June 2023

It’s great being back in London for the beginning of summer. The density of people excited about finally seeing the sun leads to general euphoria 😁☀️. That, a coronation and lots of public holidays (including today for most of you, which is why I’m sending this a day later than usual). That doesn't mean that we haven’t been busy. We’ve now got a much bigger product portfolio to cover than before: In addition to our main tool (rebranded Flows-AM), we have released a version that covers non-additive processes (Flows), and provide the quoting, material management and model library components as standalone offerings. 

This month, the team turned their attention to the model library part of the system – the Digital Design Warehouse. We’ve added significant new features that some of our Flows-AM customers have been demanding for years. 

One of them is a Shopping Cart. Previously, folks would start with an order and then add parts. Now they can add parts to a cart, and then check out with the order details. 

Focus discussions between functional user groups or subdivide your users based on an organization’s Business Segments and Divisions, and protect IP. If a Design has mass appeal, it can also be transferred to the full Company’s library such that All users can access it

It’s great to see each of the products in the portfolio gain an increasing level of depth and maturity. We’re very intrigued to see what customers ask for next for DDW, RFQ Responder, Materials Managements or Flows. One thing we do know is that, while you can have conversations about each design and assign other users tasks through our chat feature, the collaboration tools need much more depth if we’re going to speed up the Idea-To-Part (or as somebody called it the Brain-To-Box) process.

That’s a challenge we’ve been working on for a year and we’re almost ready to publicly announce. I can’t wait to tell you about it next time.

Until then, enjoy the start of the summer.