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Connected, Intelligent & Automated Workflows for (Additive) Manufacturing
04.08.2021Manufacturing Execution System – or MES – can come across as a rather generic term, but understanding the real meaning and implementing it in a factory is about as important as it gets for any manufacturing operation.
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Oqton announces the first fully automated 3D inspection machine
11.15.2019Oqton's new inspection machine provides a complete automated 3D analysis of the part and highlights any deviation from the original design such as tolerances, planarity, edge accuracy, centricity, surface finish and curvature.
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Oqton raises $40M Series A financing round
01.15.2021Oqton, Inc., a software company specialising in AI-powered solutions for the manufacturing industry, today announces that it has raised over $40M in a Series A financing round, led by Fortino Capital, a leading B2B software investor, by PMV, the regional Flemish investment fund, and by Sandvik, a global engineering group.
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Oqton integrates EOS software for seamless additive manufacturing workflows
11.06.2020Oqton and EOS announce the deep integration of EOS software capabilities into Oqton. This partnership enables an unprecedented tight connection of manufacturing software and hardware.
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The D3D 30 — DEVELOP3D
06.04.2020A round-up of 30 new technologies from around the world that Develop3D firmly believes could give your 2020 product development work a major boost.
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3D Printing Software — DigitalAlloys
05.25.2020Oqton was mentioned as a leading company in an article by Digital Alloys covering different categories of 3D printing software and how they fit together in an AM workflow.
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3D Printing News From Formnext 2019 Graded — DEVELOP3D
12.16.2019Oqton was graded A+ in the list of all major announcements of Formnext 2019.
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Oqton Does It All In Additive Manufacturing — Fabbaloo
12.07.2019Kerry Stevenson from Fabbaloo shares his perspective on Oqton.
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FormNext 2019
11.25.2019Oqton showcased FactoryOS™ to the world for the first time at Form Next 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Microfactories Move to Full Production – IndustryWeek
02.20.2019Four ways manufacturers, big or small, can benefit from technology breakthroughs. Oqton CTO Ben Schrauwen talks about how advances in technology are setting up microfactories to emerge as a new form of contract manufacturer.
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Five Issues Industrial 3D Printing Needs to Solve to be the Future of Factories
02.04.2019For years, industrial 3D printing has been heralded as the 'future of factories' that will 'radically change the world', but it's still in the zone of inflated expectations. Five key challenges impact it's potential to revolutionize manufacturing.
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AI and machine learning 2019 predictions – Dzone
12.19.2018In this Dzone article, Oqton CTO Ben Schrauwen and technology execs from companies like Mulesoft and New Relic share their predictions for the coming year.
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Artificial Intelligence and the coming of the self-designing machine – Ars Technica
12.06.2018'Manufacturing is in the early stages of a state of disruption brought on by technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing.' Oqton CTO Ben Schrauwen lends his perspective to the first day of the Ars UNITE 'virtual conference'.
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Stop thinking AI vs human, think AI with human – CMS Wire
11.14.2018Because of our vision of making AI-driven factories accessible to manufacturers, we often get asked to provide thoughts on what AI means for humans in the manufacturing workplace. In this article, Oqton CTO Ben Schrauwen...
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Overcoming the three big challenges of IIOT data
11.06.2018Manufacturers we speak to say that they’re gathering industrial IoT (IIoT) data from their factories but aren’t necessarily getting the anticipated insights and benefits they expected due to these three challenges.
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Promising Smart Factories for All – Engineering.com
10.31.2018Oqton CEO and co-founder Samir Hanna is featured in this Engineering.com article, talking about the Oqton vision and manufacturing's need for an open, accessible and affordable operating system.
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Samir Hanna on Bringing Intelligence to Manufacturing – ITAP 2018 Main Stage
10.25.2018Oqton co-founder and CEO, Samir Hanna, spoke on the main stage at the Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific (ITAP) conference in Singapore last week on the topic of Bringing Intelligence to Manufacturing.
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Bringing the “vision of autonomous manufacturing to reality” – TCT Magazine
10.18.2018Ben Schrauwen talks with TCT Magazine about how Oqton is addressing autonomous manufacturing and the factory of the future.
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Learning how to be lean: AI as the key to continuous improvement
10.15.2018AI and machine learning are poised to turbocharge lean manufacturing, as their continuously-improving models translate into continuously-improving operations on the factory floor.
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From automation to autonomy: how the new era of robots will revolutionize manufacturing
09.25.2018“Automation” and “autonomy”, though often conflated, are distinct concepts in industrial manufacturing. Autonomy has incredible potential, but in order to achieve it, the robots are going to have to be able to program - and reprogram - themselves.
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Three Takeaways from IMTS 2018
09.18.2018This year's IMTS show was a record-breaker in size and scope, an amazing showcase of manufacturing technology. Here we will share a few of our key impressions.
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Moving toward large-scale production planning in additive manufacturing
09.05.2018Planning and scheduling for additive manufacturing at a factory scale opens up an incredible array of possibilities, but also poses challenges.
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The Three Waves of Innovation that are Changing Manufacturing
08.29.2018The internet, AI, and blockchain. Three waves of technological innovation that are poised to completely transform manufacturing.
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Carl Bass Joins Oqton Board of Directors
08.21.2018We're excited to announce that Carl Bass is joining our board as an independent director of Oqton.
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Why we’re still waiting on Industry 4.0
08.02.2018We’ve been on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for a while, and it’s still not clear when or how it will come to fruition. But we can identify the issues we need to overcome to make the leap...
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ITAP Future of Manufacturing Conference
05.30.2018Oqton CEO and Co-Founder Samir Hanna is scheduled to speak at the Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific - Future of Manufacturing Conference on Oct 16-17, 2018.
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Don’t blame the robots – factory automation is harder than it looks
04.18.2018Elon Musk recently commented that Tesla has suffered from “too many robots,” that factory automation slowed the Model 3’s production, instead of making it faster. We agree it’s hubris to assume...
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‘The fear of AI is exaggerated’ – Trends.be
12.06.2017Trends Magazine interviews Oqton CTO Ben Schrauwen about AI and the founding of Oqton.
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