On-demand manufacturing platformFictiv推出了其输入prise Business Solutions portfolio aimed at solving many of the supply chain challenges facing manufacturers.
该投资组合可通过公司的基本企业平台访问，其中包含三种数字产品，旨在提高制造商的产品开发和维护，维修和运营（MRO）流程的效率，速度和质量。
“At all levels, business leaders are telling us they need fast, agile solutions to fix underperforming, sluggish supply chains,” said Bryan Painter, Global Vice President of Fictiv’s Enterprise Business Group.
“数字制造不再只是快速原型制作和按需零件。这是关于推动真正的业务转型并改变我们制造产品的方式。”
Streamlining manufacturing
Fictiv wasfounded in 2013with the aim of helping people build physical objects faster. The firm’s platform combines artificial intelligence (AI) with a range of manufacturing methods, including 3D printing, in order to streamline the production processes of its customers.
Since its launch, the firm has beenambitious with its technology和as a result has expanded its operations into China with the goal ofcreating a “new world order”with its software platform to democratize rapid, high-quality manufacturing. Off the back of this, the company raised $33 million in 2019 toautomate the manufacturing workflow和a further $35 million last year to“aggressively expand” its software platform.
The company has received backing from some notable investors, including the likes of multinational conglomerateHoneywell和Microsoft’sBill Gates, and has produced more than 18 million parts for companies active in the robotics, aerospace, automotive, and medical device sectors.
The partnership with Honeywell is a significant one for Fictiv, with Honeywell’s aerospace division seeing its engineering cycle times halved thanks to the firm’s rapid quotation software and quick turnaround of parts.
The new Enterprise Business Solutions portfolio
The new software tools offered by Fictiv can be accessed through its Enterprise platform, which is designed primarily to help manufacturers rationalize and digitally transform their tier two and three parts supply chains. The platform seeks to aid companies in achieving faster time-to-market, enhanced engineering productivity, improved parts supplier performance, and reduced supply chain management costs within their workflows.
The Enterprise platform already offers a number of useful tools for manufacturers, including preferred partner pricing, professional services for enhanced manufacturing guidance and program management, and analytics and reporting. The platform also provides enhanced intellectual property (IP) protection for companies through Secure+, which is reportedly the industry’s only SOC 2-certified digital manufacturing platform.
新的软件工具包含在Fictiv的企业业务解决方案组合中，并涵盖三个关键领域。第一个产品是NPD（新产品开发）加速度，旨在支持公司的工程团队，从早期原型到生产级测试零件。根据FICTIV的说法，该工具将帮助公司缩短其开发周期，解锁工程生产率，并将新产品推出更快的速度，同时仍保持零件质量。
The second tool is ETO (engineer to order) Rapid Production, which aims to help companies place custom-engineered products in the hands of their customers quicker. Lastly, the third offering is MRO Digital Inventory, which is designed to enable manufacturing teams to rapidly build and replace production-line tools with a cost-effective MRO strategy.
“The chief supply chain officer will digitize on a number of fronts this year to achieve better visibility and insights on three key fronts,” technology analyst and business new commentator R “Ray” Wang told Fictiv.
“ 1）降低风险，2）供应商合理化和3）在新领域获得杠杆作用。具体而言，我们看到的投资领域是通过AI捕获需求信号，以更好地预测可预测性，测试模型的分析，各种条件，并利用新的具有数字启用的供应商生态系统，以获得更深入的见解，并最终获得杠杆作用NPD，ETO和MRO供应商 - 传统上，重点是与大众生产供应商的规模经济。”
Fictiv’s new Enterprise Business Solutions portfolio is now available to customers through its Enterprise platform.
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特色图片显示a prosthetic made for Lim Innovations with urethene casting method. Image via Fictiv.
