The Top 10 Manufacturing Innovators of 2019

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Manufacturing Trends Manufacturing: Latest Trends and how it is Revitalizing the Sector

Industry Updates Smart Manufacturing And The Sectors That Are Helping It To Evolve

Brandon Witte President & CEO

SYSTEMS

Transforming Machine Data into Actionable Insights

EDITOR’S LETTER The Next Era of Global Growth and Technology Disruption

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n both advanced and developing economies, manufacturing is still a critical force. But the industry has changed, bringing business leaders new opportunities and challenges. Today, manufacturers are highly focused on achieving new growth. To attain this growth, they need to invest significantly in new technologies. Hence, companies and manufacturing firms are adopting modern technologies such as data and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, to name a few.

Thanks to these technologies, the manufacturing industry is now producing products in the most intuitive and the fastest way possible. Combining this with customers’ feedbacks and suggestions, manufacturers can create products that are customized and affordable which results in no wastage of raw materials and save time and money. In order to stay in the game, companies and manufacturing firms need to adjust to the digital world to accommodate the needs of their customers.

Witnessing such tremendous transition, the team of Mirror Review brings the latest magazine issue, “The Top 10 Manufacturing Innovators of 2019” for our readers. In this issue, we shed light on leading companies that are making the manufacturing process streamlined and optimized while reducing raw material wastage. In our lead feature, Sightline Systems is leveraging stateof-the-art technologies like big data visualization, machine learning, and predictive analytics to help manufacturers improve operations, remain competitive, and achieve ROI gains while also fulfilling quality and compliance requirements.

Unrolling the next pages, we have well-researched articles for our readers in the ‘Manufacturing Trends’ and ‘Industry Updates’ sections respectively.

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A Specialist In Digital Manufacturing Technology

Demystifying Technology For Manufacturers

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Moddler

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The Ultimate Platform For Turning Your Ideas Into 3D Wonders

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Smart Manufacturing And The Sectors That Are Helping It To Evolve

Manufacturing: Latest Trends And How It Is Revitalizing The Sector

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Brandon Witte President & CEO

Transforming Machine Data into Actionable Insights

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ver its 30 years in business, Sightline has only once seen a period of time wherein there was so much potential revenue trapped by antiquated technology and operations that weren’t utilized to their fullest capacity – at its founding in the late 80s when the computer revolution was just taking place. At the time companies were finally beginning to switch from their old analog systems to take advantage of mainframe systems.

Today, Sightline sees the same trends, but in a different space – data. The company has helped clients across industries from manufacturing to finance each recognize millions of dollars of savings through improved operations by taking a sensor agnostic and data-driven approach. Unlike some Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that insist on a rip-and-replace of all control systems and hardware, Sightline’s flagship platform works with, rather than against, your existing control infrastructure to augment your operations.

Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies like big data visualization, machine learning, and predictive analytics, Sightline is helping manufacturers improve operations, remain competitive, and achieve ROI gains while also fulfilling quality and compliance requirements.

Cover Story Tackling the Challenges of IIoT According to Brandon Witte, the CEO and President of Sightline Systems, the company is on a mission to tackle a some of the most pressing issues faced by manufacturers today. These issues include the digital engineering skills gap, shortages of employees, and increasing bottom-line pressure. A study from the McKinsey Global Institute has found that the skills gap for data science professionals is enormous; only 22 percent of companies hire and onboard data analysts with adequate skills. Sightline is on a mission to bridge this disconnect; the company incorporates easy-to-use, real-time big data visualization capabilities into its manufacturing analytics platform that is designed for nontechnical users to understand historical trends and data patterns.

Sightline minimizes the need for manufacturers to hire specialized data scientists to determine which processes are causing performance problems, production losses or safety issues. Sightline additionally analytics that allow organizations to take advantage of all that Industry 4.0 has to offer while providing distinct competitive advantage over manufacturers that have not taken steps to benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things.

Sightline EDM: All-In-One Manufacturing Data Analytics Solution The Fairfax, VA-based company is emerging as an innovator in the manufacturing industry. The company has built its platform for interoperability and is hardware agnostic. Sightline’s Enterprise Data Manager™ (EDM) platform fulfills the requirements of manufacturers searching for an all-in-one data analytics solution that will integrate and communicate with solutions in place without disrupting existing systems. EDM for Manufacturing automatically captures, stores, analyzes and correlates thousands of data tags in real-time from temperature sensors, remote sensors, pressure gauges, SCADA, historians, PLCs and more in millisecond increments.

The data collected is displayed on a centralized, userfriendly web-based dashboard, providing an accurate picture of the overall manufacturing operations.

Furthermore, EDM provides manufacturers with advanced reports, customizable notifications, and real time visualization of IIoT machine data, including alerts, tolerances, variances, electrical usage, speeds, feeds and vibrations.

Sightline EDM uses advanced machine learning techniques to provide predictive maintenance.

Proactively identifying problems and uncovering hidden patterns leads to reduced downtime, faster response time, increased Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and decreased Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Anomaly detection, root cause analysis and easy compliance reporting.

Enhancing Productivity for Manufacturers Today, manufacturers large and small are using Sightline EDM across individual and multiple production facilities, plants and factories around the globe. The platform has aced the expectations of global manufacturers by providing high-speed data collection and analysis of manufacturing processes. After implementing the Sightline software, customers have seen benefits both short-term and over time. They have been able to simplify operations, manage much more efficiently, and save money by using Sightline EDM instead of the multiple applications they were using previously. They have documented millions of dollars in savings from the real-time analysis of manufacturing operations. This includes: An auto manufacturer conducted an analysis of their production line to understand the reason for high defects on car doors during the painting process. The company saved $2 million USD/year by reducing paint defects using EDM’s root cause analysis (Clairvor).

