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Me too Bubba. We have another 1.5 years to wait.
I hope their ducks are in a row despite my feelings about INSPECT being delayed.
I emailed Mark after the last announcement and asked if INSPECT was delayed. He didn't reply.
My gut feeling is that he replied to me earlier because he thought I was a client and not just some putz investor.
This either goes up or down, there is no other option.
Nah, it's typically like this. It'll take a significant event to move the needle only for it to retrace hours later.
Potential is there though.
I'd suggest your outlook be 1-5 years.
Regards,
Filomena
Ermm, it'll reduce the cash on hand for Q2 but if they have enough money to hire people and do this then it'll all come out in the wash if they're able to realize revenues from it in future quarters.
Think longer term and bigger picture Sally.
I'm in no rush. I think this will show its real value once we uplist, hopefully within the next 1.5 years.
- 6 months for INSPECT launch
- 9 months for DEFORM launch
Good news and hopefully revenues and contracts inbetween.
If it takes off sooner then that's butter.
Somene created a wiki. I like the format and am indifferent about the content.
https://stockwiki.org/index.php/SGLB
He did try to appeal to folks and asked them to update it but there wasn't much of a response.
That being said, you may just be able to update that site since wikis are collaborative tools.
Thank for sprinkling SGLB seeds all over the place.
It's also possible that Mark Cola is a unicorn.
Lets face it folks, we can read this in a lot of different ways. We do this because it helps to support our own positions. And each scenario that people are proposing is feasible, even my unicorn one. The announcement, like several others, leave much to be desired.
A) don't hedge big bets on news like this
B) stay grounded
3) invest money you can afford to lose
As I mentioned yesterday, what is a fact is that the current projection for INSPECT is 6 months and DEFORM is 9. The only vine left to hang on is we can again question if product launch is different than commercialization.
And I quote:
"The timeline for the machine deployment aligns well with our planned launch of PrintRite3D® INSPECTâ„¢ and PrintRite3D® DEFORMâ„¢ over the next 6 to 9 months, respectively"
It didn't say 3 to 9. It said 6. Q3 is 3 months long and it starts in 10 days.
Joanie hs two brothers, Jimmy and Johnny. They're 6 and 10 respectively. How old is Johnny? He's 10.
Am I worried? Nah, Jimmy and Johnny are healthy young lads and their parents are "good people".
tldr;
INSPECT is going to be delayed and that's a fact Jack.
"The timeline for the machine deployment aligns well with our planned launch of PrintRite3D® INSPECTâ„¢ and PrintRite3D® DEFORMâ„¢ over the next 6 to 9 months, respectively. "
DERP! 6-9 months? Lets see, if we connect a dot over here and a dot over there, carry the 2 and voila! End of year for INSPECT commercialization? Wha happan to NLT Q3?
It should be 3-9 months gosh golly!
And how are they doing this with literally no staff? Pick a direction and stick with it! Grrrrrrr.
WARNING WARNING RAMPANT SPECULATION FOLLOWS:
2+ years but emotions do make it tough. I have plans to sell 15% of my shares if it hits a dollar w/o an RS so I can get back my original investment.
If the story is still good after that it may be even longer until I sell. Or maybe I just sell another 15% if it hits $2. Not sure.
I thought about a magic number and that for me is $5 without an RS. With the number of shares I have it'll allow me to pay it forward to 3 people (I'd pay off their mortgages as an example) then I'd pay for my niece's college.
For myself? I'd buy a modest house or condo in the burbs ~250k and a new Jeep ~35k and would continue living below my means. I'd keep working since I make good money and work from home.
The rest I would bank and put a lot of thought on how to invest and grow that money.
One other scenario of course. If it crashes and burns I plan to go down with the ship, errr plane.
Good news is we're entering the 3rd quarter. 3.5 months until the end of it. I'm down quite a bit from my .167 average but I ain't scared. I am pretty confident they'll meet their commercialization goals with INSPECT. I'm just hopeful that revenues come shortly after that.
I am in for years if things stay on track but I wouldn't mind if fast and steady won a race or two.
Thanks but that's not a form, just an image. Who do I submit it to? Where are the rest of the questions? It appears to be incomplete.
Thanks, I don't want to PM a specific one and this answers my question. I wasn't aware there was a generic IH Admin user. i'll just cut and paste the same.
I see 5 stickies but yes I noticed the last one about deletions. I wasn't able to find the option to PM all admins. Despite that the board can be used to discuss the TOU and TOS and that is in part the subject of my post.
