EOS
EOS CDO Gungor Kara
Gungor Kara, EOS Chief Digital Officer.
EOS is enhancing its additive manufacturing consultancy operations with the appointment of Gungor Kara as Chief Digital Officer (CDO).
In his new role, Kara will lead the company’s digitalisation business and EOS consulting arm, Additive Minds. This branch of EOS consists of a team of engineers, technical consultants and experts in digitalisation techniques, who work together to provide end-to-end support of how best to integrate 3D printing technologies to multinational companies and start-ups alike. That support includes the passing on of knowledge about 3D printing design and processes, application consultations, and the development of digital production.
The driving force behind this team is Kara, who previously occupied the role of Director of Global Application and Consulting at EOS.
“We are very happy that Mr. Kara is now taking on the newly created role of CDO,” commented Dr. Adrian Keppler, EOS CEO, on behalf of the rest of the Corporate Management team. “In recent years, he has successfully built up our consulting unit, Additive Minds, which offers services that are unique to the market and provides active support to companies in building knowledge and implementing 3D printing successfully within an organisation. In this way, our technology is already making fundamental changes to companies.”
EOS was one of the pioneers of 3D printing technology, founded by TCT Hall of Fame inductee, Hans Langer, back in the late 1980s and providing a range of polymer and metals systems to the field since. The company has been with the technology every step of the way, from rapid prototyping tool to a burgeoning set of production processes. For it to keep on that trail, though, it believes wholeheartedly in educating the users.
The result of this belief is the award-winning Additive Minds consultancy branch, which aims to help clients increase their readiness for digital transformation. Here, EOS is keen to push the development of intelligent components, the digitalised production around them, and the smart applications of which will give those components a purpose. Those intelligent components will consist of sensors to enable integrated data generation for highly tailored to customer-specific applications. With digitalised production, the goal is to combine 3D printing and other flexible and adaptable digital production techniques with conventional manufacturing technologies. And that, in theory, can result in smart applications made with intelligent components and a digitalised production, to complete the chain.
“Digital transformation – with industrial 3D printing as one of the central drivers – will fundamentally change entire value chains for companies in the future,” Kara said. “We see ourselves as catalysts and technical consultants for innovative companies. We support them in successfully mastering digital change processes, from digital smart factories for industrial 3D printing all the way to additively manufactured ‘intelligent’ components. Under the keyword ‘3IGITAL’ we are already tapping the next technological dimension for the future: intelligent components – additively produced by a digitalised production cell – for smart applications.”
