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PR3D does things plasmo can not do. Darpa. read up a little more on eostate and pr3d.
I disagree. " The patents are not worth a damn thing, despite what others say, as they have never proven their worth." We'll see. The float is so small and the potential so enormous, with the right pr not even a sale, Sigma could have a pretty good run. Maybe not 20 but nobody really knows right?
Was looking at our Asian distributor, Digi-can's website. Interestingly as some know, they are also distributors for Trumpf and eos. Check it out. Very nice proximity to the complete line of eos machines. I bet pr3d works with all of them. No other metal oems machines are even offered. ??? Do trumpf and eos and sigma partner? glta
https://www.digital-can.com/products/printrite3d-analytic/
Good info video from asme. Proc mon mention at @6:30. These guys should know right? https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/additive-manufacturing-from-prototypes-to-manufacturing-transformation?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=technology-and-society&utm_campaign=wk_093019
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Interesting twitter feed from MTC3 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mtc3&src=recent_search_click
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Important Industry Conference in Munich Germany, MTC, next week. Check out the informative website/agenda.https://www.munichtechconference.com/#!index.php
(lots of "Heads of..." and "Chairman..." "Director of...") I.E., decision/consensus makers
Maybe we will get some info out of one of these sessions.
Block F
15:00
Hardware
Faster, bigger, smarter?
In addition to software and metal powder, hardware is the third core
component for metal-based AM. The various printing techniques and the
interaction of ancillary equipment offer decisive potential for increasing
volumes, part dimensions and quality. The discussion will focus on
a reality check: Where do we stand today in hardware development with
a view to the industrialization of AM?
Speakers:
René Kreissl (Trumpf GmbH&Co. KG, Technical Director R&D AM)
Dr. Hans J. Langer (EOS Group, CEO &Chairman)
Mathias Wolpiansky (DMG Mori AG, Chairman)
Prof. Geoff McFarland (Renishaw plc, Director of Group Technology)
Chris Schuppe (GE Additive, General Manager – Engineering)
Co-Moderation:
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.Wirt.-Ing. Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum
(Head of Chair for Digital Additive Production DAP)
or...
Block H
16:50
Norms & Standards
Getting a common framework
A young technology like AM needs fixed standards and norms for its
industrialization. What initiatives have been taken recently in this regard?
What has been achieved and which norms and standards are still needed
to fully establish AM in industry? This panel clarifies many of these questions
and gives an overview of the status quo.
Speakers:
Dr.-Ing. Christian Seidel (Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting,
Composite and Processing Technology IGCV, Head of AM and Director for
Strategy and Institute Development)
Gregor Reischle (TÜV SÜD Product Services GmbH, Head of Additive
Manufacturing)
Gero Corman (Volkswagen Group, Head of 3D-Printing /Additive
Manufacturing)
Moderation: Dr. Melinda Crane
or...
Block D
13:00
Digital Manufacturing
Becoming part of the digital factory
Since Additive Manufacturing is the first manufacturing process fully
based on digitalization, its further development depends to a large extent
on improvements of integrated and seamless software and digital
systems. This panel discusses the current state and next steps in software
and system design, led by three companies that are shaping the future
of the industry – Siemens, HP and BMW – with their unique perspective on
the digital AM factory of the future as well as digital manufacturing.
Speakers:
Dr. Oliver Trinchera (Kinexon, Founder & CEO)
Dr. Karsten Heuser (Siemens Digital Industries, VPAdditive Manufacturing)
Philipp Jung (HP Inc., SVP and Global Head of Customer Success,
3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing)
Dr.-Ing. Dominik Rietzel (BMW Group, Head of Additive Manufacturing –
Non Metal)
Moderation: Dr. Melinda Crane
https://www.munichtechconference.com/dist/media/project/MTC3_Program.pdf
glta
Ya. That was curious what happened there. But I gotta trust that there is a positive relationship with her/them boeing/morf3d. Sigma's friends with benefits. Seems like the early players all have six-degrees of separation. Some a lot closer. Maybe some inter-marriage even...glta
22:40 she says there is a lot of in-process sensor data to be taken advantage of.
