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Has anyone heard from those who claimed this company was a sham, didn't have a product, had no future, etc., Etc., This week?
I haven't hear much after the jump to +$2 and the announcement of release of printrite 4.0 with coaxial sensor improvements, machine installation capabilities and multi-machine capabilities....
Weird...
I mean...the people who listened to what was happening behind the scenes before the announcement, knew that this was the next step and prepared.
I'm not sure what they were doing.
Hope they enjoy the taste of their own words.
Glta
Sglb
On the heels of this collaboration for the same APUs and repair
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/boeing-taking-on-honeywell-utx-with-new-joint-venture.html
Which include production of Auxillary Power Units, or APUs...which Sigma worked directly with Honeywell during their contracts together.
Multiple papers on using AM to components of these very specific parts.
SGLB also reported the agreement when it happened.
If you'd like to know about revenues you can look at any of the SEC filings.
http://www.industrysourcing.com/article/trumpf-lightens-manual-workload-3d-printing
Monitoring solutions check the quality after every shift
Industrial mass manufacturing requires automated quality assurance solutions. A flaw such as a tiny furrow or a foreign object in the powder bed will corrupt the printed component. To prevent that, TRUMPF developed several processes to assure the quality of components during printing, one of which is powder bed monitoring. A high-resolution camera in the printer takes a picture of the powder bed after each shift and sends this image to an IT system. It assesses images in real time, detects flaws, and automatically notifies the machine operator. "The images can also serve to analyze faults and sustainably improve the process," says Baur. This IT system also categorizes the fault and provides details to help engineers correct the problem.
At the Formnext fair, TRUMPF experts will also demonstrate how melt pool monitoring tech helps assure quality. The melt pool is a very sensitive part of the process. Even minor fluctuations - for example, in the build chamber's temperature or the powder's composition - can lead to flaws. Diodes in the printer capture the light emitted during the process to monitor the melt pool's quality. The IT system then compares these values with data sourced from a reference component, and graphically displays anomalies such as a cooler or overheated melt pool. The machine operator can see the flaw straightaway and halt the process. This assessment takes place after each coat is applied, as does a similar assessment for powder bed monitoring.
http://www.digital-can.com/about/
Digital-Can Tech (DCT) has over a decade of experience in the Additive Manufacturing (also known as industrial 3D printing) in Taiwan. Aside from being experts in additive manufacturing, DCT are also agent/distributors for EOS Additive Manufacturing Facilities , Trumpf’s Laser Metal Deposition Technology and Sigma Labs PrintRite3D® .
That's pretty standard for these events....go to one...they're very educational and they do go into greater detail than you may think...20 minutes is a decent amount of time to pitch one particular study or experiment
Another Fluff piece from an Official Government regulated website.
A government agency that happens to be in charge of setting the industry standards for the entire United States.
https://www.nist.gov/speech-testimony/additive-manufacturing-and-nist
sglb
glta.
I thought the description within the revenue and potential ramping was interesting.
Lotta references to already signed contracts with big players and potential for OEM integration.
Lotta standard talk.
Interesting to see it on paper by professionals in the field of investing and due diligence.
Very realistic time frames and price targets IMO. Very nice paper.
Glta
Sglb
Sigma Labs Federally Funded Space Industry contract
Aerojet Rocketdyne
concept laser m2 machine
NASA MSFC
Standards
Process
Space Market, satellites and high end parts.
Individual certification
Process certification
Material and part quality assurance
Sigma Labs
Glta.
Totally forgot this happened this Quarter.
Hopefully we hear some terms or an update in November,
Concurrently with Trumpfs new features to be released in November as well.
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/08/29/1558207/0/en/Sigma-Labs-Contracts-With-Federally-Funded-Aerospace-Organization-To-Streamline-3D-Metal-Manufacturing.html
Glta
Sglb
Exactly my point. Thanks for catching up
Getting in bed with an investment firm that makes a profit while also getting potential investors a profit if they are willing to understand the risks of investing?
Sooo dirty
Lmao
Actually, it's Dawson doing the manipulation, to purchase shares from the company for (X) and sell them to investors for (Y) with a forecast above (Y) set at (Z) to still give the new investors a return, while Dawson still makes profit from the original (X) to (Y) transaction.
Its what is done by every investing firm like Dawson.
So many conspiracies lmao.
Lmao you don't see anything wrong with that investing strategy?!?
Investing based on 8K hype instead of the actual numbers?!?
That's why those who understand the value of the company are comfortable owning shares at this level,
And those who still don't understand how to put a valuation on a company after how many years like 431188666, still can't piece together what is going on
What a joke, stop blaming companies and start blaming yourselves for investing so terribly and carelessly.... Unbelievable.
