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what's funny about contracts is once you sign them,
depending on the length of the contract,
you don't have to sign another contract
while you're still under the provisions of the initial contract.
how many time shards do you people want us to have with each individual company?
Do we need 17 contracts with each company?
No we only need one contract with each company
and we already have a contract with literally a majority of the largest additive manufacturing companies in the world.
The transition from research and development into commercialization.
this same exact Trend happens from company to company as they continue to advance their products, there revenues dip slightly while the transition is occurring, and preparing for commercialization.
As the industry, as well as Sigma Labs, now moves from research and development and prototyping in to commercialization, we are properly prepared and also have contracts in hand, and have been continuing to deliver our most recent and most advanced software to the very companies that we have contracts with.
Look at all the companies who currently have a print rite 3D software installed.
look at all the announcements of every time we came out with a new product we gave it to these same contractual business partners.
This implies that the company's purchasing our software are either locked in contractually or continuously working with Sigma Labs.
If the original product was junk, they would have never signed a contract that forces them to use it for an extended period of time.
since they are continuing to accept the most recent versions, it implies that they are continuing their relationship with Sigma labs and potentially signing new contracts for even longer periods of time.
Production is coming.
Sigma Labs holds contracts with the largest entities in the world for additive Manufacturing.
first to Market within Industrial internet-of-things in process quality Solutions software, and most recently the first to market with the announcement of a closed-loop solution for additive Manufacturing inspection in real time.
GE Additive Launches Manufacturing Partner Network
https://mobile-engineering-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mobile.engineering.com/amp/17304.html
GE Additive’s Customer Experience Centers in Munich and Pittsburgh will continue to support customers with prototyping and low volume production, but will act as a bridge to the MPN for those customers ready to take the next step.
“We know first hand that the transition from prototyping to volume production is possibly the biggest step on any company’s additive journey and that can be daunting,” said Jason Oliver, President and CEO of GE Additive. “The MPN is designed to give companies a range of options to help them progress and continue innovating by connecting them with a choice of trusted additive production partners to give them peace of mind, in a cost-efficient way
We have developed a strategic plan for the industrialization of additive manufacturing. Our participation in GE’s MPN strengthens this plan and will allow us to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in the market.”
Trying looking at Warren Buffett's techniques.
He has great literature on the subject.
Kevin O'Leary also has great literature on his investing principles.
Both are extremely successful investors and entrepreneurs.
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What makes any rational person think the company would suffer a 10 x loss from the current position? with the current cash position, the secure patents, the contracts in hand, the state of the industry, our collaboration with Honeywell to advance our software, our recent closed-loop software announcement, our collaboration with lzn in Germany, our contract with the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, Pratt and Whitney Woodward Siemens Caterpillar don't think the company is worth 5 million dollars? Think it's worth 10 times less than that right now? Okay then wait until it's $0.08 and you buy it. only think that because (x) lost 10 times investment when (x) bought all in, in 2014. look at the most recent information, not past mistakes to make decisions today. Glta Do DD SGLB Enormous losses for shareholders? I thought made money off this stock??? Hmm I still think that anyone who invested in a startup company back in 2013 2014 when the company was valued at over a hundred million dollars with no sales, no business model, no commercialized product available, only a handful of employees, Probably didn't do as much DD as they should have. Based on the action of the stock price, my thought is exactly correct. The company, nor the industry, was ready for the price that it was valued at back when the company first started and even up to just over a year ago. Anyone who went all-in on a company valued at over a hundred million dollars with no assets, no cash, no product, five employees, and only a couple patents, for an industry that wasn't yet at the point of worldwide acceptance, made a terrible investing decision. But what's even worse is to waste hundreds of hours of time, complaining about their poor mistake year after year after year instead of either cutting their losses or solving the problem by making some trades. So for an investor to sit here and just constantly bash the company, wasting time and everyone else's time is absolutely nonsensical. I don't know how it provides value to anyone to sit here and complain about the price bought in at in 2013 or 2014. However, actually look at the information that's available Today, would see that during these last two years of operations, the company has been able to make tremendous strides to continuously sign contracts with the largest players in the additive manufacturing industry, As well as simultaneously securing multiple patents on their very specific Technologies, To the point that the company is the only company in the world within in process quality assurance solution for additive manufacturing, including the most recent development of a closed-loop solution. ilook at the information that's available today, even governing entities such as NIST, is interested in our technology because it is so valuable for the additive manufacturing process. continue to use poor investing decisions of the past to affect and influence your decision making today. look at the company today, with the current cash on hand, and their current valuation of about five million dollars, as well as contracts in hand, secured patents, as well as all of our collaborations and continued development of the most advanced technology in the industry, would see that this valuation and current PPS is a much more fair price than it was in 2014 or even just last year. The probability for this company to rise in value continues to increase, the closer the industry comes to mass production. NIST is still outlining the processes necessary to complete additive manufacturing production. Companies who have designed a multitude of new high-end Aerospace, medical, and defense Parts have done so under the additive Manufacturing engineering capabilities. They have spent billions of dollars just to get this idea of additive manufacturing from the research and development stage to the production stage. Every individual company would have to be insane to, for any reason, decide to throw out all the money they have spent and time they have spent moving towards additive Manufacturing. Sigma Labs has contracts with some of the most prominent additive manufacturing companies in the world not just the United States, in the world. continue to believe that this technology will not play a role in additive manufacturing, you will surely be left in the dust. If a stakeholder has done proper due diligence, they have kept their percentage of their portfolio intact, calculating for the industry as well as the risk of investing in a startup. There's calculations available to be effective in making timely purchases and sales of shares to minimize or even prevent losses.