A chemical company saved $1.2 million/year in waste elimination and increased throughput by using EDM’s advanced forecasting (ForSight).

A steel processing plant identified pressure issues resulting in ~13% shorter Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), improving the speed of production and lengthening equipment lifespans.

A global appliance manufacturer chose EDM to

provide real time visibility into their operations, resulting in 10 hours/month (massive single line) of additional uptime.

A Multifaceted Leader Aiming to Be an Industry Pioneer With a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry, Sightline CEO Brandon Witte is responsible for the definition of corporate strategy, maintenance of corporate culture, allocation of capital, and outlining marketing strategy along with the framing of new product lines. Brandon holds a BA in Management Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and is skilled in requirements analysis, enterprise software, enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and professional services.

Under Brandon’s leadership, Sightline helps customers from diverse sectors such as retail, energy, government, security, finance, telecom, travel, and manufacturing turn mountains of data into meaningful and actionable insights, preventing costly downtime by delivering the best of breed IT monitoring and analytics solutions. For more than 12 years, Sightline has achieved a 95% renewal rate from customers including Fortune 500 and

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We are providing better monitoring, faster analytics, and stronger operations via the powerful Sightline EDM platform.

Global 2000 companies. On its journey toward Industry 4.0, the company has made significant strides forward, creating a real-time manufacturing data analytics solution for its manufacturing clients.

To continue its successful track record as an industry leader in technology, Brandon and his team have nurtured a culture of innovation, working with customers to continuously improve Sightline’s awardwinning performance analytics platform by implementing innovative new technologies that provide business value.

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Accenture Julie Sweet CEO

Accenture unlocks opportunity in India by harnessing the possibilities that spring from disruption in every industry, in every country, every day. www.accenture.com

Atkore International Group William E. Waltz CEO

Atkore International Group Inc are manufacturers of Electrical Raceway products primarily for the non-residential construction and renovation markets and Mechanical Products & Solutions, or “MP&S,” for the construction and industrial markets. www.atkore.com

Axsys inc Steve Braykovich President & CEO

By leveraging its over four decades of “digital manufacturing” experience, Axsys is allowing manufacturers to grow or expand their capabilities into new markets where they may have had no previous experience. www.axsysinc.com

ComplianceQuest Prashanth Rajendran Co-Founder & CEO

ComplianceQuest is established in 2015, with the mission to address market needs perfectly. The core values were further categorized. Firstly, to continually focus on increasing productivity and reducing costs for the customers. www.compliancequest.com

Honeywell Darius Adamczyk Chairman & CEO

Honeywell International Inc. is a publicly traded conglomerate headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina united states that produces commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems. www.honeywell.com

Linear Manufacturing Jay Palace Founder & CEO

Linear Manufacturing is an ISO 9001:2015 certified full service contract manufacturer for electronics and serves clients in many market segments for original equipment manufacturers (OEM's). www.linearmfg.com

Moddler Jared Murnan COO

Contributing by adding a new spin on the fourth industrial revolution, Moddler is an innovative manufacturing company that is reshaping the identity of a 3D printing service. www.moddler.com

OpenPro Jim Clark Co-Founder & CEO

Headquartered in Fountain Valley, CA, OpenPro ERP Software is a leading provider of licensed open source ERP software. openpro.com

Rachio Christopher Klein Cofounder & CEO

Rachio is a Denver-based software and hardware company focused on improving the water efficiency of homes. Rachio makes the best-selling smart sprinkler controller. www.rachio.com

Sightline Systems Brandon Witte CEO & President

sightline’s Enterprise Data Management™ (EDM) platform fulfills the requirements of manufacturers searching for an all-in-one data analytics solution that will integrate and communicate with solutions in place without disrupting existing systems. www.sightline.com

Axsys: A Specialist In Digital Manufacturing Technology

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he manufacturing industry, just like many other industries in today’s quickly-shifting marketplace, has been confronting uncertainties in the face of digitization and new customer expectations. The industry has reported that the lack of skilled labor is a major problem. There are numerous cases where both low skilllevel and high skill-level jobs are available. These jobs include line workers, machine operators, CNC/robot programmers, CAD part, tool & fixture designers, machine maintenance, and many more. But, there are no skilled candidates available to fill these jobs. Moreover, the manufacturing industry would certainly be devastated without these workers and major losses would befall on overall production and revenue.

To tackle this challenge, Axsys is working with local governments to understand what form of assistance is

latest technology. At the same time, it is ensuring that their training labs have the most up-to-date computers, software, and machine technologies. Axsys offers free CAD/CAM programming classes for displaced workers looking to move into the digital manufacturing world.

Leveraging 40 Years of Experience By leveraging its over four decades of “digital manufacturing” experience, Axsys is allowing manufacturers to grow or expand their capabilities into new markets where they may have had no previous experience. The company’s goal is to provide high-quality, complete solutions to its customers while offering the best possible pre- and post-sale training and support. For its customers, it is an independent professional services company focused on providing the best possible

We are creating software and services that solve the world’s manufacturing challenges. available for companies to train their employees or potential employees. Besides this, it is informing manufacturers of these programs and guiding them throughout the process of applying for and collecting the funds available. The company is also working closely with middle schools, secondary schools, ISDNs, community colleges, and universities to keep them updated with the

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hardware/software technology, training, and services available for the design, manufacture, and inspection of products, parts, and tooling.

