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Why Automation Alley Established Project DIAMOnD
Industry 4.0 has something exciting and powerful up its sleeve in 3D Printing; Project DIAMOnD, or Distributed, Independent, Agile Manufacturing on Demand. Automation Alley established DIAMOnD through the 2020 CARES ACT. The funding provided Automation Alley with the ability to accelerate digital transformation among Michigan manufacturers to strengthen supply chains to develop PPE. So, why all the excitement? DisruptED got down to business with several experts involved with the project.
“Project DIAMOnD started as an idea in the middle of one of our darkest times, the pandemic,” said Pavan Muzumdar, COO of Automation Alley. “We came up with this idea that what would you do if you had this opportunity to deploy capital into the small and medium-sized manufacturing space. And we quickly converged to this idea that if you give someone a 3D printer, they will figure out how to use it.” And use it; they have. When the call came from Ukraine in desperate need of tourniquets, Project DIAMOnD’s network was ready to answer the call.
“When we had this crisis happening in Ukraine, that network mobilized, and we just delivered 3,000 tourniquet clips to Ukraine a couple of weeks ago,” Muzumdar said. “So, it is not only something companies are using internally in their organizations, but it’s also something that is saving lives.”
Ravi Venugopal, CEO of Giggso, and Pierre Viaud-Murat, Founder of Qualified3D, helped build the Project DIAMOnD platform. They introduced DIAMOnD to the public at the recent Integrate 2022 exhibition. This show was the first time people outside of a group of 300 companies saw the project. “It’s exciting to show the community aspects of it, the productivity aspects, and the business and production management aspects of it,” Viaud-Murat said.
Cynthia Hutchinson, Vice President of Automation Alley, also in attendance at this year’s Integrate 2022, was excited to talk about the great things going on with digital integration in the manufacturing industry. She said soon; that Project DIAMOnD will expand to companies throughout the entire state of Michigan with long-term expansion for Automation Alley’s international partners.
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Industry 4.0 has something exciting and powerful up its sleeve in 3D Printing; Project DIAMOnD, or Distributed, Independent, Agile Manufacturing on Demand. Automation Alley established DIAMOnD through the 2020 CARES ACT. The funding provided Automation Alley with the ability to accelerate digital transformation among Michigan manufacturers to strengthen supply chains to develop PPE. So, why all the excitement? DisruptED got down to business with several experts involved with the project.
“Project DIAMOnD started as an idea in the middle of one of our darkest times, the pandemic,” said Pavan Muzumdar, COO of Automation Alley. “We came up with this idea that what would you do if you had this opportunity to deploy capital into the small and medium-sized manufacturing space. And we quickly converged to this idea that if you give someone a 3D printer, they will figure out how to use it.” And use it; they have. When the call came from Ukraine in desperate need of tourniquets, Project DIAMOnD’s network was ready to answer the call.
“When we had this crisis happening in Ukraine, that network mobilized, and we just delivered 3,000 tourniquet clips to Ukraine a couple of weeks ago,” Muzumdar said. “So, it is not only something companies are using internally in their organizations, but it’s also something that is saving lives.”
Ravi Venugopal, CEO of Giggso, and Pierre Viaud-Murat, Founder of Qualified3D, helped build the Project DIAMOnD platform. They introduced DIAMOnD to the public at the recent Integrate 2022 exhibition. This show was the first time people outside of a group of 300 companies saw the project. “It’s exciting to show the community aspects of it, the productivity aspects, and the business and production management aspects of it,” Viaud-Murat said.
Cynthia Hutchinson, Vice President of Automation Alley, also in attendance at this year’s Integrate 2022, was excited to talk about the great things going on with digital integration in the manufacturing industry. She said soon; that Project DIAMOnD will expand to companies throughout the entire state of Michigan with long-term expansion for Automation Alley’s international partners.