SEC
I understand, so basically you are saying that there is no management Personnel in the world capable of continuing this company without merging or acquisition into another.
Personally, I believe the technology is so valuable, that if continued alone, the value in the future will far exceed the value of selling at this point, when the technology is currently at the lowest valuation it has ever been.
that being said, I wouldn't be opposed to locking in some sales, and then selling the company when the valuation of the technology is far beyond what it is currently valued at.
However, your original statement said that selling now would be more valuable than continuing the company alone, which isn't true.
American makes still spending capital on Project calls for post-process inspection Technologies.
If they are still willing to fund post process inspections, that sort of tells you where the industry is currently at.
They don't even know the effects of what HIP does to the material qualities of AM parts post process.
at least our software can tell the user exactly what material characteristics will be found in their part..
Interesting....
https://www.americamakes.us/project-call-aapt/
It's the old would you rather take $100 now, or $1, 000 a year from now philosophy....
How bad do you need money?
Those who don't need it,are willing to wait for more money, as long as the time versus money calculation is beneficial.
The value of going it alone is much more valuable to anyone who owns any stake in the company.
in any merger or acquisition scenario, all stakeholders of the company would be giving up a percentage of the company.
Anytime you give up a percentage of the company, you lose value.
near-term, it could increase the value of the company of course. But long-term, the value of the company will be lost the more percentage you give up in any merger or acquisition activities.
This is business 101.
You always want to keep every single percentage of the company, to ensure that if you are capable of continuing the company oh, that you receive all the benefits from the profits you make.
If you are unable to go It Alone, you settle for a merger or acquisition, which unfortunately gives away a percentage of the company in return for a dollar amount or services rendered that could be calculated in the value by their time and expense, which again comes down to a dollar amount.
So, for maximum value, it is in the best interest of any stakeholder to ensure every single percentage of the original company is kept in control of the company.
Anytime any percentage of the company is giving away, it decreases the long-term value of the company, because a percentage of the company no longer belongs to the stakeholders.
It doesn't matter either way.
https://additivemanufacturingtoday.com/allegheny-technologies-incorporated-acquires-addaero-manufacturing
Industry continues to make big $$ moves to secure assets for AM production.
yeah but even if we surpassed the shareholder Equity requirements, now we are below the $1 requirements, so a plan will need to be laid out to show how the company plans to improve the PPS at or above the requirements
but, again, they have 45 days to put out a plan, once it is accepted, which they generally are, another 180 days to comply.
And within that time period, you only need, I believe it's 3 days, to stay above $1, which could easily happen with any news of any sorts.
The plan will be accepted...they always are..
all they have to do is pitch the same exact thing they've been pitching to the investors and it will get approved.
Not to mention they just raised over 2 million dollars which will help.
and you're talking a pretty long run way with 45 days to make a plan and then a hundred eighty days after that.
Delisting is very low concern
Unless literally every company in the industry is lying about mass-producing Aerospace Parts, even though multiple companies including GE have bought companies just to do so, to the tune of 1. 4 billion dollars for GE.
Many companies have publicly announced purchasing upwards of 30-40 printers at a time..
Many companies have announced plans of housing upwards of 200 additive manufacturing machines all producing Parts simultaneously...
Literally every company Sigma Labs has a contract with has at least one, usually multiple additive manufacturing facilities that have just been built.
at this point the machines are probably just finishing up installation and would be to the point where R & D is being completed as well as final process procedures.
this would include deciding what software is there going to be used such as in process quality assurance software.
I use public information ...not theories like some..
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Glta
SGLB
I'm saying a simple fluff piece could fix the delisting issue, which is very low probability anyways.
Regulations give companies plenty of time and extensions.
