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Supply Chain Management and the Role of 3D Printing Digital Inventories
As the additive manufacturing (AM) industry grows beyond its humble roots as a rapid prototyping technology, it has been adopted by some of the world’s leading companies to produce not…
3D Printing and Logistics – A Natural Progression of Opportunity
Leading logistics providers are constantly exploring new possibilities to become more efficient, more locally focused and more connected globally in order to achieve greater success, including 3D printing technology. The…
FedEx Introduces New 3D Printing Services with FedEx Forward Depots
In 2016, logistics company UPS began offering on-demand 3D printing services. It wasn’t the first dip into 3D printing for the company, which began offering 3D printing services at 100…
Decentralized Production With 3D Printing
The decentralization of production is a hot topic nowadays. The idea of distributing manufacturing that lets you make products close to your customer to obtain an edge in time to…
The Where and the Who in 3D Printing
A lot of progress has been made in 3D printing over the last five years. But much of that has been focused on the “what.” What printing technology? What materials?…
SAP Announces Official Launch of SAP Distributed Manufacturing 3D Printing Application
For the last year or so, enterprise application software provider SAP has been working its way into the 3D printing industry with determination, beginning with a partnership with UPS that helped to…
On-Demand 3D Printing in SAP Distributed Manufacturing Early Access Program Increases as Roboze Joins Initiative
3D printer manufacturer Roboze, based in Italy, has been announcing partnerships all over the world in the last several months, with the most recent being its first 3D printing distribution agreement…
Carbon Introduces SpeedCell, an End-to-End Additive Manufacturing Solution that Includes the New M2 3D Printer
It’s been exactly two years since Carbon appeared seemingly out of nowhere with their industry-changing M1 3D printer and CLIP 3D printing technology. The introduction of the technology altered the…
SAP and UPS Open Up On-Demand 3D Printing Services to Additional Companies Through Expanded Early Adopters Program
Some big news broke a couple of days ago when UPS announced that they would be extending their on-demand 3D printing services to Singapore with the help of their partner…
UPS Expands On-Demand 3D Printing Services to Singapore, with Help from Fast Radius
As 3D printing expands across industries, many large corporations are feeling a bit uneasy as the way people shop and produce shifts into a new, never-before-seen model of commerce. To adapt…
APWorks Signs Co-Innovation Agreement with SAP for On-Demand & Streamlined Manufacturing of 3D Printed Components
The premise behind the quite substantial services that SAP offers is to make life easier for everyone, beginning with that large company taking a large number of orders—and accepting nothing…
UPS and SAP Prepare to Offer On-Demand 3D Printing Services
As 3D printing hype continues to sway back and forth in the public eye, the shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS) has shown over and over again that they believe…
The UPS Store in Tuscon Partners With talk3D to Help Customers Design 3D Models Online
Even as 3D printing becomes more accessible to the general public, many people still regard it as a mystery. The majority of people I know outside of the tech world…
More Than Logistics: UPS is Using 3D Printing to Completely Transform Their Industry and Business Model
The thing that has always struck me as disruptive about 3D printing is the unpredictability of who and how it is going to be used. The fact is, you just…
CloudDDM — Factory With 100 (Eventually 1,000) 3D Printers & Just 3 Employees Opens at UPS’s Worldwide Hub
Speed is everything in this day and age, as companies try to get their products to consumers as soon as physically possible. Amazon has built a business worth close to…
Why the Retail and Shipping Industries Should Fear 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing technologies are developing so rapidly, while prices are continuing to drop and mainstream adoption is getting ever so close. These could be the key ingredients to what may…