So maybe it's 50% relevent?
Who's the head muckity-muck anyway?
Sorry, what does strike one mean Chucky?
We can skip the suspense thing and move straight to strike 3. Save us both a bit of time.
Just let me know where to send my resume.
I asked on duck's behalf. I sent the original email. Thanks to monkeybutt for posting it for me earlier.
He asked who I was then never replied after I answered him. It's out of order because his last reply shows up at the very bottom.
I'm happy with the response and quite happy that the Big Data thing is a new offering and not part of commercialization. It's what I had expected.
If people don't believe the following correspodence is real then I'm not sure what to tell you.
Hope this info is somewhat insightful and/or helpful.
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I'm just an investor Mark. I have several hundred thousand shares. I work for Oracle corporation so the Big Data announcement intrigued me.
I shared this info on the iHub SGLB board and someone suggested this as a followup question so I figured since I kinda had your ear I'd ask.
If you can share with me and the iHub board, great. If it's under wraps and confidential, fine.
Thanks for replying,
Dave
On Jun 13, 2014, at 16:49, Sigma Labs Info <info@sigmalabsinc.com> wrote:
On 6/13/2014 2:44 PM, David wrote:
One more followup question:
Can the current INSPECT and DEFORM products generate that data now? If so where is it stored and how is it consumed?
Thanks,
Dave
On Jun 13, 2014, at 15:55, Sigma Labs Info <info@sigmalabsinc.com> wrote:
On 6/13/2014 12:11 PM, David wrote:
Hi,
Does Inspect and Deform commercialization hinge on this Big Data solution being developed and deployed?
Thanks,
Dave
Hi David,
Thanks for your inquiry.
PrintRite3D INSPECT, PrintRite3D DEFORM and our "Big Data Product" currently under development are all standalone products. They are designed to be modular and as such can be purchased separately or bundled to provide a complete/turn key solution for both the quality assurance/control needs of our customers as well as their looming big data needs once data is generated during the additive manufacturing process.
Hopefully this helps.
Thanks, Mark.
Hi David,
Thanks again for the inquiries.
Kindly remind me exactly who you are. I can't seem to place your name.
Regards, Mark.
I reached out to Mark to see if this most recent SGLB Big Data announcement was part of comercialization. I was worried that this would delay things. Turns out that it's an added feature. To me this is a good thing.
I also asked him a followup to see how data is currently collected and consumed but he didn't answer that.
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On 6/13/2014 12:11 PM, David wrote:
Hi,
Does Inspect and Deform commercialization hinge on this Big Data solution being developed and deployed?
Thanks,
Dave
----------
Hi David,
Thanks for your inquiry.
PrintRite3D INSPECT, PrintRite3D DEFORM and our "Big Data Product" currently under development are all standalone products. They are designed to be modular and as such can be purchased separately or bundled to provide a complete/turn key solution for both the quality assurance/control needs of our customers as well as their looming big data needs once data is generated during the additive manufacturing process.
Hopefully this helps.
Thanks, Mark.
I don't think he's the right guy Sandra. Looking at some of his past posts they are inappropriate! Quite inappropriate!
Thanks Susan.
How do I become an IH Admin? I'm interested in making the world a better place and I believe that starts right here at iHub.
A few things from what I've read and from what I know:
- the size of the company doesn't bother me
- the Oracle Gold Partner thing is "a bit of fluff". They still need to develop this for SAP as well per the announcement. Gold is the 2nd level out of 4. It means they have access to Oracle people and resources that others don't have access to.
- per the announcement each part is going to have terrabytes of data associated with it. Now depending on their retention period of that data and whether it's per part or per batch of 1000, etc it's going to mean a company will potentially need petabytes of storage just for Printrite depending on the specific size requirements. This could be somewhat significant.
- Big Data doesn't automatically mean Cloud. It could be on-site big data machines, servers that are hosted elsewhere (on demand/cloud) or existing servers and storage at the company. Some companies may refuse a Cloud/OnDemand solution due to security concerns whether that be data or network or a combination of both.
- the differentiation between big data and normal data is that big data is "large and unstructured or partially structured data". Normal data is structured (tables/columns/rows). Traditional database tools can't be used against Big Data. In this case the PR3D software knows what to do with it but I guess they need them to also develop a reporting layer. To be performant the hardware should be good (ie Exalytics) but that can be costly and take time to implement. If I were to do this, I'd really push for an on demand/cloud solution. More controls and standards. Legacy hardware, software, networks, etc can be problematic.