The value of the company will be shown in one multi-unit sale, which is on the brink of occuring.
NIST and regulations would be nice.
Several multi-billion dollar operations have been using our Technology for years.
All moving into production... literally a entire Industry just starting out.
It's not "about to be delisted" lol.
Companies are granted large periods of time to correct the issues to maintain listing.
Also, this is simply shorters taking advantage of the last 10Q cash, which was low.
Does not account for the recent raising of +2million.
Much longer runway.
Actual news or even a fluff piece could easily push over $1 and listing requirements as it just did with the closed loop announcement.
It's a bit of a game, but the Technology remains the top in real time IPQA IIOT for AM processes.
Worst case scenario yeah, dilution or debt, but the patents are in the name of the Company, so any Shareholders would be protected...
It's in the best interest of the company to not do that.
I'm certain they have a game plan, John Rice in the interview yesterday specifically said the last raising of funds was to "complete commericalization".
A fairly profound statement to throw out there.
Glta
SGLB
KFC hasn't gave up their recipe since inception.
McDonalds hasn't gave up their secret sauce since inception.
These AM companies won't announce how they are printing perfect parts and maintaining much higher yields than everyone else until they sign the contract for multiple machines.
Nobody announces anything before it happens...its IP...IP is very valuable.
Well we already have contracts with them soooo....
Holy guacamole, get out the chips
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/arconic-announces-multiple-aerospace-deals-lockheed-martin-joint-development-agreement-136345/
Behemoths join forces.
$$$
Glta
SGLB
Hmmmm sound familiar? SGLB
https://ewi.org/advancing-product-development-with-ewi-case-studies/
Followed by
https://marketing.ewi.org/acton/attachment/12956/u-0097/0/-/-/-/-/
Followed by
Government/Defense
PROBLEM: Existing commercial additive manufacturing (AM) machines
operate in an “open loop” manner, with little or no real-time monitoring
of the process to ensure quality requirements are consistently met.
As a result, common defects can lead to degradation in part quality,
potentially resulting in scrapped parts, parts that do not meet application
requirements, and added costs.
SOLUTION: EWI was selected by America Makes, the National Additive
Manufacturing Innovation Institute through funding provided by NIST to
design, develop and build an open architecture AM test bed based on
laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) technology. The bed was outfitted with
a variety of advanced sensors to enable the collection of critical in situ
process data during the build.
RESULT: The EWI test bed allows for data-driven evaluation of the build,
ensuring part quality and capability, and reducing scrap. This unique tool
is now used to test a variety of in-process monitoring and inspection
applications for additive manufacturing. EWI regularly publishes and shares
these findings for the benefit of industrial AM users across all sectors.
Show me any company that is mass producing any FDA, FAA or other regulatory body certified part.
show me any governing entity who has defined the additive manufacturing process from beginning to end including in process quality assurance data which has been a identified Gap in the United States version buy ANSI and America makes.... identified, but the process definition of a whole for that and other multiple processes of the entire additive manufacturing platform have not yet been defined. This is why companies are not ready to jump into it because they don't know if they're going to pass the government regulatory requirements.
literally every company is and has been delaying there additive manufacturing mass production processes for these very specific reasons.
Every single Aerospace company has delayed and delayed and delayed their additive manufacturing process.
there are no regulations for additive manufacturing, which means no company will go full force into it if out of nowhere one of these governing agencies are going to decide you know what these parts are good enough we need more data and that's where Sigma Labs comes in.
or since we're already working with NIST all we have to do is wait until they finish the regulations and I'd be willing to bet based on our relationship with them as well as the definition of the gap of in process quality assurance data that Sigma Labs technology will fit that build
we've proven this theory of yours over and over to be wrong again so try to come up with another one that's more intelligent please
Those SEC filings are just a bunch of dots and not actual proof that business was conducted and contractually agreed upon by both parties...I mean there's no way it's required by law...they could just make it up and file whatever they want.
*Hard sarcasm, yet the actual thought process of multiple.....
Sad.
Lol.
Glta
SGLB
How many licenses of a software do you need to test it?
One.
Whoops forgot the link lol
Pratt , GE , Rolls-Royce all behind
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2018/07/12/pratt-whitney-geared-turbofan-united-technologies/
Hmmmmm everybody having problems, and not even related to additive manufactured parts.
Hmmmm
The 4 trillion due in 2019 is held in a majority of the Real Estate, Energy, and Utility industries.
This is why GE has sold many assets and kept aerospace, healthcare, transportation, oil and gas, etc
The sold assets in the soon to be affected markets have much lower profit margins than aerospace and defense, manufacturing, Technology, etc.
Although, there is a potential the market as a whole will take a hit, directly affecting additive manufacturing seems relatively unlikely, including Sigma Labs
Good point.
