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Tra queste aziende vi è ad esempio la Nuova Società
Piemontese Automobili, che ha utilizzato la stampa 3D
come tecnologia di produzione in serie per Bicicletto,
una e-bike più leggera, che può essere prodotta in modo
più rapido ed economicamente più conveniente, dotata
di parti personalizzate usate per creare caratteristiche
iconiche e distintive. Oppure l’azienda italiana di droni
Soleon, che si avvale della rapidità e della libertà progettuale
offerte dalla stampa 3D per creare e adattare di
continuo e con rapidità parti di droni complesse, per una
rapida distribuzione ai clienti, tra cui i servizi di soccorso
di emergenza che utilizzano questa tecnologia per complesse
missioni di ricerca e salvataggio”.
libertà dai vincoli imPosti
dalla suPPly chain
Secondo le previsioni degli analisti, gli investimenti in
una maggiore digitalizzazione e nel supporto di un’integrazione
estesa all’intera azienda aumenterà del 118%
entro il 2020 a supporto dell’Industria 4.0. Questa cifra,
per quanto importante, non dovrebbe sorprendere
i settori industriali che hanno già risposto al costante
richiamo del progresso digitale. Quello che invece può
sorprendere è il fatto che lo stesso studio ha rivelato che
un terzo dei produttori già ritiene elevato il proprio livelfreedom
from the limits imposed
by the supply chain
According to analysts’ forecasts, investments in a more
pronounced digitization and in the support of an integration
extended to the whole company will increase by 118%
by 2020 and will support Industry 4.0. This figure, important
as it may be, should not surprise those industrial
sectors which already responded to the constant call of
digital progress. What may be surprising is the fact that
the same survey revealed that one third of manufacturers
already considers their level of digitization to be high. It
is likely that digitization of the supply chain is already
widely present in this group and this is an area where 3D
printing is opening significant possibilities and not only as
concerns so-called “on demand manufacturing”.
“Speed and absence of machinery requirements which
characterize 3D printing - Esposti explained - eliminate
barriers, which can be prohibitive from a time and money
standpoint, represented by the plant, start-up and evolution
of a product. This means that companies are no longer
subject to limitations forced upon them by long production
cycles or by the need to store stocks. Supply chains thus
become leaner, more accurate, reactive and economically
convenient, a concept that was certainly adopted by an
innovative Italian company in the lime industry: QualiCal,
which combined these advantages with the opportunity of
integrating digital solutions so as to revolutionize the indication
of the limestone level in industrial kilns”.
“As a matter of fact - Esposti continued - the integration
La tecnoLogia 3D
appLicata aLLa
magLieria permette
La reaLizzazione Di
eLementi Decorativi,
accessori, ma anche
capi compLeti.
3d techNology
aPPlied to kNitwear
allowS to Produce
decorative elemeNtS,
but alSo comPlete
garmeNtS.
of online systems, design automation tools and ordering
platforms in production plants for 3D printing is creating
digital supply chains which break the schemes in every
possible way. Our creative cooperation with the pioneer
of the optical industry HOYA Vision Care is an excellent
example. The integration between 3D facial scan technology,
lens positioning software and 3D design and a digital
ordering platform simplified a “factory to face” production
and a distribution system which can respond to the demand
of made-to-measure spectacles on the clients’ part”.
capitalizinG on customization
Customization, as offered by HOYA, is essential. In a world
where brand fidelity is doomed, with 90% of leading consumer
goods brands steadily losing market share in categories
whose growth is still being curbed, the need to
differentiate and to obtain a competitive advantage has
never been so strong. And although the issue is perceived
with greater intensity in the consumer goods world, B2B
sectors are definitely not exempt.
The best part of companies find a solution in the development
of new business models, but this is an aim which is
hard to pursue. Finding a balance between the principles
of streamlining and a Market to Order (MTO) strategy is
not easy. Or at any rate, it wasn’t in the past.
APPLICAZIONI LASER - PubliTec The Additive Journal maggio giugno 2017 69