to help designers take a good idea and turn it into a manufac- tured reality in less time than ever before. Meanwhile, the factories of today are poised to become more flexible, adaptable, and reconfigurable in order to pro- duce a wider variety of products from within the walls of a single factory, so that they can deliver more personalized and individualized products to consumers. ME: What do you expect from the manufacturing economy in 2014? White: As I alluded to in my previous response, the companies that are best able to meet the market demand for individualized, personalized products are going to be the ones who will thrive in this new environment.
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call it Gibbs Can!”
For a consumer products manu-
facturer, that means that instead of producing 100 million smartphones a year that all look virtually the same, they will now offer a high degree of customization and build phones to customer specifications. Potentially, no two phones would be the same. It also means more local manufac- turing. Sneakers, for example, will no longer be manufactured halfway around the world by an anonymous individual— they will be manufactured close to the consumer. We used to know the people who made our products, and consum- ers are seeking to regain that ‘personal’ connection to the products they buy. Small-batch manufacturing also means more urban manufacturing. The availability of increasingly affordable 3D printers allows for spaces that normally wouldn’t have been appropriate for a manufacturing facility—say, a loft in Manhattan—to function perfectly well as a small-scale factory.
In responding to these trends, manufacturers will merely be doing what successful businesses have always done: give the market what it is asking for. ME
Drills used to rescue Chilean miners were made with CNCs programmed by GibbsCAM.
Brandon Fisher, Center Rock founder and CEO (left), with Richard Soppe, down-hole-drill project manager
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Center Rock Inc., of Berlin, PA, combined state-of-the-art
technology and expertise to CUT IN HALF the time to rescue 33 Chilean miners. Today, Center Rock programmers and machinists continue to accelerate production of drills and drill bits by using GibbsCAM. GibbsCAM integrates all operations. As a result, when
programming mill-turn or MTM, the CNC programmer stays within the same user interface — dramatically saving time while providing unmatched ease of use.
If you’re searching for CAM software that can provide breakthrough performance... Gibbs Can! ®
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