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[charlie T colton]

strategic alternatives for DTI

Does anyone think that GE Additive could make good use of DTI? Not for implants but for applications in all industries. This facility has some room to grow, a decent infrastructure, and in-house finishing capabilities. Not just EBM but available for all additive technologies that GE supports.

Powder goes in one door. Complete, finished, ready-to-use parts go out another.

A true "factory of the future". It could be a showcase for less-experienced entrants in additive to see what it really takes to go from end to end for production.


Thoughts?





For reference:

General Electric Company's Management Presents at Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference (Transcript) - Sep. 14, 2017

And we added the GE additive portfolio in 2016. So let me just start with that. Look, I got to be honest with you. We are more bullish about additive today than we were when we started this journey. We closed on our chem and concept laser at the end of last year. We're ahead of plan on internal adoption. We’ve about 80 -- we’ve 80 engineers dedicated to additive tiger teams, which worked with everyone of the businesses to help them solve some of their toughest problems, whether they would be productivity or costs or turn time, and we are just finding that there really isn't a point where there's an epiphany of disruption that occurs when you look at additive and what it can do.



An Epiphany Of Disruption: GE Additive Chief Explains How 3D Printing Will Upend Manufacturing - Nov 13, 2017

Several GE businesses, including Aviation, Oil & Gas, Power and Healthcare, are already benefiting from additive manufacturing. Working closely with engineers at GE Global Research, who built one of the first laser-powered 3D printers in the early 1990s, GE Additive recently opened the Additive Training Center (ATC) near Cincinnati. The 130,000-square-foot facility holds some 30 machines that print metal and as many as 40 machines that print plastic. (GE has a similar facility, called the Center for Additive Technologies Advancement, near Pittsburgh).

Several times a year, the ATC holds a “manufacturing boot camp.” It trains hundreds of engineers, who then fan out across GE to spread the additive gospel. “We pay them to play with the machines,” Ehteshami says. “We give them a real problem and tell them ‘go figure it out and print it.’ ”