September 2020
Collaborations
Two major announcements you’ve already heard of if you follow the 3D Printing media or our LinkedIn channel (please do!). We published 2 press releases that highlight collaborations and resulting features we’re very proud of.
The first details a collaboration with Addiguru, a computer vision startup focusing on identifying failure from in-process images (see press release here, including the coverage). Integrating this feature with Authentise has obvious advantages:
The customer is alerted immediately in a system they’re using anyway.
Further information is seamlessly added to the traceability report, even if it doesn’t involve a failure.
We can overlay additional data Authentise receives anyway, such as O2 layer data.
While the full feature is still in deployment, we are incredibly proud of this release as it not only adds really valuable new features, but also shows off our open nature. Closed platforms have slowed the industry down for far too long. I’m fresh off a rant on the topic on Forbes if you’re interested in more. SK, the founder of Addiguru, as well as another partner (ExLattice) and I are also speaking on the subject at AMT’s Smart Manufacturing Experience conference next month – sign up here to join in.
The second release focused on a new feature which we’ve been dying to tell you about, and which we collaborated closely with our customers on to birth: Digital Materials Management. It allows users to track the journey of a material simply with QR codes and our mobile app as powder is sieved, blended, scrapped, printed and more. Tracking these actions is critical as the industry still suffers from a desperate lack of knowledge about the impact powder genealogy has on final part quality. Now data is instantly available in a detailed material traceability report and can be fused with all the remaining contextual data such as geometry, test data or printer sensor data. No other tools do that. We already have the first technical studies running with the tool and couldn’t be more excited to be driving the industry forward. Ultimately, the knowledge this tool gleans can help reduce material waste and lower the requirements for virgin powder which has a 40-50% production yield rate!!
As if that was not enough: The team has made another amazing stride at pushing new features out that make the Authentise platform much more useful to teams. This time: Comments.
We’ve always had a note section, but it was just a simple text field and didn’t do a good job of showing historical information. Now you have the ability of commenting and tagging your colleagues for a conversation which gets saved in a thread. Best – the full conversation is available in the traceability report and your colleagues can’t ignore you because they get emails alerting them to your comment 😊. We have a lot more ideas for this feature so if you have any feedback, we’d love to hear from you.
Wow. I’m exhausted after such a lively September. Can’t promise you the same 1-2 punch next time but I can tell you this: The team is incredible. Not only do they deliver at the rate of knots but they have heart. We’ve been going through several sessions exploring diverse experiences and discuss how we as individuals and collectively at Authentise can do a better job of supporting those from minority backgrounds. I’ll have to tell you about the outcomes another time, but the sessions have reminded me how lucky I am to work with these folks. If you’re reading: thank you!
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