As the cost of 3-D printers plummets, it may become more efficient for European manufacturers to use them to produce products "on demand" in those distant growth markets, rather than to ship bulky furniture there.
Now more of a mobile "concierge," Fetch will allow Watch owners to order any product, on-demand service or make travel reservations, right from their wrists.
Well, UserTesting aims to change that and has raised $45.5 million in financing from Accel Partners to aggressively grow its business beyond app and website testing to user experiences for almost any product, on-demand.
The Amsterdam-headquartered startup connects those requiring 3D printing with local 3D printers, both through its website that lets you order 3D printing jobs online, including getting a real-time quote, and via an API that enables companies to automate short production runs of products on-demand.
Cloud computing has spurred the creation of a multitude of services that use the cloud to deliver their products on-demand.
The chill-on-demand system is a new technology designed to provide cooled products on demand, thereby avoiding chilled storage.
Consequently, suppliers have got the chance to advance from suppliers, who produce products on demand, to technological experts, who provide technology platforms.
The regionalization procedure provides products on demand for any user-selected location (gauged or ungauged) and does not cause discontinuities at boundaries that would result from delineation of distinct regions.
Having the capability to produce highly tailored, fully dense, potentially optimized products, on demand and next to the point of use makes this emerging and immature technology a game changer in the "Defence Support Service" (DS2) sector.
The transition from traditional manufacturing systems to cloud-based and geographically distributed manufacturing systems represents a possible manufacturing strategy to produce customized products on demand near to the place of consumption or use.
