Great news!
Big congratulations to Karen Caswelch, COO of Irvine, California's Archytas Automation and her team (left to right, Ryan Polk, co-founder and CEO Archytas Automation, Karen Caswelch, co-founder and COO, Archytas Automation and Martin Back, Managing Director, BASF Forward AM), back from Barcelona, having won the grand prize out of 112 contenders, 16 semi-finalists and 4 finalists - for the BASF Forward AM 2022 Innovation Award. This is certainly big news for American manufacturing experiencing massive innovation leaps along with difficult labor, supply chain and technology challenges. But we know how to do this, folks - we've got the pieces and we are putting it all together, bit by leaping bit.
Big congratulations to Karen Caswelch, COO of Irvine, California's Archytas Automation and her team (left to right, Ryan Polk, co-founder and CEO Archytas Automation, Karen Caswelch, co-founder and COO, Archytas Automation and Martin Back, Managing Director, BASF Forward AM), back from Barcelona, having won the grand prize out of 112 contenders, 16 semi-finalists and 4 finalists - for the BASF Forward AM 2022 Innovation Award. This is certainly big news for American manufacturing experiencing massive innovation leaps along with difficult labor, supply chain and technology challenges. But we know how to do this, folks - we've got the pieces and we are putting it all together, bit by leaping bit.
"The Islands of Excellence...and 'The Others' "
"The Islands of Excellence...and 'The Others' "
It's time. In our 1999 Free Press book The Technology Machine, How Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2020, plc-creator Dick Morley and I listed 127 "Wild Cards" - projections of how manufacturing - and society - would work and look. Wild Card #2 (page 41) predicted the replacement of mass production and its complex hierarchies with micro factories. ... just like Archytas Automation. Distributed, localized manufacturing is on its way.
It's time. In our 1999 Free Press book The Technology Machine, How Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2020, plc-creator Dick Morley and I listed 127 "Wild Cards" - projections of how manufacturing - and society - would work and look. Wild Card #2 (page 41) predicted the replacement of mass production and its complex hierarchies with micro factories. ... just like Archytas Automation. Distributed, localized manufacturing is on its way.
Additive manufacturing is key to moving this next industry challenge forward. In fact says COO Caswelch, "the big picture shows us using additive for products, plus business strategy, and so that means not only that our micro factories can be used all over the world, but that it enables sustainable delivery of product, job creation - it's no longer just about turning out a part. And I think that's why we won - people realized that this is the next move for manufacturing!"
Additive manufacturing is key to moving this next industry challenge forward. In fact says COO Caswelch, "the big picture shows us using additive for products, plus business strategy, and so that means not only that our micro factories can be used all over the world, but that it enables sustainable delivery of product, job creation - it's no longer just about turning out a part. And I think that's why we won - people realized that this is the next move for manufacturing!"
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Patricia E. Moody
FORTUNE magazine "Pioneering Woman in Mfg"
IndustryWeek IdeaXchange Xpert
A Mill Girl at Blue Heron Journal, on-line resource for business thought-leaders and decision-makers, patriciaemoody@gmail.com
For more, watch for upcoming book Reboot! (sm), The New American Manufacturing Revolution, 5.0