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That SCOOPshow - Season 6, Productronica 2021 - Valentin Storz, Nano Dimension

EMS@C-LEVEL · 11 Nov 2021 · 17m

AI in practice: one real use of AI described

What this episode covers

Valentin Storz, General Manager EMAE at Nano Dimension, discusses the company's additive manufacturing electronics (AME) technology and its recent acquisition of SMTec. He highlights the launch of the Dragonfly 4 printer at Productronica 2021 and the integration of AI via DeepCube to optimize yield. Storz explains how AME enables complex 3D structures and reshoring, while the AME Academy aims to educate the industry on designing for this new paradigm.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

ManufacturingDeep Cube (AI group)

Nano Dimension is implementing AI for open-loop control to verify printing quality and plans to use close-loop control to optimize yield and performance across its machines.

“our AI, uh, group, deep cube, which we are planning to implement in all the machines. So we implementing AI for in the beginning open loop control to check if the printing process is good in the future, close loop, control, to optimize the yield and the performance of all our machines.”

Valentin Storz · Hear it at 11:14

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Nano Dimension, SMTec, DeepCube, Orbotech, Hansoldt, Semicon
Products
Dragonfly 4, Fabrica
Tools
Altium, SolidWorks

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