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7 Critical Steps on the Digital Transformation Roadmap

It’s time to revitalize American manufacturing now.  There’s so much at stake here. In March 2022, the manufacturing sector employed 12,657,000 people with an average income of $92,832. Taken alone, manufacturing in the US would be the eighth-largest economy globally.  A failing manufacturing sector would hit the US economy hard. The ripple effects would impact […]
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PDM Consulting: Why “Here’s your license. Good luck!” Doesn’t Work

Do you keep your design files in a shared network drive? How about a cloud storage solution like Dropbox or OneDrive, an old-fashioned filing cabinet, or locked away in old emails you’ve sent to yourself or others? If so, you need product data management consulting. PDM (product data management) consulting is the practice of helping […]
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How Manufacturing Automation Is Shaping the Future of Your Industry

As covered in our previous blog post, Demand-Side Trends and Digital Manufacturing Technologies, automation is poised to play a pivotal role in the future of manufacturing. In a space where employment rates are falling steadily, automation can, in fact, help increase retention and attract top talent back to the industry.  In this post, we’re going […]
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Digital Manufacturing Technologies: The Latest Demand-Side Trends

It’s no secret that technology is transforming the manufacturing space. Each year, new digital manufacturing technologies are becoming staples of the sector–changing the industry for the better in myriad ways.  Which developments are most important for your business and what impact could they have on your operations? In this post, we’ll share our predictions for […]
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Five Challenges for Manufacturing Startups

It’s no surprise that starting a business can be challenging but starting a manufacturing business comes with its own set of obstacles. Manufacturing requires high upfront and ongoing operating costs and is continuously evolving as processes improve. A manufacturing startup must be flexible and ready to meet the demands of the market. This article explores […]
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Structuring, Migrating, and Sharing Better with Engineering Data Management Software

I’ve never met a manufacturer that takes pleasure in managing, structuring, and migrating their engineering and design files. It can be a time-consuming, budget-swallowing, catastrophe-laden process that distracts designers and engineers from doing their best work. But technology changes fast, and new software relegates old, making engineering data management software and data migration an inevitable feature […]
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How to Get Started on Drawing Automation

Check out this review to understand the past trainings and the next steps that we will cover in this blog. In the first webinar session of this series, we went over how to get started with Visual Studio. Our second session walks through how to create basic geometry in Inventor API. Finally, the last session covers pushing values to inventor parameters.    In this blog, we […]
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