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3YOURMIND has announced the launch of its Agile Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software at the AMUG Conference in Chicago.
The Agile MES is said to enable additive manufacturing facilities to benefit from digital production planning and software-driven workflows to improve efficiency and machine utilisation. It has been brought to market after an Early Access Program facilitated direct feedback from users and developers of additive manufacturing technologies, including Voestalpine, Eckhart, EOS and Tenco.
Smart part prioritisation, schedule overview of production resources, and the ability to create custom workflows per specific processes, were determined with the help of the early access participants. The aim is to achieve the vision of data-driven automation on the production floor, a goal which will be helped by additional feature sets which will continue to de developed in the coming months, and one which will ultimately change the way manufactures produce products.
"For Agile Manufacturing, the Agile MES will need to both get and push data from all major AM machines and post-processing systems," commented Stephan Kühr, CEO, 3YOURMIND. "We are already integrating the data from several vendors into our software and expect to support all major machines. Receiving and processing machine data allows us to provide the documentation that is needed for quality assurance and to increase the repeatability of additive manufacturing. Pushing data directly to machines will be the key to automating production.”
“Agile MES helps us to optimise our workflow so that our machine efficiency is higher," offered Tom Castermans, founder and owner of Tenco DDM. "It also helped us to minimise our paper workflow as the system gives every operator the ability to check all required data, to select the right steps in post processing and to make sure every part is finished in the right way.”