The manufacturing service providing company offers customized training, consulting, and support for customerspecific CAD/CAM and CNC based manufacturing

applications. It focuses on delivering CAD, CAM, CNC, and inspection solutions to manufacturers in virtually all industries. To deliver such solutions, Axsys blends quality products along with tooling and experienced industry support specialists. These solutions are integrated with operating systems, applications, and enterprise software as well as hardware ranging from workstations to machine tools and inspection devices.

The competent leader wants to further improve the company’s capabilities, profitability, and ability to compete in the marketplace. In parallel, he wants to enhance workers’ personal and professional development so that they realize their hopes and dreams while caring for their families. “In the end, all that matters is that everyone grows and develops to become the better version of themselves,” says Axsys CEO Steve.

Presently, it is serving a multitude of industries such as automotive, aerospace, dental, medical, electronics, consumer products, jewelry, and woodworking industries.

Upcoming Plans for Expansion in Different Areas

A Manufacturing Innovator in the Industry Currently, Axsys is celebrating its 25 years of manufacturing excellence with a special online sales promotion. The company specializes in digital manufacturing technology and offers a full-line of CAD/CAM software, scanners, milling machines, furnaces, hard and soft materials, and FDA-cleared implant components. Because of its innovative, flexible solutions and top-notch network of support, Axsys’ software is the most widely used in the industry and education.

For the future, Axsys is planning to expand into automation, which includes robot integration, cell development and in-process inspection. The company is also working on the expansion into the world of digital dentistry which has significant growth opportunities.

To ensure it remains a manufacturing innovator, Axsys stays close to its existing customers to understand their businesses, technologies, workforce, pressures to advance and improve their quality, lead-times, and costs. The company focuses on helping its vendors create and debug new products and product features. In addition, it also participates in various seminars, trade shows, workshops, etc. As a result, Axsys has been the leading integrator of CAD/CAM solutions to the engineering and manufacturing communities for over the past two decades.

A Veteran Leader With Diverse and Extensive Experience The CEO and President of Axsys, Steve Braykovich, came into the world of “digital manufacturing” in 1978 as an NC/CNC repair technician. Since then, he has held numerous positions in front-line, managerial, and executive positions in many aspects of service, sales, development, and marketing. Using his prior experience and skills, the veteran leader with his expert team is working hard to solve customers’ complex business issues.

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ComplianceQuest: Demystifying Technology For Manufacturers

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ith the emerging Industry 4.0, a digital revolution is sweeping across the land, artificial intelligence is on the front pages every day, the traditional view of customers is also dramatically changing making it more challenging for the industry. The aforementioned are some challenges that are faced by the manufacturers as they grapple, to define what their operations need to become in order to compete on a playing field they have never seen before.

Manufacturers often struggle to find their way through the forest of technological change.

Finally, ensuring a friendly work environment with consistency in high energy, passion and socially engaged team that delivers service beyond expectations for its customers, partners, and the company.

Innovator and not a follower

As Industry 4.0 is heralded as the future, and to cope up with the upcoming challenges ComplianceQuest and its strategic channel partner, Gerent, have been demystifying technology for manufacturers for more than a decade. It is providing clarity and assurance that, with the proper application of technology, manufacturers can see enormous benefits to their business models and reap rewards in the form of increased sales, and higher customer satisfaction.

ComplianceQuest believes in innovating constantly, keeping up with the change. It utilizes the customer feedback and industry scenario, to regularly innovate the platform. It uses paint-points that customers hope to address and un-anticipate issues that come up at a customer site to help us stay ahead of the curve in terms of innovation. Prashanth Rajendran (CEO) says, “Our customers are voicing their opinion to have us look into PLM, EHS and other adjacent products, but the innovation with quality and compliance is limitless. We are very excited about that. Besides, our product is supported by highly robust and relevant technologies, preventing near-future obsolescence.”

Mission that addresses market needs perfectly

Scalable and flexible solutions to meet the needs of organizations

ComplianceQuest was established in 2015, with the mission to address market needs perfectly. The core values were further categorized. Firstly, to continually focus on increasing productivity and reducing costs for the customers. Secondly, to endeavor in becoming the market leader in “cloud” Enterprise Quality Management Software by delivering 100% modern cloud superior solutions natively built and run on Salesforce.

In order to address the challenges, ComplianceQuest introduced an Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS) built on a modern cloud architecture that addresses current and emerging business challenges. The company utilized the Salesforce Cloud to leverage everything that Salesforce Business platform provides today and in the future, such as third-party appExhange solutions easily integrated as they are also built on Salesforce. Salesforce itself is also

We work with your company’s key contacts to create a unique, highly tailored implementation plan to guarantee success.

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becoming a more standard platform within many companies by extending the value of their investment and reduce overall IT footprint. Using this modern cloud tech, customers will always have the most updated version of the software platform.

In addition, since the business application platform is continued to be innovated and managed by Salesforce, this allows ComplianceQuest to drive more innovation into its own solutions. Since the ease of development, it can quickly create working prototypes, new features or customer-specific capabilities to address new market or customer requirements and turn them into final production solutions.

