Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that was awarded part of the America Makes contract.
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that has been working with GE in a semi-public manner for two years.
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that is part of DARPA
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that is working with Honeywell in beta testing DEFORM
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that is in a public way demonstrating that they are making progress in the development of quality assurance methods.
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that has announced commercialization within a very short time frame.
Yes, there are "countless" companies attempting to develop quality assurance techniques, yet Sigma is THE company in this niche space that has stated that they are not attempting to develo quality assurance for all forms and aspects of additives manufacturing, but rather they are focusing on the high value printing such as aero and medical applications.
Someone else may develop something of value, but at the current time, on the currently available information it appears that Sigma is ahead of the competition and the first to acceptance and commercial application is likely to control an inordinate amount of the market.
As regards the folks who spoke yesterday about time frames, how many of them offered a retrospective view of their predictions of where 3D printing would be, say from one year ago to three years ago? How accurate were they then in terms of where we are now?
