August 2023

Those of you who’ve followed our work for a while will know that we’ve always been interested in exploring how our lessons and tools from the additive world could help in other industries. I’m pleased to report that we’ve been able to make the first steps in in this direction. 

Over the last months, the team has been working on transitioning legacy clients of our Elements acquisition last year to Authentise’s main Flows tool. That includes companies like Carpenter, who are now using the tool the manage and streamline the powder production process in the UK. The users there noticed several advantages, including the detailed traceability, ability to tie in manufacturing data directly from machines, and flexibility in the workflow creation. 

It's an exciting use of our existing tools, but of course we had to make a couple changes to tune Flows to the needs of powder producers. As you can imagine a “line item” doesn’t quite look the same for them: 

Another change was to test our ERP integration skills, which we’ve already documented in this case study. Now, we can also automatically generate Orders and Workflows from files exported from Microsoft’s Dynamics Nav ERP. 

Of course, we don’t stop there in our expansion outside of additive. Some of you may have seen me tease our success in securing a large new engagement, search for a new project manager (know anyone?) and a subsequent posting about our day out at the National Composite Centre (what a team 😍)

Can you guess what we’ve got cooking next?

Of course, we’re not about to abandon additive. In fact, after a successful month securing commitments in the industry, we’ve got more drive there than ever before. It’s just a super exciting time to learn and teach more broadly. Join us on the journey and get in touch!