Renishaw, Identify3D partner for secure digital manufacturing

Nov. 27, 2017 – Renishaw and Identify3D have announced a collaboration to offer an end-to-end, secure digital manufacturing process.

Identify3D will provide data protection coupled with contractual and manufacturing licensing from design to production on Renishaw additive manufacturing (AM) systems. By choosing to secure all digital data in the engineering phase, the technology enables users of Renishaw systems to protect their digital intellectual property (IP), enforce production rules and provide traceability in the digital supply chain, say the parties.

“Renishaw understands how important it is to have an efficient and reliable control of data flow all the way to its machines,” said Stephan Thomas, chief strategy officer at Identify3D. “We are pleased that Renishaw, one of the world’s leading engineering and scientific technology companies, has selected Identify3D as a strategic partner to provide such a solution to the market place – from design to distribution and production.”

The two companies are currently working together on pilot projects for several manufacturing customers.

The collaboration will enable sectors such as aerospace, automotive, defence and medical devices to accelerate their adoption of AM, enabling secure distributed manufacturing across their supply chains.

“Industrializing additive manufacturing requires that we manage and control a complex chain of processes to deliver consistent, traceable and qualified parts. Secure transmission and controlled use of digital IP is critical to enable agile Industry 4.0 supply chains. We believe that Identify3D brings a strong and necessary solution that will increase these controls, minimising variation, to improve and protect AM production quality,” said Marc Saunders, director of Global Solutions Centres at Renishaw.