Lol it's so clarifying after so many years that this has finally come out what you people have based your investing on this entire time... Absolutely ridiculousness I'm dead lmao Glta to all those with half a brain. Sglb
LOL THERE IT IS FINALLY.
Admitted you bought on the hype of an 8k without seeing the numbers first.
You literally just said you bought on hype and were disappointed.
That's not investing, that's gambling.
You like watching tickers?
Sweet Jesus man get help.
Glta
Sglb
Based on facts that I cite lol
Your opinion is factless and means nothing because of that reason alone
Exactly as I said lol.
Stop hyping propaganda and fear instead of facts.
Great letter to the "fearsome".
DD eliminates fear.
Do it.
Educate.
Glta
Sglb
Look what Trumpf is doing the same week that Mark is leaving Sigma Labs.
And you know who has unlimited technology personnel?
Companies like Ansys, GE, Honeywell, EOS, Siemens, Trumpf, other tech coes who could easily embed our software
Glta
SGLB
because it makes perfect sense for the chief technology officer to retire while he still owns a significant portion of the company.
as the chief technology officer he would know if the technology didn't work, therefore he would sell his shares and THEN retire
Cola fund still holds a significant portion of the company ...along with his own personal shares
Think
Property of the company, he can't just take them without purchasing them, which the company wouldn't sell.
He is the inventor, not the assignee.
I don't know what age has to do with this?
Maybe Mak cola was smarter with his money.
Maybe John rice wants to work until the day he dies
Maybe Mark wants to spend time with his family or move on to the next opportunity.
he wouldn't still own a significant portion of the company if being the CTO doesn't believe in the technology
.. that would just be plain silly and irresponsible.
Common Sense people come on and think with your brains.
Lmao makes zero sense
Hello people. Mark Cola leaving shows the product is complete.
He owns a significant portion of the company in shares.
Holding the CEO, COO and CTO positions for years while taking the technology from a laboratory setting to full commercialization is very taxing on a person.
Mark is aging and probably ready to retire.
Has enough shares to never need to work again.
Smart man.
Any further advancement of the technology will simply be in the computer coding.
The original algorithms that the software runs on, was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
After Mark Cola was able to prove that these algorithms are effective and in a commercialized product, his job was done. All that's left to do is continue to code the software according to the already designed algorithms.
Owns a significant portion of the company.
No sense in sitting around working everyday when you are old enough to retire and spend time with your family.
Or, move onto the next tech.
Job well done.
Contracts are imminent.
Obviously leaving the company peacefully with faith the company is going to make money...if he wasnt he would have sold all the shares. He still owns a significant portion of the company
Common sense people
Glta
SGLB
Told us he got the laboratory to a commercialized and closed loop capability?
Good job lol. That's what we said too
His job is done.
The software is commercialized and functioning and ready to sell.
You think he failed or something....when in reality, he commercialized an extremely valuable Technology in a very short period of time. He's already moving on to the next thing, or retiring.
All that's left is to sell the product.
Sigma doesn't need to advance the only closed loop solution on the market...
They just need to sell it.
Job done.
Enjoy the profits you won't see
Lol
Glta
SGLB
EOM
One of many things you're not accounting for, and possibly one of the most important variables in this equation, is the Industry of Metal AM in whole.
Absolutely no one in the entire Industry is mass producing any Metal AM LPB-F parts for high end aerospace, medical, gas and power, or any of Sigma Labs target markets.
Most OEMs and end users very RECENTLY (within the last year) started purchasing production numbers of metal AM printers. (More than 5 printers, with R&D already completed for their individual markets, engineers and design capabilities who would have spent years creating viable metal AM parts., etc.)
If Companies just bought a production number of printers, and then had to hire a production number of engineers, machine operators, designers, etc.... all these processes take time.
We have seen continued delays in Sigmas projections and blaming Sigma.
If you look at the Industry as a whole, it has also missed their metal AM targets... remember how much hype GE put on 3d printing fuel nozzles all the way back in 2014???
Now they are still missing deadlines and pushing back projections.
If a company as large and Powerful as GE can't hit their targets for additive manufacturing, I would say it's safe to say that neither can most other multi billion-dollar operations.
Any companies producing parts right now are using very extensive post-process inspections that aren't economically viable.
I've spoken with representatives from Sintavia who specifically operate the post-process inspection machinery and are involved in the process as a whole.
Even them.....whose livelihood depends on these post process Technologies, openly admit that it is not a viable solution for additive Manufacturing.
If post-process inspection isn't a viable solution to inspect as of manufactured parts, then what is?
Sigma Labs has proved time and time again that their technology is capable of inspecting metal additive manufactured Parts as they are being printed is the most accurate technology that directly correlates the in process build parameters with the design intent.
However, as I explained in as you can see through all these companies involved in additive Manufacturing, they have not yet started full production runs, and if they do it is with extensive post-process inspections and they are probably losing money on the entire process.