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Video from PW. Part at 45 second seems familiar.
See what #manufacturing looks like where power is born and propulsion is defined.🤩#WeArePW #aviation #aerospace pic.twitter.com/AiFLJEEP28
— Pratt & Whitney (@prattandwhitney) October 3, 2019
RFB you have been accurate in your predictions a lot of times but why push the nasdaq thing? Isn't it like six months away and we've been here done and done that before.
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Dang it!
Lucky guess. 10,000 Tariff Exemption Applications vs. 3D Printing
https://www.fabbaloo.com/blog/2019/10/2/10000-tariff-exemption-applications-vs-3d-printing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=fabbaloo
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I hear you viper. What "clear line of sight" means is arguable but i read it like you did. If something is in your clear line of sight...what is the analogous end...
Nice. Thx boss. That link makes it easy. August he bought
Didn't an insider buy a bunch of shares last month? Schwartz?
Just spec but imo there is a great congealing about to happen. Consortiums, OEMs, institutes, gov agencies, military and others have all been working with sglb since the beginning. Yes there has been a lot of unrewarding progress reports but I don't remember any being grossly misleading. The business decisions made by the co should be examined and each investor has to make that judgement. The industry however is about to enter a new realm (imo). Many articles and speakers from industry have spoken of the need for collaboration to move the industry forward. In many ways synonymous, teamwork, kinda means everyone is working together. Perhaps analogous, you don't have the outfielders take the field and play before the infielders are in place. And no one can do anything until the pitcher throws the first pitch. Just waiting for someone to yell play ball. In the end though you need an umpire, to call balls and strikes, fouls and fairs, outs and homeruns and ground rule doubles.
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From Materialise two days ago"...over the years we’ve generated a lot of internal data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help us understand the full production workflow, which we then use to build better algorithms and better technology for the entire market. We call this our ‘internal kitchen,’ and it has proven to be a strong advantage when it comes to designing solutions for Industry 4.0. Notably, all this connectivity and data generation allows for parts to be qualified during production. If something goes wrong, we’re able to figure out exactly where the problem is and intervene – machines can be stopped, saving material, time, and money. But on the flip side, if nothing goes wrong, we also know that everything went well.
Today the real winners are the ones who are daring to jump – the ones who are willing to fully embrace 3D printing technology into their manufacturing environments. The software is mature enough for managers to see the real benefits from productivity and connectivity and we want to be there with you helping to evolve the Industry 4.0 ecosystem."
"Materialise is proud to announce a new partnership with Sigma Labs, Inc. to integrate Streamics with Sigma Labs PrintRite3D® products to improve services for metal-based Additive Manufacturing. Sigma Labs is a developer of advanced, real-time quality inspection systems for metal-based 3D Printing, working primarily with the North American aerospace industry. Growth in the area of high-performance, metal-based parts is currently limited by quality, geometry and productivity. This new agreement aims to improve these areas by capitalizing upon Streamics’ ability to optimize manufacturing efficiency and integrate costly post-production quality inspection stages into the initial manufacture.
Karel Brans, Strategic Partnership Manager of Materialise, notes, “With Streamics automation and control system, the platform supports the workflow in an AM environment, automating several steps along the way and assuring quality and traceability. Linking the Sigma Labs PrintRite3D® product to our software platform enables our mutual users to benefit from this valuable technology from within their trusted Materialise environment.”
