In today’s
scenario, companies need to have a cutting edge technology in order
to withstand the market competition. Digital
manufacturing refers to the use of computer technology to
integrate tools such as simulation, 3D visualization and analytics in
order to create layout of product manufacturing process. Digital
manufacturing is a subset of product lifecycle management (PLM) which
improves overall production efficiency. It provides and supports
process planning, factory modeling, visualization and simulation of
operations, human factor analysis and collaborative communication.
This allows manufacturing engineers to create a complete definition
of the manufacturing processes such as tooling, work centers,
assembly lines and resources in a virtual environment. It helps to
effectively plan the processes before being production of products.
Digital manufacturing takes feedback from actual production
operations and include it into the new product design process,
allowing companies to design and arrange production line during the
planning of factory layout.
The rapid growth in
PLM is expected to boost investments in digital manufacturing.
Digital manufacturing improves production efficiency and reduces time
to market for a product. It also helps company to plan and train
manpower in advance. Further, it can also validate robotics and
automation programs virtually. Digital manufacturing allows part
manufacturing processes to be optimized within a managed environment.
This will help companies to utilize its resources in efficient manner
and decrease production cost considerably. Digital manufacturing
allows to execute production processes by comparing real-time to
lifecycle data. Digital manufacturing can be used to facilitate lean
and flexible manufacturing by providing a graphical environment to
analyze dimensional variation.
But on the other
hand, high initial investment is a major constraint for this
technology which is hampering the investments from small and medium
size companies into digital manufacturing technology. The dependence
on external enterprise partners for digital manufacturing
implementation is a concern for companies as it affects their net
profitability.
Digital
manufacturing has seen more adoption in the developed economies such
as North America and Europe and some parts of Asia Pacific. Emerging
economies such as China and India will witness a greater adoption of
digital manufacturing during the coming years. Industrial sectors
such as Aerospace, defense and automotive have a wide range of
application for digital manufacturing solutions. For example, an
automotive manufacturer can design the entire manufacturing process
in digital manufacturing software at the same time when car designers
are designing the next vehicle. Because of this, manufacturing
engineers are able to provide immediate feedback to designers, if
there are any constraints in the part manufacturability. Therefore,
the application of digital manufacturing will be helpful to sectors
which contain long production processes and need advance planning.
Other industrial sectors such as transportation, consumer packaged
goods, hi-tech electronics and industrial machinery are increasingly
adopting digital manufacturing. The application of digital
manufacturing will increase during end of this decade as more and
more companies look to decrease lead time and boost profitability.
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Some of the key
companies involved in providing digital manufacturing services are
Dassault Systemes, Mentor Graphics Corporation, Parametric Technology
Corporation Inc, SAP SE, Cogiscan Inc, Krontime SL, TATA Consultancy
Services, Siemens AG, Autodesk Inc., and Aras Corporation.
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