Adroit leader empowering organization growth Prashanth Rajendran is the Co-founder and CEO of ComplianceQuest, and before incepting the company in 2015, he worked as the president and CEO of Lattice Social, a cutting-edge software company for incorporating social media into business-to-business collaboration, more than twenty years as co-founder and COO of Pilgrim Software, a Quality Management System software company. Apart from being an excellent entrepreneur, he is also active philanthropically in his community, dealing with the needs of orphaned and disadvantaged children and building shelters, toilets and schools in poorly developed countries.

will help to understand the problems of the customer from a better perspective and allow manufacturers to anticipate to respond in a proactive way. This solution will help to meet the client’s needs and expectations every time.

ComplianceQuest on its journey to becoming a market disruption With the technological advancements, the responsibility to leverage them appropriately, and in a consistent fashion to continue to enhance the value of services delivered to the customers. ComplianceQuest aims to incorporate and enhance the best practices from various industries to improve its client services. It plans to leverage collected data to predict trends, make recommendations for next best actions and leverage AI to advise the subject matter experts to focus on the right data at the right time. Prashanth believes that with continued passion and dedication on this journey, the company will become a market and competitive disruption.

Prashanth belonged to manufacturing and industrial engineering background by education and was already in the realm of process automation to improve the lives of people in the manufacturing space. His hands-on experience in manufacturing companies, where he was responsible for business process and quality processes. It helped him to gain insights into what a company goes through to achieve compliance and certification and most importantly a culture of sustained quality. He adds, “Over the last 30 years, I learned what it takes to create a culture of continuous improvement. I realize that with all the changes in the market, regulations in place, globalization, etc., and customers are looking to address key challenges in quality and compliance in the manufacturing and life sciences space.”

Foreseeing Customer expectations in the digital world Prashanth shared his view on predicting the forthcoming digital revolutions by saying, “Gerent and ComplianceQuest strongly believe that the first step manufacturers need to take is recognizing that today’s customers are different. They are more demanding and expectant of fast results. By recognizing this new customer profile, manufacturers can then begin to apply the proper technology solutions, designed and implemented by Gerent using Salesforce-based products that will give them the means to meet customer demands.”

Prashanth Rajendran Co-founder & CEO

According to Prashanth, these solutions are designed to give manufacturers a complete 360° view of each customer. This

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Modern Prospects

Smart Manufacturing And The Sectors That Are Helping It To Evolve

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mart Manufacturing is a process that is fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systems that respond in real-time to meet changing demands and conditions in the factory, in the supply network, and in customer needs.

Though Smart manufacturing is a relatively new concept and not easy to directly infuse into the existing production procedures. It is a mix of different modern technologies combined together to improve the manufacturing process, but it needs to be implemented correctly first. Smart Manufacturing helps to improve the whole production process and eventually increase the profits of the company. This powerful process allows organizations to recognize new possibilities for automating operations and utilize data analytics to deliver better manufacturing outcomes.

Modern Technologies Making Manufacturing ‘Smarter’ The concept of adopting and implementing a smart manufacturing solution can be complicated sometimes. The fast-paced technological changes and trends have moved toward a more receptive, adjustable production system almost essential for manufacturers who wish to either remain competitive or get ahead of the competition. Big gains only come if the think tank broadens its capabilities and consider the possibilities, with small with manageable components, and scaling quickly to grow the operations, the promise, and benefits of the smart manufacturing can be realized. The article will elaborately describe the concept of smart manufacturing and how it is changing the industries with high level of efficiency by using modern technologies. Ÿ

Artificial Intelligence: The manufacturing sector is quite forward when it comes to adopting new technology that can enhance the process of manufacturing. AI is one such technology which is helping the industry to keep a check on inventory and avoid the unnecessary cost in the process of turning raw material into finished goods.

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Blockchain: The technology of blockchain is primarily used for financial transactions. Companies are looking to implement it in manufacturing to record each and every action. This will help the companies to see where they are lacking or going wrong by tapping into the log. Though the concept of blockchain in manufacturing is still in conceptual and testing stages, in the future we might see the technology evolve and help the manufacturing industry in its growth. Ÿ

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Industrial Robotics: Smart robotics

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changing the manufacturing industry rapidly. These smart robots can do different tasks at a brisk pace. This means better production rates and lesser turnaround time which saves time, money and resources.

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Cloud Computing: Manufacturing is data-driven, Cloud computing enabling manufacturers to innovate, reduce costs of production, and increase their capacity.

All these will eventually help the company to get an edge over the competition.

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3D Printing: Any technology that has made manufacturing easier is 3D printing. It is easy to use and less time consuming than the traditional manufacturing process. It includes advanced level designing that makes finished products nearly perfect.

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Internet of Things: Smart manufacturing also uses the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT gives real-time insight into the production process and implementation involves the integration of sensors in manufacturing to collect data related to operation and performance. This information is used to improve the production process and also enhance the skills of the workforce that is involved in it.

Human Resources and its contribution to Smart Manufacturing Human Resources are important factors in the success of any organization. Human capital management in Smart Manufacturing provides workers with defined and regularly communicated performance expectations. The sole aim of such evaluation is encouraging innovation and assisting constant progress. In Smart Manufacturing, human capital management is looked as a method for organization staffing that rates workers as assets. Human capital acts as a stimulus to increase productivity in manufacturing. Smart Manufacturing cannot work if human capital is taken out of it with the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities. The success or failure of it relies fully on how human capital helps in its success and productivity.

patterns, but also throw in current market conditions and seasonality, and hope for the best.