Materialise and Sigma Labs, Inc. hope that this partnership will encourage users in the broader AM market to discover the advantages of metal-based 3D Printing and help them achieve their in-process quality inspection needs more quickly, reliably and affordably. We are pleased to work with Sigma Labs to help bring this quality inspection software technology to market"
https://www.materialise.com/en/blog/future-industry-40?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=CORP-E-Blog-FutureIndustry40
https://www.materialise.com/en/press-releases/materialise-joins-a-new-cooperation-agreement-sigma-labs-inc
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White paper on quality assurance plan for am medical parts. In-process monitoring cited throughout but in this plan a part needs to pass 18 "gates" before use. Seems sglb tech might have a roll in gates 8 and 9. Seems timely with sigs release of recent medical part study. glta
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/19/3110
Damn the torpedoes... tom Petty
I remember RR! I saw this movie where a guy was sailing around the world or to bali or somewhere and he ran into a cargo container and it punctured his sailboat. He was calm, did everything right, by the book, and still at the end of the movie he had no more options and just accepted his fate. And do you know what happened? ...he survived. go sglb glta
Multi-laser monitoring update from Trumpf. "Preview: Melt Pool Monitoring - monitoring the weld pool
In addition to Powder Bed Monitoring, in future, the TruPrint 5000 machine will come with Melt Pool Monitoring, so that you can supervise the TruPrint machine's LMF process even more efficiently, and evaluate the quality of the components in the most optimum way. Melt Pool Monitoring uses sensors to monitor the weld pool of the laser metal fusion process. Benefit from a detailed quality check and documentation, layer-by-layer. In this way, you can detect any process deviations at an early stage – even in series production – and visualize the critical areas of a component, if necessary. These key figures can be compared automatically with the referenced build job, in order to monitor the stability of the process. Furthermore, when using several lasers at once, you can oversee all of the weld pools in parallel." https://www.trumpf.com/en_SG/products/services/services-machines-systems-and-laser/monitoring-analysis/monitoring-truprint/
Hmmmm...hadn't thought of that. Autodesk says...While many machines benefit from in-process verification, this is a must for hybrid machines. Because hybrids print the forms that must be machined, they must complete multiple operation steps in sequence—
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https://advancedmanufacturing.org/hybrid-additive-subtractive-tech-changing-the-face-of-design-and-manufacturing/
Thx ss. Here is a recent nasa pres w a focus on in-situ monitoring as well. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190030383.pdf
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Another important reference?
In-situ monitoring
A process called in-situ monitoring is now built in to many high-performance platforms. Originally, it allowed manufacturers to see snapshots of their layers as they were built so they could identify potential issues that may not be visible in the final part. Products like Sigma Labs PrintRite3D ® combine software and hardware for monitoring 3D metal prints as they are built. This is significant if a 3D print is for aerospace or automotive applications, where a small defect could have huge liability. Some 3D printing platforms can even use take in-situ monitoring to the next step by steering corrective actions during the print if the monitored layer was not behaving as predicted. This reduces scrap and increases part quality.https://www.xometry.com/blog/trends-in-3d-printing-for-2020
glta
https://www.xometry.com/blog/trends-in-3d-printing-for-2020
What do you think SS? Xometry is connected.
"Process signature data is considered the “universal translator.”
https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/senvol-and-nist-new-project-to-establish-am-process-structure-property-relationships/
"The concept of transfer learning will be particularly useful. For example, if you have a data-set combination for one machine that is qualified to produce parts to a spec, what happens when the machine is given a new software update — do you have to requalify it? Or if you decide to make that same part on a new machine, can you transfer some of the parameters directly? With Senvol ML software’s predictive assurance, some of this rework should be unnecessary.
Simkin says that transfer learning also posits, if two machines give you equivalent process signatures (the same in-situ monitoring data), you should achieve the same material properties, and therefore the same final mechanical performance. “You’ll almost certainly use different process parameters for machine X and machine Y,” he notes, “but as long as those two different sets of parameters are yielding equivalent process signatures, that should determine the same performance.” In terms of Senvol ML’s modules 1, 2, 3 and 4 (as above), module 2 data — process signature data — is considered the “universal translator.”
