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Imagine it’s your first day at a metal fabricator that has gone paperless and seems well on its way to connecting machines and becoming a truly data-driven shop. His supervisor takes him on a tour of the store, where he will see operators scanning small job tickets placed in batches of parts. After a job is scanned, everything appears on a screen adjacent to the screen: the 3D model, drawings, inspection data, historical job data, notes made by other operators, even detailed work…