July 2024
Taking Ownership 🫡
As promised, greetings from the Costa Rican coast, where I’ve been sunning myself with 100 family members. That may sound like a lot, but I heard from another additive industry participant that 1,000 members aren’t uncommon at their family gatherings. So we’ve still got room for growth.
The same is true for our user experience. Truth be told, we’ve intentionally invested in function over looks and experience. As a result, we’ve got the deepest functionality set of any workflow provider – who else can help you track all the way down to the environmental sensor data in your material storage location, for instance? But we know it can sometimes be a bit hard to find the things you need. And some of the interfaces look like they’re from the 90’s.
So we’ve been quietly looking at improving the look, feel and flow of Flows in particular. Recently you will have noticed our User Admin page received a big makeover and heavy users will know that many system “type” level resources can now be made on the fly, rather than having to build them all out before using them for your workflows to produce parts. We aim for each of these adjustments to continue to save your team clicks and minutes, each day that they’re using our app! (Cheeky watchers might have noticed our new Login page too)
But that doesn’t stop us building net new capabilities too. For example, we’ve clarified ownership of Machine Maintenance Downtimes and Line Items. Owners receive curated lists of what they are responsible for on their own homepage. This allows for them to focus on exactly what they need to do, without getting pulled into all the other work in progress!
There are some other projects coming that I’m so excited to share with y’all. New features as well as new features. One of them that I can already tell you about is that the US Air Force has now awarded us an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity agreement with a ceiling of just shy of $1bn. This is the next stage in our evolution to using our software to deliver a better part purchasing experience. I’m excited to share more with you as we’re awarded Task Orders under this agreement.
Maybe we can discuss in person? I’m currently considering to come back over the pond for IMTS. Will you be there?
Enjoy what remains of the summer.
Pura Vida,