What is Industry 4.0? It’s simply a way to efficiently and effectively leverage new digital and robotic techniques into the manufacturing process.
Such technologies include cloud services, IoT sensors and activators, robotics, wireless networking and more. These would be intelligently combined with manufacturing machines to create what one might call a “smart factory”.
Could 3D printing fit into this paradigm?
Absolutely it could. In fact, 3D printing is perhaps one of the most “flexible” means of manufacturing, as literally each print could be unique. Of course, it’s more expensive than mass manufacturing, but there are many working on that problem.
Currently, however, most 3D printing equipment is more or less “standalone” and provides only simple, if any, interfaces to a larger manufacturing ecosystem.
I believe that 3D printers could be a significant part of Industry 4.0 implementations if they were able to add on control and operational mechanisms to make the printers more “independent” and thus more able to fit into a smart factory.
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