It can be overwhelming to explore how technology can advance your company.
NC State University Industry Expansion Solutions can help.
Technology is the driver for advancing manufacturing, whether objectives be time to delivery, quality, training, materials management, labor and certainly cost. Implementing Smart Manufacturing pillars within your organization can be daunting and, without the right help, can lead to frustration and unsatisfactory results.
According to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group, 70% of digital transformations FAIL!
IES’s Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Deployment team can assist your organization with manufacturing process evaluation, analysis and future state realization. Our team uses a layered, phased approach that leverages low-cost, fast-to-implement solutions that are structured to improve manufacturing capability and efficiency. Our objective is to team with you along your transformative journey to improve productivity.
From understanding smart sensing, robotics, vision, software automation, or simply relating your business’s key process parameters and metrics, Industry Expansion Solutions technology experts can help you understand what technology exists to help you bring the right solutions to your operations.
Next Steps Are Simple…
Schedule a meeting for us to visit your facility to meet with you and others. We want to fully understand your current state as we help you build a technology adoption strategy.
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How “We Can Help”…
Industry Expansion Solutions can assist you in your technology journey. We offer several programs and services that can help you get started identifying and solving your specific business needs.
Automation has the potential to displace repetitive, dull and slow tasks with growing efficiencies and lowering costs. Our automation experts will assist your team in identifying these opportunities
- Onsite assessment of current state and process optimization prior to equipment investment
Benefits
- Identify practical transition and level of needs
- Identify ways to improve processes
- Identify cost effective technologies for specific applications
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is not only the newest means of prototyping, it is on the cusp of being competitive with traditional manufacturing methods for production-quality parts. A whole new world of engineering materials and selective performance is opening up. Let our resident expert guide what it can open up for your organization.
- Our product specialist will meet with you onsite to prepare an assessment of your needs
- Help determine ‘good fit’ projects for Additive Manufacturing
- Review and print prototypes at one of our facilities
- Product and material testing
Benefits
- Navigating the cost-benefit decision of contracting out print jobs vs in-house machine implementation
- Discovery of new applications for Additive Manufacturing on your shop floor
- Improvements to your new product lead time and overall costs
- Growth and diversification into new markets
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Whether it be process or product-related, methods, materials and means of producing parts that your customer wants at a certain price point, quality level and delivery time may be a constant challenge for your organization. Our manufacturing experts can work through the changing tide of business and the technologies that lend the greatest impact to your bottom line.
- Assessment of your situation and determine where your goals lie
- Identify new technologies and evaluate their potential to address your unmet needs
- Provide technology options, tapping into our deep university connections, partner and affiliate resources and tech sector experience and evaluate them against your needs
- Provide recommendations and advise you on next steps
Benefits
- You can immediately put the new technology to work
- Acquire or leverage new technologies to help you achieve new market penetration and new product development, automate production, develop new products, improve processes and form new partnerships to accelerate time to market
- Maintain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly shifting market
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Sometimes seeing is believing. Our technology experts are in constant contact with manufacturers and vendors both within and beyond state boundaries. Let IES be your extended arm in identifying your technology of interest and arranging a visit to your facility.
- Meeting with stakeholders to understand everyone’s goals
- Identify new technologies and survey offerings available in the market
- Provide a vendor search and contact discovery
- Provide follow-up services upon request
Contact your Industry Expansion Solutions Regional Manager to get started!
NC State University Industry Expansion Solutions is partnering with the NC Department of Commerce on a federal grant from the Department of Energy to assist small and medium-sized manufacturers with the cost of assessing technology needs, identifying solutions, finding vendors, and training and implementing SMART technology. An example of a qualified project is as simple as installing sensors that can reduce many of your production and energy costs. All you need to do is purchase the equipment technology and we can help offset the non-equipment costs of implementation! More information: ies.ncsu.edu/smarternc
