SAP and UPS want to make on-demand manufacturing and 3D printing an essential piece of the digital manufacturing puzzle, and the early access program is intended to help with just that. The goal of the program is to give scalable, as well as standard, business processes, so early access customers can approve, digitize, certify, and manufacture digital parts in a solid, end-to-end process. Roboze plans to take advantage of the early access program initiative from UPS and SAP to produce, according to Roboze, accurate, high-quality 3D parts from advanced metal replacement techno-polymers.
Roboze technology, and particularly its Roboze One+400 3D printer, is being used by leading customers all over the world to save on costs and increase manufacturing efficiency, including GE Global Research, Italian luxury helicopter manufacturer Mecaer Aviation Group, and Israeli defense manufacturer Cyclone, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems.
The SAP Distributed Manufacturing application has many benefits, including:
- increasing cost-effectiveness of small production and prototype runs
- improving production consistency with low-cost, high-quality certified parts
- innovating product design
- significant savings with parts inventory reduction
- faster delivery
Some of the other leading companies that are taking advantage of SAP’s early access program are EOS, Stratasys, voxeljet, Materialise, Nano Dimension, and several other big names we frequently talk about here on 3DPrint.com. The program itself is actually a part of the SAP Leonardo IoT Portfolio.
New solutions are always needed to support the 3D printing industry as it moves past prototyping to adding the innovative technology to existing manufacturing processes, and SAP’s early access program for its Distributed Manufacturing application will certainly help its customers take advantage of and gain access to the necessary resources to keep on climbing. Discuss in the Roboze forum at 3DPB.com.