- i assume the need for this is only for analytics / historical analysis and it's not required for the IPQA part. However if the part is printed right the first time every time then the data is going to tell them everything's fine. I'm being sarcastic here. Analytics and historical analysis are still useful.
- I would hope that this software/plugin/integration isn't required for PR3D commercialization. Why wasn't this done earlier? How long will it take to develop? Implement? Incorporate? Large companies will typically take their time. If it is required for commercialization then it could delay things. It'll take longer to develop because they mentioned both Oracle and SAP solutions. If they go solely with an OnDemand/Cloud solution then why not just develop an Oracle solution?
Source: I have 19.5 years at Oracle and counting. Certainly in a different capacity but I'm quite familiar with Cloud and OnDemand. I'm not that familiar with big data but I know what big data is. I currentlly work with several OLTP databases and applications which provide data to a large OLAP/DW database. All of the data I deal with is structured.
Hope this insight helps and apologies for not being overly positive here and a lot of this may be moot if it's just an additional offering to come after commercialization. Still long.
I think in mohsin's case it's an ESL situation and he's just trying to contribute. We can all read and make our own decisions.
No need to crucify the kid.
And maybe this one?:
Quality Control Measures Critical to the Adoption of Sustainable Additive Manufacturing Component Production John D. Hunter
LPW Technology Ltd
No mention of our precious Sigma.
http://rapid.sme.org/2014/CUSTOM/Uploads/glance.pdf
Automated Metrology for Quality Control
Rohit Khanna 3D INFOTECH
???
30% Sally:
http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=SGLB#.U5fPdtq9KSM
I guess that's high for a relatively high volume day.
You think they don't know this already? C'mon. If they plan to buy them out then they're going to know exactly what they're doing and what they're up against. And if this is planned, hopefully they pay a premium for them.
Talks of buyouts, reverse splits and where the stock will be in x amount of time only results in rampant speculation.
I think it's time to see my toes. I need to go on a diet.
So integration with Materialise is confirmed NLT Q3 2014 and that defines commercialization? Would be great if that were true but that's a bit murky to me.
Time will tell and I think we can all agree that your guess is as good as anybody else's.
Emotions are one hell of a drug.
I'm gonna buy back in once it hits .03.
https://twitter.com/3DFool/status/465802485836152832
I asked him and someone else asked him the same thing after I did. He replied with the same.
I was just putting feelers out there. I gave my reasons for it in the other post.
I asked him in hopes it would pique his interest and the off-chance that he did hear about them since he interviewed Christine from GE.
A nod from MF would've been cool but it just seemed like a canned response and the stigma associated with pennies.
NLT Q3 means July 1st - September 30th. Any of those days.
Will it move the needle? Based on previous events, I doubt it. It'll be a milestone for us boys and girls however.
We need contracts, revenues and an uplist. Any day for me is in 2016 unless something significant happens.
They only raised 327 million. I'd hope if SGLB got bought out that they'g go for a bil or two. 327 mil would garner us ~.50. It's good but it's not GRRRRRREAT!
That Tony the Tiger impression was spot on, wasn't it?
PDF showing the article in the June issue of the Manufacturing Engineering magazine:
http://www.sme.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/ME_Magazine/2014/June_2014/June%202014%20f3%20Additive.pdf
Materialise has an Ad in it.
Goooooooo Sigma partners! Goooooo Sigma tooooo!
That's only a 1.2 billion dollar valuation without the need for an RS. Lets see how we do with sales and contracts once this baby takes off.
1.5 years may be feasible. I need to find my time machine.
I don't think reposting stuff is a bad thing. It brings relevant things up that others may not have seen, may have forgotten about or may want to reread.
I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that.
I hope you don't have a pinched nerve, those can be a bitch.
If you're bedridden, checkout Reddit (iAlien) is the app I use on my phone/tablet. It's a great timewaster and they have stock boards there as well including a small SGLB one.
I do remember the misspelled thing from a while ago. As far as searching on specific boards, I'm not sure.
Good luck with your back.
If you want to get a response, might I suggest replying to his last post? It may show up as a notification on his phone/tablet/whatever.
That's awesome McDuffy. I care enough to reply. You're welcome.
Especially when one of our heroes sold some:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102637226
"To be honest" is one of those phrases that should cause one to pause. What's the alternative? "To be dishonest"?