Azoth Featured By Ultmaker: Driving The Transformation Of Physical To Digital Inventory With Additive Manufacturing

Azoth has built a new business helping manufacturing customers have machine parts right on time, while saving thousands of dollars.

When engineers get enthusiastic on the topic of additive manufacturing, it can be compelling. Indeed, in the presence of Cody Cochran, Azoth’s general manager, and Ronnie Sherrer, polymers engineering lead at Azoth, you can’t be anything but a fan. Their expertise and energetic approach have been successful in consistently delivering new value propositions to their manufacturing customers through the intelligent application of additive manufacturing and 3D data for end-use parts.

Additive manufacturing and materials have recently evolved to the point where many end-use parts can be produced tool-free and at a lower cost than traditional methods. According to Cochran, it is all about identifying parts in their customers’ inventories that meet the specifications and having a clear business case. Then they are evolved into a digital inventory for immediate, on-demand part production.

“Not all parts are ideal for additive,” said Cochran. “We sort through and find where the complexities are in the supply chain, the overload of inventory, where parts often fail, and build a business case for each one.”

Azoth was formed by the EWIE Group of Companies (EGC) to bring the advantages of additive manufacturing to its customer base. EGC focuses on fulfilling the indirect manufacturing needs of its Fortune 500 customer base across 12 countries, with customers such as John Deere, GM, and Ford. Azoth also focuses on those indirect needs by applying additive manufacturing to machine parts.