Companies require to increase the demand and the ultimate goal should be the maximization of the profit. Supply Chain Management picks up where manufacturing ends and its role is to distribute the product in different markets as per the segmentation. This can be done by the use of the same disruptive technologies that were used in smart manufacturing.

Smart Manufacturing is supported by Government through Industrial Incentives Government around the world is supporting innovation in manufacturing as it is an important part of the government agenda in many countries. It creates jobs, technological innovation, and supports economic activities in the country.

One of the ways that the Government stimulates manufacturing is through research and development programs. The authorities collaborate with industry experts and support them with incentives for innovation in manufacturing. Research and development activity is important because economies that have consistent development in technology bound to have high levels of economic growth.

Smart Manufacturing is changing the process of manufacturing for better. Companies that implemented the technique nudged ahead of the competition. The inclusion of Smart Manufacturing can improve the design-tomanufacturing process and help in creating highly distinguished, cheaper and competitive products that are needed for the market. It is a strong disruptive force with the capacity to change the current competitive outlook and produce new market leaders. Companies that are slow to embrace new technologies and processes might not get a competitive edge.

Supply Chain Management as an Extension of Smart Manufacturing Supply chains require getting away from forecast and adopting the demand-driven approach.

Forecasts can be inaccurate sometimes. Companies cannot only depend on historic sales

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How Should Businesses Monitor Their Opera onal And Compliance Risks?

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here are countless types of risk. When risk management is discussed, most refer to the portfolio risk and if the organization’s financial decisions are leading to a potential loss.

However, as mentioned, the list of what defines risk management is more in depth than what one may first assume. Two vastly important sectors of risk management are operational risk and compliance risk. These two segments of risk management are sometimes grouped together, but actually have significant differences that set them apart.

Operational risk management refers to the exposures in the day to day operations of an organization. The exposures are often result from user error or a failure within the process. More so today, we can go as far to include data security and cyber security under the same category of operational risk management.

On the other hand, compliance risk management is the exposure to fines resulting from the failure to meet regulatory requirements or standards that have been put in place. On the small scale this could be

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related to work place safety but can be as complex as the overall environmental impact of a decision.

The vital importance of these two types or risk management is how quickly they can become overlooked or quickly spiral out of control without proper tools to monitor and manage them. At times, it may seem easier to pay small fines than take the time and resources to invest in ways to manage these types of risk. However, a small oversight has the potential to result in a catastrophic loss.

Advanced Enterprise Technologies, Inc. are aware of the need for a simplified methodology for managing operational and compliance risk and have implemented the proper tools to mitigate these exposures.

Quadra® is unique within the marketplace for a variety of reasons. The SaaS web application manages asset lifecycle plans and risk flawlessly.

Quadra software features a streamlined, sensible user-interface and tools that display data from multiple angles. The latest addition to the software is a specific risk management module that allows

Stephen Malloy COO

Advanced Enterprise Technologies, Inc. users to easily search company and industry standards. As discussed previously, operational and compliance risk management are substantial parts of managing risk.

Exposures that arise from the day to day functions of an organization could cost a company millions of dollars if one resulted in a loss. To support the enterprise risk management ideology, risk management needs to be the preeminent force of daily tasks for every member of the organization.

Compliance is key, so having standards readily available for all users regardless of level of authority, creates an exceptional layer of mitigation.

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Moddler: The Ultimate Platform For Turning Your Ideas Into 3D Wonders

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ver the past few years, the 3D printing technology has evolved on a rapid scale as compared to other industry trends. Currently, it is offering a wide range of services that cater to multiple markets and is not just limited to rapid prototyping. Moreover, these advanced printers are capable of using different kinds of materials, which include more of metal printing than plastic printing.

The challenge, however, lies in the speed and size of printing. Today, growth in the 3D printing market has more than doubled thereby giving opportunities to new entrants but also increasing the internal competition. Therefore, as ‘3D printing’ continues to gain popularity, it undoubtedly becomes an essential ingredient in the “Industry 4.0”.

Contributing by adding a new spin on the fourth industrial revolution, Moddler is an innovative manufacturing company that is reshaping the identity of a 3D printing service. It is doing this by leveraging the latest 3D printing technology and redefining the ‘plastic-possibility’ with its

Leader’s Exciting Journey from Rebuilding Historical Sites to Joining Moddler In 2015, Jared Murnan, the COO of Moddler joined the company under the influence of the VFX veteran and Emmy-award winner, John Vegher (Owner & CEO). Since then, Jared has been striving to make Moddler as one of the leading manufacturers in the market. Moddler’s dynamic COO has completed his BA in Animation/VFX with a specialization in 3D modelling. Additionally, with years of working experience in cultural heritage preservation, Jared has developed and maintained a split background between digital and traditional arts. Before Moddler, he worked on digitally rebuilding historical sites from the ancient world because of his keen interest in traditional arts. While on this culturally influenced journey of a 3D generalist, he came across the manufacturing industry, became fascinated by it, and later joined Moddler to take it to new heights of success.

We create physical models of your digital designs, at amazing speed and accuracy. seamless and next to perfect models, which inherit extreme details. Presently, Moddler’s 3D printing services are designed for the film and media industry, but in the coming years, the company plans to expand its footprints in other industries too.

