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📍𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 🌍 If the supply chain is challenging due to choke points, obstructions, distance or cost, one potential solution is to 3D print parts locally instead. 🇳🇴 This is exactly what the Additive Manufacturing (AM) team presented to Norwegian digitalisation minister Karianne Tung when she visited Bergen on 14 April. ✅ AM team head Brede Lærum showed Tung how we’re building up a new supply chain of 3D printed parts with lower cost, lower CO2 emissions, lower lead times and high quality. 🧩 The minister tried the printer herself and went home with some freshly made parts. 🤖 At the Integrated Operations Centre (IOCT) in Bergen the minister got to see the effects of digital operations and industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. ⏱️ The IOCT extracts value from the enormous data streams that come in from all our assets around the clock. Just how many data points are we talking here? 🔢 86 billion. Per day (!) This is the second visit to the IOCT by a Norwegian government minister over the past month. 📊 AI, 3D and digitalisation of operations were the focus of both visits. Find out more about digitalisation in Equinor at the link in the comments ⬇️