Digital Manufacturing Platform Provides Constant Order Status
Fictiv features enable designers and supply chain managers to see, communicate, and track progress of work by their manufacturing partners. This gives them complete confidence in quality outcomes, delivery times, and costs.
Posted: October 9, 2020
Fictiv (San Francisco, CA) adds features that deliver visibility, traceability, speed, and quality benefits for customers leveraging its digital manufacturing ecosystem (DME) to order high-tolerance, custom mechanical parts for both prototyping and production needs. In response to evolving customer work-from-home requirements as well as more compressed new product introduction (NPI) timelines, the platform’s transparency initiative brings into focus the otherwise opaque nature of traditional onshore and overseas manufacturing and introduces significant risk mitigation and cost-savings opportunities.
Key features include:
- On-demand production status: detailed production status of all parts within every order, immediately and online
- Virtual inspection photos: inspection photos from manufacturing partner facilities before parts are delivered
- Centralized access to quality documentation: material certifications, certificates of conformance, and inspection documentation available in one place
- Order configuration details: centralized access to 2D and 3D design files, thread specifications, material and process configurations, and invoices for all orders
- Historical DFM: digitally call up previous manufacturability feedback to inform future design cycles
- Reorders: streamlined quoting process to reorder parts and lock in previous pricing
- Shipment tracking: aggregate tracking links from third-party providers to keep all shipments in one secure place.
These features integrate seamlessly into the Fictiv digital thread, a combination of technology and process that enables the manufacture of complex parts 100 times faster and at one-tenth the cost of traditional manufacturing solutions. The data produced from the digital thread helps drive automation through the DME to speed up production and prevent errors.
For example, every part produced receives a minimum of five dimensional inspections, with the resulting data captured digitally for fast and simple validation by Fictiv teams and customers. Customers choose Fictiv for its ability to offer these types of powerful advantages and insights at a superior price, quality, and speed.