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Commenting on his passion and devotion towards work, Jared asserts, “I care about the work we produce and take each project seriously, as maintaining quality is imperative to our business. I really enjoy having direct contact with clients and each project that comes through our doors.”

More of a Manufacturing Innovator than a Follower

Consistency in Quality and Execution

Since the beginning, Moddler has always been a path setter than a follower. Many companies came, pivoted models using 3D printing technology, and diminished with times.

However, Jared believes that there have not been many manufacturers focusing on 3D printing as a service.

Impressively, the quality that sets Moddler apart from the others is its sharp focus on getting the highest resolution right. To achieve this, Moddler works with the cutting-edge technologies and softwares and also closely monitors all the market trends and stays ahead of the competition.

With challenges like the saturation of various services, technologies, and materials on the manufacturer’s end, and a wide variety of specialized needs on the clients’ end, Moddler is aiming to offer a customizable service, with transparency in its capabilities, and consistency. In the upcoming future, Jared feels that the company will keep on growing at a rapid pace if it maintains the quality of services and detailed execution of strategies with a little personal touch.

This innovative and path setting ideology can be seen from the inception of the company. Initially, Moddler served many visual effects clients, but now, the scenario has changed. Several filmmakers still choose the manufacturing innovator for figurative models and props, but its latest clientele include the tech companies and architectural firms in the primary markets. Till date, Moddler has worked with several high prolific clients such as Tippet Studio on the Holochess pieces used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 3D models used in Men in Black 3.

Providing Detailed and High-Quality 3D Assets The core service of the company is to turn the clients’ digital models into incredibly detailed physical models to use as prototypes for design validation, visual approval models or physical props. Moddlers’ first printer remains its workhorse. The Stratasys Object printers use a polyjet process just like inkjet printing, and the highlight is the fine detail it delivers with excellent accuracy. The technology prints with an amazing layer of thickness of only 16 microns, which is approximate 1/5th the thickness of a human hair. Its most recent services include 3D scanning with a resolution of about 0.1mm.

Along with 3D printing, it also offers FDM printing technology with ABS material, which is a great option for early renditions, and checking size and form of clients’ designs. The company brings the model by turning it into the 21st century process and allows its customers to communicate their designs more accurately, quickly, and easily than ever before. On this, Jared says, “The 3D printing technology we offer, coupled with our digital production experience, means you will be able to have richly detailed, physical models of your digital assets in any size or quantity that suits your needs. And we can ship most orders in 2 business days.”

Jared Murnan COO

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OpenPro: A Leader In Licensed Enterprise Resource Planning

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ncepted in 1998, OpenPro is the first fully web-based application in the industry. The knowledge and experience behind the OpenPro aids the client to run the system faster. It is also known as one of the most powerful web-based application. Since its inception, OpenPro is primarily dedicated to producing the ERP system designed to run on the web. The OpenPro’s open source ERP system provides accounting software for manufacturing companies irrespective of the sizes.

and automation is built into all parts of OpenPro, Ecommerce, Manufacturing Chart of Accounts and Bills of Materials, and Specialized reports for manufacturers. For very large and global manufacturers, OpenPro provides all the capabilities required, including Multi-language and multi-currency, Work flow management, Document imaging, Knowledge base, Report writer, CMMS, and Information Management System.

Manufacturing ERP Software: Value Added Data Flow

The modular design of OpenPro provides manufacturers with the option to select the modules that meet all the current requirements. It includes: Financials, Manufacturing, Distribution, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and E-commerce. Complete Accounting Software for OpenPro provides powerful ERP software for manufacturing companies of all sizes that is cost-effective, comprehensive and flexible. OpenPro offers a variety of implementation and hosting options for Small and large manufacturers. Many companies choose OpenPro for more value and more features in their manufacturing accounting software. It delivers web-based ERP software solutions to small and mid-sized companies as well as international enterprises.

For larger manufacturers who need more capabilities from its manufacturing ERP software, It offers a complete range of function including Manufacturing Inventory Control, including raw materials through finished goods, Distribution management, Order tracking, Purchasing management, Inventory Control Management, Bar coding

OpenPro supports most industries with a complete ERP software solution. As a provider of Manufacturing ERP software, OpenPro excels in its MES software and manufacturing inventory software. The Financial Accounting software supports a closed loop financial flow and offers government accounting software. OpenPro’s latest version 9 is flexible enough to run on any industry standard operating system and SQL database. With realtime, online high performance Manufacturing ERP software, OpenPro delivers outstanding product depth and breadth with a superior price-performance ratio. It’s Manufacturing Inventory software provides information for optimal investment decisions, and the Financial Accounting software provides integrated management control from the shop floor to accounting.

OpenPro Manufacturing has flexible controls to accommodate all types of manufacturers. It is a complete manufacturing ERP solution that includes estimating, quoting, Sales Order processing, configurator, Work Order

Our “Value Added Data Flow” for manufacturing provides a real time report of the status of your business so you can keep your customers properly informed.

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processing, production scheduling, labor tracking, job costing, shipping, and MES software.

Understanding the Latest Challenges with Precise Customer Demand

Veteran in Management Information Systems

The shortage of skilled labor is generally one of the major challenges faced by any company. With skilled labors there are various other challenges such as highly salary expectations and others. OpenPro has designed with EASE OF USE as the core product. It helps the company with to hire labor with fewer skills that can easily process transactions, work orders, and schedules. There are various new technologies happening every now and then and keeping up with technologies is not an easy task. OpenPro has plug-ins to automated manufacturing machines to keep track of quantities completed, quality and more. Further, OpenPro has an intelligent system that uses AI to help with analyzing its data.

