Fireside Chat: FedEx's CIO on the future of the digital supply chain
Rob Carter has served as FedEx's Chief Information Officer for nearly 20 years, developing the company's information infrastructure and impl...
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The Digital Factory
The future of manufacturing is digital. We explore the technologies that are transforming fabrication, from advanced 3D printing to AI-assisted design, and get to know the leaders who are br...
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20 of 26 episodesEpisode 25: Sustainability as a business model
Corporate sustainability has its roots in risk management and health and safety management—sort of a conservative, back-office function. Now...
Episode 24: The environmental impact of 3D printing is not what you'd expect
How sustainable is 3D printing? Ask most experts and you’ll get some hand-waving: it creates less waste than machining and reduces transport...
Episode 23: Terry Wohlers on 3D printing at scale
Terry Wohlers, President of Wohlers Associates and author of the authoritative Wohlers Report on 3D printing, is my guest on this episode of...
Episode 22: Networked, Decentralized, AI-driven manufacturing with Bram de Zwart
3D Hubs reoriented its business last fall, away from hobbyists and toward the professional market. Now it’s planning to invest heavily in AI...
Episode 21: Inside the world's largest 3D printing operation
The 3D printers at Align Technology turn out half a million parts every day—an exceptional scale that makes the company the largest user of...
Episode 20: Standard reference peanut butter with Steven Choquette
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, offers a striking catalog of reference materials that includes peanut butter, N...
Episode 19: Dayna Grayson: can startups compete in manufacturing?
It’s difficult to sell new technologies to big manufacturers. If you’ve got a novel way to build things and a fresh startup to market it, yo...
Episode 18: Jeff Immelt on the Four A’s of Advanced Manufacturing
The Digital Factory Conference, our advanced-manufacturing leadership summit, is coming back to Boston on May 7. This year it’s got a new co...
Episode 17: 2018 in review
Jon Bruner and Andrew Edman talk about the value of proprietary manufacturing technology, the aesthetics of generative design, the influence...
Episode 16: Live from Formnext with Joris Peels, Nora Toure, and John Hart
Last week a large part of the 3D printing industry gathered in Frankfurt to visit Formnext, an immense additive manufacturing trade show. In...
Episode 15: Stephen Hooper on the integration of design and manufacturing
Computer aided design software is becoming more sophisticated: it’s moving to the cloud, it’s beginning to offer generative capabilities, an...
Episode 14: Elizabeth Koprucki reflects on IMTS
This week we present three conversations from IMTS, the giant manufacturing technology trade show that comes to Chicago every other year. In...
Episode 13: Zach Kaplan reflects on IMTS
This week we present three conversations from IMTS, the giant manufacturing technology trade show that comes to Chicago every other year. In...
Episode 12: Spencer Wright on IMTS
This week we present three conversations from IMTS, the giant manufacturing technology trade show that comes to Chicago every other year. In...
Episode 11: How Jabil Circuit Adopts New Manufacturing Technologies with John Dulchinos
Jabil Circuit is a $20 billion contract manufacturer that produces everything from specialized medical devices to mobile phone accessories....
Episode 10: CAD in the cloud with Jon Hirschtick
Computer aided design, or CAD, has followed the arc of computing over the last 50 years: the first CAD programs were command-line applicatio...
Episode 9: 3D Printing for Railroads with Stefanie Brickwede
It’s hard to imagine an application for 3D printing that’s more complex or heavier-duty than keeping a railroad running, but Deutsche Bahn,...
Episode 8: 4D Printing with Kristina Shea
Most people who design 3D printed objects want them to keep their shape as closely as possible after printing, but an emerging field known a...
Episode 7: Digital Assembly with Michael Todd
Product assembly is a big factor in production time, labor cost, and complexity. 3D printing can be used to consolidate multiple parts into...