“Identify3D provides design protection, quality assurance, and secure data distribution for digital manufacturing. They are experts in data distribution and digital rights management ensuring security and integrity of data along the complete manufacturing value chain – from design to the final product,” said Uwe Ruttkamp, Head of Business Segment Machine Tools Systems at Siemens. “Security and digital rights management will gain more and more importance in various industries.”
Companies’ design data can also be protected by setting limits on how many parts can be manufactured, and repeatability can be managed by indicating on which machine, with what parameters, and using which materials each part is produced. Data obtained through this process provides traceability for in-depth analytics and reporting.
“Siemens understands the importance of creating an efficient and reliable digital supply chain and is creating the industry standard for the Digital Factory,” said Stephan Thomas, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Identify3D. “We are excited to be the strategic partner chosen by Siemens to ensure a secure and repeatable digital manufacturing process.”
Based in San Francisco, Identify3D was founded in 2014 and has been working steadily to provide protective measures for companies working in digital manufacturing. The Identify3D team has several decades’ worth of collective experience in engineering, security solutions, and several other related fields.
“The promise of decentralized manufacturing cannot materialize if IP protection, data security, manufacturing repeatability, and part traceability are not assured,” Thomas told 3DPrint.com. “We believe this partnership will accelerate the adoption of new digital manufacturing technologies and enable their use beyond internal prototyping to full production of end parts at the time and place of need.”
The integrations with Siemens’ software will be demonstrated at EMO Hannover, which will be taking place from September 18th to the 23rd. The security features will be available to Siemens’ customers in December of this year. If you’d like to know more about Identify3D’s products, you can contact the company here. Discuss in the Siemens Identify3D forum at 3DPB.com.
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