3D-printers use this principle which avoids any waste of material and allows a form-free production of a structure as compared eg. to foundry. Powder is melted via laser exactly at the spots where stiffness is needed, and remains reusable powder everywhere else.

#EOS #AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting
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Station 4 of the Industry 4.0-Tour: EOS.

EOS is a leading manufacturer of 3D-printers, and not only for plastic printing, but also for metal.

Most manufacturing methods are diminutive, means you scratch, drill, mill, cut & else excess material from a block to come to the final shape of eg. a cam shaft.

Nature does it differently: animals, plants and humans are built additively, they grow layer by layer.

#AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting
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Station 3 of the Industry 4.0 tour: #SAP

#SAPS4Hana is the latest version of the SAP ERP with optimized database performance. Like to try? https://lnkd.in/e5RUSwcN

All business processes are integrated to deliver consistent data, crossing borders between departments, countries, currencies, legal entities and else.

#SCMatSAP #DigitalSupplyChain
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Station 1 of the Industry 4.0-Tour: msg in Munich. One of the largest German consulting groups with 10 000 employees in 32 countries, they assist in implementing new industrial strategies. They also had the title of #EmployerOfTheYear.

#msg
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Station 1 of the Industry 4.0-Tour: msg. We discussed #ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) goals and the implementation.
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Station 1 of the Industry 4.0-Tour: msg. We discussed #ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) goals and the implementation.
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Station 3 of the Industry 4.0 tour: SAP

An #ERP Enterprise resource program connects all different information flows of an entity, which can contain several companies and many locations.

#SCMatSAP #SAP #SAPPopupFactory #DigitalSupplyChain
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Station 2 of the Industry 4.0 tour: Siemens

Planning a factory layout digitally allows to verify the functioning while the machines are still on the drawing board. The integration can be tested digitally, and with the help of VAR the machines can even be placed in real or virtual buildings.

The data then becomes available for other purposes like preventive maintenance, production control or else.

#TheImpulse
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Staying competitive through efficiency, quickly adapt to changes in the supply chain, cope with variations in in demand, and to increase customization of products - all challenges of the industry.

#Industry40 is the idea to connect the different elements of company processes, from planning over design, purchasing to production and aftersales, to hand over information between the systems, to analyze instantly and to react faster.

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