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Sigma Labs' Printrite3D technologies are going to be inside alright. Sigma labs' data will connect a common, easy to use, universal, standard, storable, actionable digital thread/data stream that can be used by engineers across industries to compare contrast and learn from. It is already here for AI and Ml to self-correct. (imo)Check out Senvol.
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So Siemens better get on it."... we aim for right first-time manufacture."
https://3dadept.com/the-importance-of-digitalization-for-the-additive-manufacturing-industry/
thx ss
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https://www.farinia.com/additive-manufacturing/industrial-3d/can-additive-manufacturing-save-the-aerospace-sector
"One of the most promising developments in metal ALM production systems concerns the real-time and closed-loop in-process quality control. In powder-bed ALM processes, the material is elaborated in parallel, as the part is shaped.
Monitoring the system settings and process parameters during the ongoing manufacturing permits to regulate and optimize conditions. Mechanical properties in metal additive layer manufacturing are all about metallurgy. In-process quality assurance and control will ensure the repeatability of parts with high material quality and consistent mechanical properties, which is essential for aerospace industry.
In-process inspection of the material health and dimensional accuracy will surely unlock the power of ALM technology for serial aerospace production as qualification and consistency variation are now the main concerns. Moreover, it will ultimately decrease unit costs of ALM components by reducing costs associated with quality control.
Spartacus3D understands in what extend ALM is a natural fit for Aerospace manufacturing, even though it still has space for improvement before it can unleash its full potential for this exacting industry."
https://engineering.unl.edu/lamps/additive-manufacturing/
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Weekend reading for the hardcore dot connectors.
https://www.materialise.com/en/blog/how-materialise-software-solutions-helped-to-create-worlds-largest-jet-engine
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190002104.pdf
https://www.cesmii.org/smart-aerospace-additive-manufacturing
https://www.materialise.com/en/software/inspector
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New article, Boeing, Morf3d, Sigma labs working together. glta
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/boeing-horizonx-ventures-provides-further-funding-for-morf3d-metal-additive-manufacturing-161070/
Tru dat. THERE ARE MORE PRIVATELY-FUNDED AM COMPANIES
When it comes to sheer numbers, it’s not necessarily a question of the larger, public companies leading the way.
A defining feature of the AM industry is the number of privately-funded or venture-backed startups that are populating the landscape. This landscape shows that 74% of the companies fall into this category, while 26% are public companies.
Admittedly, most of the public companies are either established industry players like 3D Systems, Materialise and Stratasys, or well-established chemical or engineering corporations like DSM and Siemens. However, we also see some newer players becoming public, including hardware manufacturers, Nano Dimension and Titomic, and Sigma Labs"
https://amfg.ai/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-Additive-Manufacturing-Landscape-2019_Whitepaper.pdf
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Maybe tedj or... someone who knows the technicals better could explain it but from what i've read is that Sigma has preferred shares or super shares that can be exercised to discourage/prevent a hostile takeover. Friendlies are still a possible probable though. :) glta
Seems in-situ monitoring has become an important topic in academia. http://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/SFF2019%20Final%20Program-web%201.pdf
Thanks for the recent posts silver
glta
Participant list for AM Berlin Conf 2020 Check out all of the US companies.
Especially our competition. https://www.additivemanufacturingforum.com/companies
glta
Whole new paradigm coming...connect the dots
https://www.ge.com/research/newsroom/behind-breakthrough-getting-push-print-additive-manufacturing
https://3dprint.com/249162/interview-with-senvols-annie-wang-on-data-for-3d-printing/
https://acamm.llnl.gov/
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/u-s-navy-awards-ge-9-million-metal-3d-printing-digital-twin-133037/
https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018/03/29/mbe-summit-2018_program.pdf
https://acamm.llnl.gov/models/intelligent-feed-forward
https://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/NX-Design-Blog/Announcement-Introducing-Value-Based-Licensing/ba-p/599525?sf106868906=1
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So the MMs don't want the pps to rise?