December 2020
Goodbye 2020
I hope this finds you safe, warm, and full. After this year, everybody deserves a break. Most of our team is out too, and I’m finding a small gap between meals to say thank you to you for supporting us and to the team for delivering an incredibly successful 2020. Those following my updates closely will have noted some of the highlights, but just in case, we’ve put them into a short video for you too:
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed a few things that came together in the last month or so:
The public reporting of some of the impact figures we had at Boeing, who, after only onboarding this year, have already:
Seen a reduction in the time it takes to process an order by 80 percent.
Reduced build preparation time by more than 95 percent on average.
Those are huge numbers, and there’s more to come – there are still indicators left to count, and updates to make. Often, they seem like benign improvements but they’re the product of listening closely to our customers and make a huge difference to them. One example from this month is the workflow preview, which makes final engineering reviews easier and more productive.
Another news flash from the video is our recently announced partnership with nebumind, which bookends a year of partnerships with the likes of Addiguru and others. With nebumind’s sensor data fusion, which merges machine data and geometries, we’ll be able to help our users identify potential problem areas quickly.
Partners like nebumind and Addiguru are guaranteed to make 2021 a success too, with a whole barrage of new features waiting to be deployed. We’ve got some big strategic aims too, including:
Maturing: Meeting industry standards means tightening our processes. We’ve already made big moves in 2020, with first occurrences of planned downtime. In 2021 we’ll go further: one big goal is to meet the standards required of the medical industry.
Non-Additive: Now that the product has proven itself in the additive industry, we’ll be making it available to those who focus on other processes, such as machining. There are some feature and business model changes to make to get there – expect some big announcements in Q1.
Supply Chain: As you know, Authentise MES already has some pretty robust supply chain management features, allowing coordinated outsourcing of parts or specific steps. But there’s more opportunity in digitally integrated supply chains, and if 2020 has showed us anything, it’s that those innovations are desperately.
So, we’ve got our plates full and can’t wait to start, fresh and rested, into the New Year. Obviously, we’ll continue to do so in the way you’ve become accustomed to: by listening carefully to your feedback, connecting data streams where possible, and staying open to collaboration with all partners who, like us, want to help tear manufacturing into a new dawn
We hope that includes you. Thank you for your support in 2020. Merry Christmas and, as the Germans say, einen Guten Rutsch.