Additive Manufacturing, Opportunities and Application Solutions

Among 4.0 technologies, additive manufacturing enables design flexibility and production speed, two key elements for innovation and business competitiveness. Making the most of the potential of these technologies requires work on skills, culture and the development of an ecosystem that is not yet sufficient to support industrial production in terms of productivity.

Benefits expected by companies from the Digitization of Production Processes

It is a key aspect of increasing process efficiency, reducing time to market and streamlining the diversification of business models. It helps to derive value from the huge amount of data available in factories, which can now be used for predictive analyses of systems behavior, in the direction of increasingly data-driven factories. Digitization in manufacturing processes allows both in the design phase and in the actual industrial phase to have an overview ensuring speed of reaction to the relevant market.

Is Training a contingent need or a strategic lever?

Companies have a great need for technological expertise, but above all they need to train managers of the transition to Industry 4.0, people, professionals who promptly and decisively guide the company along the path of digitization and re-organization of industrial and business processes.

CIM4.0’s services: Training, Research Projects and Pilot Lines, what is most relevant to SMEs?

The services offered by CIM4.0 aim to support the development of Italian manufacturing, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises. The Competence Center’s role is central because, with the help and expertise of its consortium members, it fosters the growth of the industrial ecosystem, bringing together operators from the manufacturing world with those from the service world, in order to streamline production lines while also thinking about new markets.