May 2020
Growing up + In-process Monitoring
We’ve been running hard at building new features over the past month, motivated by the fact that we’re supporting any companies on the frontline of keeping the economy open and critical equipment available. Just how hard the team’s been running wasn’t clear to me until this week when I noticed features popping up that I never heard of us working on. Small things like:
Smart fields, so you can find what you need faster
2. Categories in the GANTT charts for those with dozens of stations in their shops
3. Material Families were introduced to help you find your orders faster: You can find materials based on whether they are sand, metal, ceramic or other
There are many more improvements aside this month: for instance, an updated quote display that shows you the price per part as well as in total, or the ability to receive information about the status of every single part in a single API call (extending our Microsoft Flow integration even further). To be honest, I knew about those two but that doesn’t distract from the fact that in a very hard time the growing team (we’re 15 people now), has done an incredible job working autonomously on specific customer issues that I’m no longer even aware of. It’s like seeing a kid grow up - I’m super proud of the team.
One last thing to mention: We’ve become especially interested in integrating computer vision systems into Authentise. It’s the natural place for them to live as we understand the context and are the system of record for any manufacturing traceability data. There are two projects going on at the moment: One is the integration of a in-process system by the startup Addiguru (press release forthcoming, but some details here). The other is actually run by a different organization (AMEXCI), which we’re supporting: they are trying to get as much EOS M290 camera data as possible to train their models. If you’re interested in participating (and we encourage you to do so), please sign up here: https://amexci.com/rosetta-protocol-call-for-action/
In the end, there will be more than one algorithm and Authentise will work with them all: Our dozen+ third party modules already show – Authentise is the platform to tie in innovative tools along the Digital Thread of Additive Manufacturing.
If you have questions, please do reach out! See you soon!