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[INFOGRAPHIC & VIDEO] A 2D Explainer of Rapid Prototyping & Additive Manufacturing in 3D Printing

GlobalTranz

In addition to providing 3-D visualization for digitally rendered items, rapid prototyping can be used to test the efficiency of a part or product design before it is manufactured in larger quantities. Additive Manufacturing refers to a process by which digital 3D design data is used to build up a component in layers by depositing material.

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Easier pharmaceutical packaging with optimised supply chain

Logistics Business Magazine

Pharmaceutical manufacturers face numerous challenges ranging from decreasing batch sizes and increasing item diversity to massive time and cost pressure. The company has now published a new white paper to show how the digital transformation of the supply chain works in practice.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

The revolution is most obvious to us professionally in areas like the digital battlespace and fifth generation warfare concepts but also individually in our smart phones, chat rooms and social media accounts. Artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, robotics, cloud computing. The ADF though is not a business competitor.

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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: robobrain.NEUROS

Logistics Business Magazine

In times of shorter product life cycles and production quantities up to batch size 1, flexible processes place ever new demands on production and material flow for all companies. That’s why the processes are always coming to the fore – the process is actually the core of modern production.

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Lessons from “The Goal” for Optimizing Warehouse Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

They address these by maximizing up-time, by examining and optimizing batch sizes, and by moving quality control stations’ position in the workflow to before the constraints. This might involve streamlining processes, improving utilization, or enhancing the performance of the bottleneck.In