This is part of the reason that GE has tanked over the past year, there were new accounting practices put in place that showed they had been misappropriating revenues to the tune of billions of $$s per year.
in order to fix this, and eliminate the debt that they would have otherwise been forced to put on their quarterly and yearly reports, they have sold off many of their assets for the cash.
The current companies thriving in this market, are the ones with low debt and or high cash flow. (Google, Amazon, Facebook).(major holdings in my portfolio since 2013, slightly before looking into other ventures like Sigma :) .)
This is why we've seen across the board many companies tightening their belts, or if they are investing, investing in technologies that are guaranteed to give them a very quick return on investment.
Such as simulation software.
When you don't have a lot of time and money, what do you invest in?
Something that saves you a lot of time and money, such as simulation software for your additive manufacturing process.
What else saves you a lot of money?
Installing a software that monitors the build process as it is happening, so you don't have to post process CT scan every single part.
All we need is regulations, or a company that is willing to spend the money by purchasing multiple units, then running a production part, going through the CT scan process to prove that the in process quality assurance data matches the CT scan data.
then, that company would have proof that in-process quality assurance can be used over multiple machines for any build in a production setting.
this is a big ask for any company to do unless they are 100% sure that the software will work.
considering the amount of contracts we have with companies who are very interested in to going into production in the relatively near future, I think this possibility continues to increase.
Considering we just so happened to work with n i s t, who is working on writing the regulations for the additive manufacturing process, which includes in process quality assurance data, the possibility that our technology qualifies for there regulations continues to increase.
Glta
SGLB
It amazes me that people are just discovering this about Sigma and Honeywell now...
Like.... what?
No wonder people are constantly freaking out .
Lol
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SGLB
a large or excessive amount of (something).
"a plethora of committees and subcommittees"
"A plethora of dumb theories"
Show me one example of a major company who is currently running production level quantities of an Additive manufactured part, that is approved by the FDA, FAA, governing body.
Then show me the governing body that has written the requirements for the additive manufacturing process from start to finish including how each part is known to be a quality part.
Show me an Additive manufacturing process that doesn't require in-process quality assurance data to be collected.
Show me any additive manufacturing LPBF machine that prints every part on the build correctly everytime, without any data during or post build required.
That's why it's most efficient to use this type of in process quality assurance software on an industrial internet-of-things platform.
Slow printers don't matter when you have a hundred of them.
GE saw this coming and bought two printer companies.
LBPF machines are still the most accurate and patented, and readily available option for very intricate additive manufactured parts.
Which is what Sigma Labs already has figured out and patented an IIoT solution
And created, and has available for sale.
Which is why the first end-user who decides to outfit their machines with an in process quality assurance software solution,
would more than likely turn to Sigma labs, especially the ones you already have contracts with Sigma labs.
No, I said a plethora of Parts have been designed but not yet run in a production setting.
Reading is hard, I know.
Do DD.
Glta
SGLB
Yeah, in every part design that is announced...
By every company,
Medical, aerospace, DoD
A person who is capable of doing due diligence, can look up
When the company who designed that AM part,
Is going to start production runs,
To create the mechanism, that part will be installed in.
There are a plethora of additive manufacturing start dates
By multiple of Sigma Labs customers,
For a plethora of additive manufactured parts.
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Glta
SGLB
Plenty of money, considering it has all been for R&D thus far.
We started with no commercialized products, just a handful of years ago...
Now we have multiple applications, including the first to market IPQA, IIOT, CLOSED LOOP SOLUTION.
Multiple patents that cover the process used, including the variations Sigma already has in development.
Honeywell has been with us the entire time.
US Navy
USAF
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Boeing
These companies (just a few of the many) can't just be thrown aside.
They all continue to work with us, and purchase the latest software, for a reason.
When they start full AM production, those 30 unit targets can be easily reached for
Each
And
Every
Company
Sigma
Labs
Currently
Has
A
Contract
With.
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Glta
SGLB
Completely made up in your own mind, but go head lol
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SGLB
Maybe Honeywell, who has been working with Sigma just as long,
with the more Advanced version of the software,
and currently continuing to work with Sigma,
has a better idea than GE....
Maybe Honeywell, who has nearly Identical $ of assets as GE,
has a better relationship with Sigma,
such as Donald Godfrey mentioning how great Sigma's software is,
in a public platform.
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Glta
SGLB
Hmmm even GM has identified In-process Monitoring of the build as an "initiative to address the game changers".
Sachdev presents a table of what needs to be addressed and in which stage of the additive manufacturing process pic.twitter.com/fNTos4vlfb
— TCT Magazine (@TheTCTMagazine) July 12, 2018