Industry 4.0 isn’t anything new for the manufacturing engineers at Glidewell. The Newport, CA-based manufacturer of crowns, bridges and other dental products has been applying the concept since before it had a name.
“We are an extreme high-volume manufacturer, but everything we make is custom—a lot size of one,” says Dave Leeson, vice president of engineering at Glidewell. “We might make 100,000 unique products every week.