms of deploying our software into these critical environments and include a change management process to synchronise with your company’s way of work,” emphasises the company’s leadership team when highlighting their unique value proposition.

Tangible Proofs of Success

3YOURMIND’s powerful software suite is already bringing value to a wide variety of industries, from logistics suppliers like PostNord to transportation companies like Deutsche Bahn. In one instance, 3YOURMIND helped a leading automotive OEM advance their suboptimal project coordination and lengthy production management processes. The goal was to internally coordinate and schedule AM projects to streamline activities across multiple production sites. 3YOURMIND implemented their shop-floor automation software, Agile ERP, and MES to help solve the issues. Soon after, the OEM started witnessing improvements in their order management, reporting, and machine utilisation, saving an estimate of $1 million in operational cost per site per year. The company also benefitted from a noteworthy time reduction of 79 percent for project coordination and 83 percent for data preparation.

In another instance, a contract manufacturer of luxury goods sought 3YOURMIND’s help to set up a paperless system from order intake to production through to implementation of automatised price engine. By digitalising their workflows with 3YOURMIND’s Agile ERP, the contract manufacturer was able to streamline the workflow and mass produce all kinds of models of Chanel luxury brand’s mascara brushes much faster.

A Promising Path Ahead

Riding on the coattails of these successes, 3YOURMIND is currently focused on tightly integrating its AI and automation capabilities so that they can bring superior value to their clients and ensure an even better agile workflow innovation funnel. Moving ahead, the company intends to introduce more ground-breaking functionalities to allow organisations to quantify the value generated from their AM workflow management efforts. The future, therefore, shines bright for the company.