CASTOR, a software company that helps manufacturers identify opportunities for additive manufacturing (AM), is now collaborating with Oqton, a software provider that helps manufacturers increase efficiency by intelligently automating production.
As part of the collaboration, CASTOR’s software will be integrated into Oqton’s Manufacturing OS platform. This integration will provide a seamless solution for manufacturing contractors and organizations to evaluate and analyze the business case and technical feasibility of using AM.
As a reminder, CASTOR’s software can analyze thousands of parts and assemblies simultaneously thus automating a previously time-consuming process. It can select the parts that would benefit from AM and recommend the best materials and 3D printing technology, perform geometry analyses, and identify opportunities for weight reduction, and part consolidation.
On another note, Oqton’s Manufacturing OS harnesses artificial intelligence across end-to-end engineering and production workflows. Remember our conversation with Robin Huizig? By relying on a cloud-based platform that can be extendable and customized for every user, the platform enables to ensure quoting and pricing, inspection and identification services, topology optimization and more within the same platform.
Manufacturers that use CASTOR’s software not only have the opportunity to accelerate time to final part but can also reduce mechanical component costs. For example, some CASTOR users reported that they were able to reduce the lead time for a metal additively manufactured part by more than 80% (from eight weeks to nine days) and decrease the cost by 50%.
By integrating their respective software platforms, Oqton and CASTOR have created an end-to-end solution that covers the entire additive manufacturing workflow — from identifying suitable parts to design and printing. The integrated software platforms offer comprehensive cost and lead time estimates and insights into the carbon emissions for each part, enabling manufacturers to make informed decisions and minimize environmental impact. The result is a more efficient and faster identification, preparation, and printing of high-quality parts, which can help manufacturers gain a competitive edge in the industry, a press release states.
In addition to CASTOR, this year also saw the integration of Twikit’s 3D Printing Customization solution into the platform. Oqton’s solutions could be discovered in booth #2435 at RAPID+TCT 2023.
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