Digital Manufacturing is an efficient methodology
Companies all around the world is speeding up their product development and saving money by digital technologies. They find problem areas earlier in the process and changes are easily made and cheaper to implement. It is also ecological as data is in a digital, rather than physical form.
Keeping design data digital for as long as possible, gives several advantages:
- information flow between producer, product owner and designer is fast
- development tasks are carried out faster and is cheaper
- it is easy to modify any aspect of the design
- mistakes are found out earlier
- production only for current need, no need for large warehouses
- an ecological method