Würth，德国紧固件，MRO和安全设备的分销商已与Markforged美国复合材料和金属3D打印机的制造商将3D打印机出售给其北美客户的客户。
该交易将使Würth可以在一般制造市场的客户中向其客户提供标记的3D打印机，并在其自身的快速原型制作服务中使用打印机digital Kanban systems, designed to streamline warehouse production.
Markforged的首席执行官兼创始人Greg Mark表示：“我们很高兴能够通过Würth扩大解决方案的全球影响力，并继续推动添加剂制造业可能的范围。”
“This partnership truly opens up valuable potential for us, and for the industry. Markforged makes it easy to build anything you can imagine, and that capability will allow industrial manufacturers to lower inventory costs by printing production tools and parts – quickly and reliably.”
3D打印协议的共同利益
与Würth的协议重申了Markforfor对一般制造业领域的承诺，分销协议代表了扩大公司全球影响力的机会。
Würth plans to combine Markforged 3D printing technology with its existing Kanban system用于管理生产材料的补充。Kanban is a visual system of managing workflow created by Toyota in the 1940s to reduce waste and achieve a state of just in time production. By only producing what was required when it was time to assemble the final product, Toyota ensured maximum efficiency in the manufacturing process. Additive manufacturing offers the opportunity for companies to adopt these Kanban principles in modern settings.
该系统允许其主要的工业客户secure and manage inventory according to a detailed set of information about its contents, measured using RFID tags.
“We are thrilled to bring innovative digital supply chain solutions to our customers,” said Dan Hill, CEO for Würth Industry North America (WINA).
“通过将Markforged 3D打印技术与我们现有的看板计划集成，我们可以提供更快的时间来进行市场和降低库存成本。我们能够削减采购，购买和运输成本，并将价值直接交付给客户。”
Eliminating the costs of physical warehouses
Using Markforged 3D printers to produce spare partsinstead of procuring specialist parts that often come with long lead times and at a higher price, will allow Würth’s customers to reduce the warehouse costs associated with holding large inventories.
Additive manufacturing has the potential to reduce inventory costs, by providing digital warehouses where manufacturers only print additional parts when required.
German 3D printing software developer3年introduced an extension to itsAgile MESworkflow software last year. Aiming to simplify production and create a cost-efficient alternative to physical warehouse storage of parts, theDigital AM Inventory允许用户存储3D文件的数字库存，以便在需要时生成。
Working with 3DYOURMIND, German railway company德意志·巴恩（DB）推出了数字备件仓库。使用3dyourmindAdditive Manufacturing Part Identifier(AMPI) to screen data of the railway company’s current inventory, and suggesting which parts should be ordered, they have been able to standardize the process and reduce their inventory of spare parts. This is anexpansion upon the pair’s ongoing partnership as part of the移动性会增加project which commenced in 2016. It was launched in order to reduce the costs of maintaining inventory by using3D打印以产生按需更换.
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