This is why even within the standards Community, Sigma labs is included and being evaluated.
Sigma Labs technology even if not even used for inspection purposes, is still extremely valuable as described by Moog, where the parameters collected by our software are then capable of being traded from OEM to OEM in Exchange for money
once the parameters are defined, it is necessary for the part to be printed within them. This is what Sigma Labs technology does and actively records.
the technology can prevent a part from going outside of these parameters and alert the machine operator, and as we've seen the future Technologies of closed loop can even fix themselves without even needing to alert the machine operator.
The Technology is extremely advanced and necessary for metal AM.
Don't let the time of the Industry get to you.
Think of the long term game here, if you're here to trade this is a rather boring stock to watch every day.
if you're an investor and unsure of the technology, go out and go see it. I've been to the trade shows I've seen what else is on the market I've talked to CEOs, COOs, engineers, software design personnel and just about everybody you could think of, from many many many many many companies included but not limited to Siemens, 3D Sim, Ansys, additive Industries, desktop metal, Trumpf,EOS, Materialise, Oerlikon, 3D systems, Nano Dimension, Thermwood, SLM, Concept Laser, Arcam (pre and post merger) ...and many more.
None can do what Sigma Labs does....yet they all are attempting to replicate it, or at the very least understand the value of it.
Those with the most money, are able to develop their own strategy in house as we've seen. However, none of them have been able to replicate the software as efficiently as Sigma Labs has already created it.
Those with less money, don't have those capabilities, and we'll eventually purchase what is determined to be the industry standard.
Sigma Labs just so happens to be working with standards entities both in the United States and abroad.
Glta
SGLB
This is what is still being told to the general public by companies like HP, who just entered the metals market in 2016.
They don't own the patents on the technology to Metal AM high end aerospace parts, so they down play the industry and pump their own plastic and their own metal uses.
This is where possessing the knowledge we possess, as shareholders of Sigma Labs, and our knowledge of the Industry from research, puts us years ahead of the competition.
Happy hunting.
Glta
SGLB
https://www.wired.com/story/hps-3d-printers-build-items-of-steel/
Instead of looking where sigma isn't, try looking where sigma IS.
https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/landing-pages/us/additive-manufacturing-symposium/
Trumpf 5000 release in mid November
Check out that AFRL report that was recently released again...
Simpl.
ANSI
AMSC
EWI testbed
NIST
USAF
NAVSEA
NASA
Department of Energy
Government regulations and standards coming soon for the entire industry.
The government is much bigger than any one company.
The company stopped R&D with both private and public sectors.
Now, Sigma Labs moves to commercialization ...with both sectors.
Glta
SGLB
Why would you invest $50, 000 in a company that was extremely overvalued at the time?
You invested $50, 000 in a company that had very little Revenue, very little cash on hand, little assets, a couple patents that weren't even their most valuable Technology, and had a valuation of around 50 to 75 million dollars?
If I recall, the most assets the company has had at any given time was approximately 5million in cash.
You paid a 10X premium on their cash...that's your fault.
sounds to me like the company is not the one to blame, perhaps the investor who didn't do enough to diligence to understand how to properly valuate a company to make a reasonable investment.
Misplaced anger and frustration at your own miscalculation.
It's normal. But you may want to research better investing methods.
Do DD.
Glta
SGLB
You have an odd way at looking at the scenario in hand.
"Would have been good not to dilute"
Yeah...would have been good to be Google....
We can play would have should have all day or we can look at what path the company has taken, and the Industry they participate in....given the reality of actual activity in this industry, sigma is poised for a successful future.
Contracts in hand with huge players, now including DoD, publicly announced.
If you look at the series of events Sigma has taken, it's actually been tremendous progress at very little expense.
Either way spells dilution...but... Only One way allows the company to maintain control....
Good for company, good for shareholders
Win win...
Do DD
Glta
SGLB
They've only restructured when needed.
The outstanding shares surpass 50% of the company...they need to authorize more to maintain control of the company
While they did that, they just so happened to raise multi-millions of dollars while continuing Operations at a minimal expense to the shareholders.
They can raise the outstanding shares anyway....as a shareholder, would you feel more comfortable where the company owns more than 50%? (Because the company wants to make money no matter what)
Or would you rather be a small percentage of a group of people whose votes you can't control, who may not have the best interest of this company...may have interests in a competing company, short sellers, etc...
Bc currently, unless the preferred stock was utilized, a company interested in a takeover could purchase more than 50% of the company....which could potentially put the future of the company, and your investment, at risk.
It shows they expect enough significant news to be able issue additional shares, yet remain over 50% total ownership as the company, to raise money for continued operations and additional contracts.
Although short term pain for investors, the additional monies and ownership ensure the continued success of the company is in the best interest of the company, which in turn, is in the best interest of the shareholders.