Jim Clark, Co-founder and CEO of OpenPro has an experience of over 30 years as manager for a Value Added integrator of ERP solutions in Southern California. Jim has successfully completed his BA at California State University Fullerton with emphasis in Management Information Systems. He holds certifications in Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SQL and IBM DB2. He is also certified with the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). Jim has worked with several manufacturing companies as a manufacturing specialist for companies like Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Printronix and then decided to help the small to medium size manufacturing companies with an innovative product at a reasonable cost.

Jim has a wide understanding of ERP business solutions and issues, and also has contacts with the individuals responsible for purchasing information technology for ERP solutions. He managed one of the web hosting companies in Southern California and having combined experience with ERP solutions and web hosting to create OpenPro ERP solutions.

Adhering to the Quality Standards

Innovation helps companies to stay ahead of its competitors in the industry. Innovation is directly related to customer satisfaction. Once the customers are satisfied with the new innovative solution, the success rate of the company goes up. Jim says, “Customer satisfaction and success are the two main objectives of OpenPro.” Innovation also makes the company as a leader in the industry who clearly ahead of others and leading with the advanced solutions.

Leadership strive to be number one with a clear goal.

Integrity is how OpenPro treat everyone involved in the organization. Passion to succeed is one of the core values of the company and listening to the customers and working with them to achieve success.

OpenPro has years of experience solving manufacturing concerns in environments like Job shops, Aerospace, and Tool, Medical, Pharmaceuticals, Die and Mold Making.

With this foundation, OpenPro continually enhances its solutions in response to customer demands and the rapidly changing manufacturing marketplace. OpenPro has evolved to meet the changing needs of manufacturers in industries such as printing, furniture, and machine building. Whether it is user defined calculators, parametric configurators, or data collection technology, the company continually improves the products to deliver workable solutions to manufacturers.

OpenPro uses state of the art features that are built into the manufacturing process, including ISO 9000, Quality Standards, FDA Standards, Just In Time, KanBan, and Lean Manufacturing, to reduce Inventory Control purchase and maximize efficiency. The manufacturing system also uses bar coding and wireless terminals for point of entry manufacturing.

Jim Clark Co-founder & CEO

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Expert Views

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echnologies of additive manufacturing known as 3D printing (3DP) are considered to be the future of rapid prototyping, small and even big production lines for industry. There are several technologies distinguished by the phenomena they are based on and materials they are utilising. Reading this article you will learn how SLS 3D printing works and what are the differences between the main 3D printing technologies.

The most popular 3D printing technologies

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is the most known of them all. It is a bottom-up technique based on melting of the filament and depositing it on a table layer-by-layer according to the sliced model. FDM utilizes mostly plastic-based materials such as polylactide (PLA) or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer (ABS).Another popular technique is stereolithography (SLA) – it is the oldest, dating back to the 1970’s, 3DP process operating on photochemical cross-linking and curing of the material with the help of UV lasers. Materials that are feasible for this type of printing are mostly resins – synthetic or natural.

Among many other techniques, there is one with extraordinary potential which is yet to be explored – Selective Laser Sintering (SLS).

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3D Printing techniques comparison

How Selective Laser Sintering works?

SLS operation principle is powder sintering with the help of infrared laser in elevated temperature which helps the grains of the powder to consolidate before being bound with the laser beam. In the conventional SLS printer, there is a so-called “bed” on which the roller spreads a thin layer of powder followed by sintering according to the layers sliced from a 3D model file (e.g. a .stl file (derived from CAD-like designing software).

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A “cake� from Sinterit Lisa

Heart model printed with Sinterit Lisa SLS 3D Printer

Afterwards, the platform moves down by a small increment and the process repeats until the last layer is formed. After the process comes the post-processing part which requires removing the model from the unsintered powder suspension and sandblasting it. There is where the real advantage of SLS comes in. Unlike FDM, SLS is available to 3D print without any support structures for models with complex geometry for they are suspended in powder. Moreover, one can easily print moveable objects right away.

Scheme of a SLS 3D printer basing on the construction of Sinterit Lisa.

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Materials for SLS 3D printers and outlook But one can come up with a question of materials available for SLS. The variety is broad – from different metal powders utilized mostly in the automotive industry to polyamides (i.e. Sinterit PA12 Smooth – a nylon 12 powder) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) such as Flexa Black. All powders can be altered for the specific application so everyone can achieve desired mechanical properties of the model.

SLS is actually a zero waste technology where the unsintered powder can be used for next prints over and over again. A vital aspect is its way of reutilizing the used powder and it’s refresh ratio (amount of fresh powder you need to add to the used one to maintain the printing quality). In theory, one can use the same powder all over with the fraction of the new one. However, some of the powders can oxidize quickly and require the presence of neutral gas atmosphere such as nitrogen or oxygen to preserve the print quality. This type of solution is present in Sinterit’s Lisa PRO which has a nitrogen intake.

Printouts from di erent kinds of materials:

TPU material

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Ear model: TPU

Raspberry Pi case: PA11 Onyx

There are two main types of SLS printers – industry grade and benchtop. The former are tremendously expensive (dozens of thousands of dollars) and the benchtop ones, more affordable, such as Lisa or Lisa PRO for a couple of thousands of dollars. The main difference is the print volume, automatization of the process and the material range. The benchtop ones are ideal for academic research, rapid prototyping, and even small serial production. The true potential of SLS lies in the new materials with tailored-fit properties (conductivity, heat-resistance, water-repellant, you name it!). By many futurists, Additive Manufacturing is a production technique which will definitely overtake the future!

