ADDere Additive Manufacturing
Overview of my accomplishments at ADDere
ADDere Additive Manufacturing is a subsidiary business of Midwest Engineered Systems. As such some of my work at ADDere overlaps my MWES work. I did extensive work on designing and maintaining the company website. I also did a lot of work rewriting several pages and adding content to the site where needed, including photo editing and creating new graphics for the site.
The Company Website
Link: www.addere.com
I led the manual transfer and redesign of ADDere’s website from a Wix.com environment to a self-hosted WordPress environment. As Wix doesn’t provide an export mechanism, the transfer ended up entailing manually copying over 60 pages and 30 blog posts over to WordPress. During this process, the structure of the site and much of the content were rewritten as the new pages were created.
ADDere’s site is set up almost identically to the parent company’s website utilizing WordPress and Elementor as the page builder, with several other popular plugins such as Yoast SEO to augment the site.
Graphic Designs & Renderings
I developed a number of 3D renderings and 2D illustrations from scratch, utilizing Blender, Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.
Pages & Blog Posts That I Wrote
I wrote a number of the site’s pages and blog posts from scratch. Additionally, I had my hand in editing and augmenting virtually all the other pages on the site. As for writing the blog posts, my research would include researching relevant topics by visiting our competitors’ blogs, utilizing ChatGPT and following the website’s 404 logs. Most of the blog posts dated January 2023 onward were written by me.
These are some of the blog posts that I wrote:
- What’s In Store For Industrial Additive Manufacturing In 2024
- The Advantages That Digital Inventories Offer Over Traditional Warehousing In Manufacturing
- How To Integrate ADDere Into Your Existing Production Workflow
- ADDere’s Quality Assurance: Non-Contact Inspections With 3D Scanning
- The Best Practices For Designing & Optimizing Parts For ADDere
- What Can ADDere Do For You
These are some of the pages that I had to write and assemble from scratch:
3D Modelling
Due to the complexity of the original CAD drawings (and NDAs) used in the creation of the parts for ADDere, I had to recreate the models from scratch in Blender. To display them on the website, I utilized the WebGL model-viewer API to display those 3D models in an interactive way to the user. This gives the audience a three-dimensional view of the kinds of parts ADDere can print.
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