TRANSFORMATION AUDIT
Assess the level of readiness of your organization to adopt additive manufacturing technologies and define specific applications or operations that add strategic value.
Find out
where additive manufacturing makes sense for your business.
6 – 8 weeks
In recent years, additive manufacturing technologies have played a pivotal role and a key differentiator for companies desiring to lead their industries, advancing their products, simplifying their supply chains, and improving their internal processes. Such disruptors managed to identify the benefits of additive manufacturing in their business before making any uninformed decision.
However, for many organizations, taking the first step into a new technology like additive manufacturing seems like an immense jump. Without having a clear understanding of how the technology will impact and benefit your business, how will you be able to prioritize where to start?
Rather than follow the crowd or make gambling moves, you can find support and a trusting partner in MaterDome. We can guide you through the fog of uncertainty and diagnose the strategic impact 3D printing will have on your business, giving you a clear picture of where and how 3D printing fits within your organization, how it can address your business needs, and allow you to take your first steps as a disruptive, 3D printing led business with certainty.
WHY DO YOU NEED A TRANSFORMATION AUDIT?
How can you know which Additive Manufacturing technologies can add value without sparing time and resources?
What impact will Additive Manufacturing have on your customers? Are your competitors trying to disrupt the market with it?
Is Additive Manufacturing able to solve your business challenges? Is it better to wait for a later time to invest in it?
Which aspects are impacted mostly from Additive Manufacturing? Is the impact direct or through your supply chain?
Outline your journey by knowing your final destination
Reveal the opportunities where Additive Manufacturing can enhance your business.
Making sense of where Additive Manufacturing can create added value in your business is usually challenging. Having an objective and independent approach, we can assess your industry and your business, revealing any possible opportunity and potential internal or external risks for your company.
Examine your company’s ability to integrate additive manufacturing technology.
Despite what you might have heard, additive manufacturing is not a plug-and-play technology, but a business-wide undertaking. By measuring the readiness of your company to adopt additive manufacturing, you must be ready to address corporate, cultural, and competency roadblocks that could sabotage initiatives.
A Strategic Blueprint for Your Additive Manufacturing transformation Journey.
Having the complete picture of where and how additive manufacturing can transform your business, we can provide expert recommendations on incremental steps you should follow. Guide you through any required technology investment, contract manufacturing pilots, additive strategy development, and skills training.
Approach
We use a diagnostic method to discover added value for additive manufacturing.
During our professional adventure, we have learned to operate with a structured approach. We dive deep into understanding your business and shaping our recommendations accordingly. This approach involves reviewing your operating model, value proposition, and strategic direction. Additionally, we assess external factors such as competitors, market dynamics, and industry trends.
After gathering the required insights, paired with our experience and advanced analytical tools, we pinpoint the most valuable 3D printing opportunities for your business. Finally, we deliver an actionable plan that aligns additive investments with your overall strategy and business objectives.
Phase 1
ORGANIZATION REVIEW
We work closely with your personnel to accurately map your internal processes, value chains, products, services and channels so we can accurately pinpoint the appropriate points for using Additive Manufacturing.
> Core business offerings
> Discrete business operations
> Supply chain synthesis
> Customer value chain
Phase 2
Industry specific tends
Analyzing your business landscape, supply chain, and competitors provides additional information on how additive manufacturing is impacting and adopted across your industry. So we can devise a coherent plan of how you can be at the forefront of that disruption.
> Emerging 3d printing trends
> Industry and economic shifts
> Customer trends
> Market Competition
Phase 3
Industry specific tends
Adopting additive manufacturing as a technology solution requires more than hardware. So, our job requires to gather, analyze and interpret the important key factors that show the measurement of your readiness ability to adopt additive manufacturing technologies.
> Business Alignment
> Organizational Flexibility
> Skills Competency
Phase 4
IDENTIFY GEMS OF OPPORTUNITY
By combining the insights of your business with the deep additive expertise that we possess, we are able to discover hidden opportunities for additive manufacturing across operations, supply chain and product lifecycle, then prioritize and present these opportunities by value and feasibility and sustainability.
> Improve product value
> Expand your portfolio
> Enhance new customer experience
> Reduce manufacturing cost
> Shorten your development cycle
Phase 5
Generate a guide to transform
When we have concluded identifying the main opportunities for additive manufacturing in your business, we strategically create the steps required to either proceed with the opportunities or avoid them.
This guide is unique to the outcomes of the audit process, your business objectives, and strategic goals in adopting Additive Manufacturing.
> Technology Investment
> Contract manufacturing pilots
> Development of Strategy
> Competency skills development