If this article made you hungry for knowledge, check out the next part: Selective Laser Sintering in Details

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Material: Flexa Soft

About Sinterit Sinterit is the first manufacturer of desktop selective laser sintering 3D printers, with a mission to accelerate the world’s development by giving everyone access to innovative 3D printing SLS technology. It focuses on ease of use, versatility and availability, so that tomorrow can happen today. The company, founded by former Google employees with experience in the industry since 2014, delivers reliable, high-precision printers to customers around the world. During its four years on the market, Sinterit LISA has printed thousands of 3D products. For more information visit www.sinterit.com or follow @Sinterit on Facebook, Twitter or watch our new film on YouTube.

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Industry Updates

MANUFACTURING: Latest Trends And How They Are Revitalizing The Sector

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roduction of various products requires several stages, from domestic production of the needle to the manufacturing of huge machines including giant ships. Manufacturing mostly uses the latter range of manufacturing and refers to the commercial industrial production of goods for sale and consumption with the help of tools and advanced machinery. Manufacturing involves changing the shape of raw materials into products fit for final use known as finished products.

The subject of manufacturing technology is very vast and includes various types of tools are required to manufacture finished products which range from simple hand-held tools, lathe machines, grinders, milling machines to highly adaptable and complicated computerized numerical control or CNC machines and so forth.

Slowdown and its consequences on manufacturing Low consumer demand has negatively affected production in the automobile and allied sectors, as well as consumer goods. While the base effect has pushed it down, the slowdown in the auto and durable goods segments is quite palpable and is getting reflected slowly in other sectors, too.

Policymakers of Industry and Internal Trade have emphasized on this issue and cited various factors for the slowdown such a slackening domestic demand, global uncertainty weakening demand for exports, and prevailing low levels of investment.

Latest trends in manufacturing and hope of growth IoT: Manufacturers are increasingly leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT), which entails the interconnection of unique devices within an existing internet infrastructure, to achieve

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a variety of goals including cost lowering, improved efficiency and safety, meeting compliance requirements, and product innovation. IoT's survival is based on three factors: widely Internet access, sensors, and cloud computing. IoT and predictive analytics are having a major influence on manufacturing, offering exciting new chances for linking operations and transforming business processes.

Innovation is driving business development, and technology is allowing manufacturers to enhance with an increasingly digital-first business environment.

Predictive Maintenance: Predictive maintenance programs monitor equipment using any number of performance metrics. By self-configuring the data collection process by the use of IoT technology, manufacturers can establish a better understanding of how systems work and when they will fail. The capability to predict when maintenance should be performed saves manufacturers valuable time, money, and resources. Generally, supervised tests can be conducted while equipment is in operation, which means there is no loss of production due to equipment shutdown.

B2B2C: Many manufacturers who traditionally had a B2B business model are shifting to a B2B2C (business-tobusiness-to-consumer) model due to the many benefits selling directly to consumers provides including increased profit, faster time in the market, brand control, price control, and better customer data. To successfully sell direct to consumers you'll need to select the right e-commerce operations that support both your B2B and B2C sales platforms. It will have to supply order fulfillment and tracking, secure payments, customer service management, and sales and marketing activity tracking while providing a 360° view of all your B2B and B2C customer interactions.

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D Printing: The producer will benefit from quicker, less costly manufacturing as a result of 3D printing. It makes fast-paced prototyping, which is a highly costeffective way for product designers to test and troubleshoot their products, possible. In addition, it allows manufacturers to manufacture items on demand instead of having to manufacture and warehouse them.

The expensive and lengthy process of tooling for manufacturers is already being transformed by 3D printing.

Manufacturing of molds, jigs, and fixtures used in the mass production of heavy equipment take months previously, was very expensive and typically involved utilizing tooling companies headquartered overseas. 3D printing makes it possible for tooling to be cost-effectively completed on-site, in days and has already been embraced by the automotive and aerospace manufacturing industries.

VR and AR: Assistive technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), will continue to create mutually beneficial partnerships between man and machine that positively impact manufacturers. VR is quick to modify

and add to the product design stage before they go into modeling and manufacturing processes. It can also cut down inspection time and assist in detecting errors in addition to improving workers' sightline, which enables them to complete tasks faster.

Technology is making every step of the manufacturing process smoother The manufacturing industry has become an important sector in promoting economic growth across the globe. Only the development of modern forms of the industry can guarantee the most rapid and steady movement along the road of progress. The present role of the manufacturing industry is that it makes it possible not to hurry with the development of certain branches and enterprises. Manufacturing is getting more efficient, customized, modular, and automated.

But factories remain in dilemma. Manufacturers are known to be sluggish adopters of technology, and many may oppose making any new investments. As digitization becomes the new standard in the industry, competitive stress will intensify the inventive to grow.

Most of the changes in manufacturing will come through robotics, AI, and basic IoT digitization. Better data and advanced robotics will maximize a factory's output while minimizing cost and defects. Meanwhile, as cutting-edge categories like block-chain and AR are being piloted in industrial settings, manufacturing could eventually be taken to unprecedented levels of frictionless production and worker augmentation.

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