Fantastic news! Our Mobile Smart Factory, the modular 3D printing container factory, has been selected as Startup of the Month by 3Dnatives. Thanks a lot to the whole Bionic Production GmbH team and our great partner from Practeria and METROM Mechatronische Maschinen GmbH. Enjoy the interview with Johannes Schmidt, our Lead Product Manager, and learn how 3D printing / the Mobile Smart Factory can encourage cost efficient, decentralized production!
PROMECH provides top-notch Rapid Product Development solutions along with dedication to customer support in both software & hardware products development & manufacturing in Middle East region to provide business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations with latest affordable technologies worldwide.
- Promech was founded in 2003, located in Maadi – Cairo, Egypt.
- In 2006 opened Our Regional Office in Jeddah – Saudi Arabia “Ultimate Solutions”.
- April 2015 Launching our Office in Abu Dhabi – UAE “Promech Engineering”.
- In 2016 lunched our trainning center in Maadi, Cairo.
Karim Mohsen is Regional Sales Manager in PROMECH Group with a demonstrated history of working in industry4.0 : Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing , 3D Scanning and CAD/CAM/CAE. Skilled in international Sales, Value Selling, International Business Development, Strategic Partnerships , Channel Sales, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Why do you believe in the success of the Mobile Smart Factory in your country / region?
Karim Mohsen: “The Mobile smart factory is part of i4.0 approach that will offer ways that can successfully develop a production system to adjust to and learn from data in real time can make that goes with PROMECH Engineering Strategy towards i4.0 and direct application of the digital and Virtual twin .
the smart factory more responsive, proactive, and predictive, and enables the organization to avoid operational downtime and other productivity challenges.
We believe that Mobile Smart Factory will revolutionize the market for mobile 3D printing to provide flexible and reliable production capacities wherever needed.”
What are potential and promising applications (i. e. industries) for the Mobile Smart Factory?
Karim Mohsen: “Defense, Marine and Shipbuilding, Oil & Gas, Medical Applications, Smart manufacturing for non-industrial communities”
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Logistics of the future
Priit Kull, owner of Inchworm Machines, represents the Mobile Smart Factory in Estonia. He holds a Master of Science in machine building technology, metal cutting machines and tools.
He started his first engineering company in 1991 and, after the merger with ABF Baltic in 1997, the business served 9 year as a tier 1 supplier for Daimler Chrysler and other car industry OEMs, realizing projects for SLK, LS Mercedes and Bentley Continental GT.
Since 2006 Priit Kull is partner in the consulting company SHG Estonia. The team carried out various technology transfer projects, production relocations, supply chain optimisation and other projects. SHG was obtained by Vestas, a global wind energy company with Danish roots. Priit headed a cost-down redesign program and debugged the technical supply chain problems in many countries. He also set up the supply chain for the largest wind turbine generator assembly line in Colorado US that was, at the time, the largest in the world. He also reorganised the whole purchasing and logistics operations for the nacelle production sites in China.
In 2010 Priit became the owner of Inchworm Machines and realized various engineering projects and process development for casting and machining. Also, participating in different research projects. A most relevant research project for the Mobile Smart Factory is the “Innomill” project aiming to reduce the machining cost of large cast items for wind industry radically by using relatively small portable machine tools and combining them with a decoupled large HiFi coordinate system.
Why do you believe in the success of the Mobile Smart Factory?
Priit Kull: I have witnessed during my lifetime how CNC machine tools changed the way we manufacture things. Additive Manufacturing has a big promise for the future. The promise is to free us from the constraints of what can, or cannot be produced. The future of engineering will look quite different from what we practice today. The designers will no longer be designing structures and shapes to make the functioning machines and then carry out the calculations to estimate if the structures are strong enough. The designers of the future will just compose the machine functions and define the load cases. The actual geometry of the components will be created by the computers using the methods of generative design and topology optimisation.
Likewise, the logistics of the future will be different. There is no reason to maintain stock, or set up long supply chains, if you can produce what you need on demand, on spot. Neither is there a reason for large factories where you cannot match the ever fluctuating demand. The manufacturing will be distributed, and you can always add a module if you need more capacity, or give up one if it is needed somewhere else.
It takes many steps to get there. The Mobile Smart Factory is a small step into this future. It takes many intermediate goals in this transition and only high-value use cases will be served at first. And then it becomes mainstream, and ubiquitous and it has always been like this. The Mobile Smart Factory itself will change and adapt in this process many times.
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Great opportunities for remote locations
TiziriTech is based in Pretoria, South Africa and represents the Mobile Smart Factory across the African continent. Through TiziriTech’s expertise and strategic partnerships, the team is able to offer their clients the best technology for their specific needs. Dr. Hein Möller and Malika Khodja founded Tiziri Advanced Manufacturing technologies.
Dr. Hein Möller, Director, holds a BEng (Metal), MEng (Metal) and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Pretoria. His work experiences include various Senior Researcher, affiliated Assitant Professor and Lecturer positions.
Malika Khodja, Managing Director, completed her studies in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sidi Bel Abbes in Algeria and completed her experimental work at the CSIR in South Africa for her PhD. She is focusing her comprehensive expertise on engineering, consulting and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary technical team. On top of that, she is the Africa Chair for the global organisation “Women in 3D printing”.
Why do you believe in the success of the Mobile Smart Factory in your country?
Dr. Hein Möller: “We see great opportunities for the Mobile Smart Factory in Africa. As an independent system, it allows the operation in remote locations. This fact makes it a viable option for the production of components and spare parts across Africa.”
In which market segments do you see a high potential and why?
Malika Khodja: “As the Mobile Smart Factory is a modular and highly customized system it allows the production of end-use parts on-site and on demand. This has a huge positive impact on system operations as it reduces stand-stills due to missing (spare) parts. Especially systems in remote locations benefit from that and in Africa this includes the industries mining, agriculture, railway, maritime and oil & gas.”
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