MCADCafe Editorial 
Brad Stropes
As manufacturing industry veteran, Brad Stropes has worked with manufacturers, large and small, throughout North America to help improve fabrication efficiency, productivity, and profitability. He rose through the ranks of a manufacturing software organization before accepting his current role of … More » MCADCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – SecturaSOFTJanuary 18th, 2019 by Brad Stropes
In 2017 and 2018 the biggest innovation I had seen was by far the amount of fiber lasers entering the industry. In years past there was skepticism in our industry that fiber lasers wouldn’t take the place of C02. However, this was proven wrong in these past few years. Because of the speed of these new lasers; loading and unloading is now where sunk operational cost reside. In 2019 and beyond, organizations will begin to utilize more automated load/unload solutions for parts and movement of parts throughout their facility. It will be our job as software engineers to develop intelligent cost factors and solutions to guide such a transition. When laser speed isn’t an issue, the speed of which parts move throughout the organization will be where shops start increasing profitability. I believe the CAD/CAM and intelligent estimating solutions will need to develop intelligent cost calculations and route cost calculations to give clarity to the movement these parts.
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