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A Senior VP at GE Digital explains it this way. (mentions a lot of OUR partners) "As I mentioned above, practically every company purchases equipment from multiple vendors to maintain healthy competition and push those vendors for the best capabilities at the best price. In the industrial sector, companies will also diversify their equipment to prevent total system failure. For example, utilities will source hardware from multiple vendors so that if there is a design fault within a particular equipment model, that failure doesn’t take the entire network down.
GE Digital serves thousands of industrial companies and they need our software to work across heterogenous environments. So naturally, we supported our customers and developed Digital Twin templates so that our software works on their equipment, whether manufactured by GE, Siemens, Pratt & Whitney, Caterpillar, or other OEMs.
One of the biggest myths out there is that GE Digital Twin templates are only for GE equipment. To correct that, let me share a few facts on our Digital Twin templates:
59% are OEM Agnostic (e.g., Electric Drive Motor)
24% are for other OEMs’ equipment (e.g., Siemens Combustion Turbine)
17% are for GE equipment (e.g., GE Wind Turbine Generator)
So only 17% of GE Digital’s templates are explicitly for GE equipment – fewer than the number of templates available for other OEM’s equipment.
Additionally, GE Digital has reliability engineering veterans who have worked for decades in mining, O&G, Power, chemicals and other industrial firms and have made the transformation from break-fix and time-based maintenance to predictive maintenance. They help our customers with subject matter expertise and, perhaps more importantly, credibility when undertaking a major change to work process and culture. Of our customers’ assets that this team works with, only 15% represent GE hardware. Our Digital Twin templates are as diverse and robust as even our most complex customers’ assets or systems. glta
https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/elusive-digital-twin?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Organic%20Social&utm_campaign=2019-01-GLOB-DG-HORZ-MULT-Organic_Social_Media-Parent_MULT
An Assistant Secretary for the AF says “In two short years, 3-D printing has spread across the Air Force.Today, we print thousands of spare aircraft parts from metals and polymers, lowering operating cost by tens of millions while getting planes back to the fight faster. The need is severe: For example, three C-5s are grounded, awaiting exhaust ducts because our purchase offer of more than $430,000 for eight units did not entice a single supplier for months… When we finally received a bid, the earliest delivery was 34 weeks.”
“Using a 3-D printer, our Air Force engineers made [a] latrine panel for $300, saving $8,200, compared with the open market prices we once paid through the Defense Logistics Agency,” Roper writes. However, Roper noted that differences from printer to a printer can introduce peculiar defects not found in traditional manufacturing. To secure adequate performance and confidence in how the produced parts were made, thereby addressing craft part integration safety, especially under the stress and strain of flight, 3D metal-printing technology needs to address quality control issues such as the variable occurrence of part “lack of fusion porosity” which in turn creates a potentially lucrative opening for Sigma Labs’ technology. (added nnw)
Granted it is a nnw article but the quote is not. glta
https://www.networknewswire.com/sigma-labs-inc-nasdaq-sglb-technology-critical-to-ensure-performance-safety-of-3d-printed-parts-as-military-need-arises/
I didn't know that. Feel a little ignorant myself now. Does everybody know this? Why repost? glta
A lot of effort to write an analysis but no mention by author of JR's comments on cash flow from last cc? This was addressed. Seems author is either being misleading or uninformed.
Some dots from last month. Short reads. Huge tms conf. this year. glta https://www.nae.edu/221267/Computational-Materials-for-the-Design-and-Qualification-of-Additively-Manufactured-Components
http://senvol.com/ml/
https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/SmallBusiness/Always%20Accountable%20Program%20Info%20Sheet_NOV%202019.pdf?ver=2019-12-11-073221-457
https://www.tms.org/tms2020/downloads/TMS2020_PrelimProgram.pdf
Probably already posted info but interesting still. https://amfg.ai/2019/03/15/quality-assurance-for-metal-3d-printing-solving-3-common-challenges/
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/07/f64/005-Consortia19%20-%20Manufacturing%20Demonstration%20Facility.pdf
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More spec/nist quote than analysis I would argue. But appreciate the benefit of the doubt. What part don't you agree with? Or even consider impossible? No rush, let me know when ss and jackle tell you.
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This sounds like NIST is awarding grants to install pr3d and help begin the next phase of "Manufacturing 4.0...any combination of technologies that, when implemented individually or collectively, enables the operation of digitally-connected, smart manufacturing systems within factories and across manufacturing supply chains. Implementation of these Industry / Manufacturing 4.0 technologies by small U.S. manufacturers should facilitate improved product quality and innovation, improved manufacturing process efficiency, and increased supply chain connectivity...to deploy advanced manufacturing technology assistance services for small U.S. manufacturers relating Industry / Manufacturing 4.0. The technical areas below are examples of cross-cutting, infrastructural technologies that are ready for implementation within manufacturing environments and supply chains, and that represent advanced manufacturing technologies associated with Industry / Manufacturing 4.0 additive manufacturing;
advanced and lightweight materials, including composites and lightweight metals associated with product or process innovations;
cybersecurity; digital manufacturing, including the use of modeling and simulation;robotics, especially relating to flexible automation; and
smart manufacturing, including the use of sensors, data analytics, and different forms of artificial intelligence to optimize processes and products'"
What do you guys think? Sounds a little weak (3 million) as far as funding if goal really want to establish a new manuf. paradigm. Maybe I'm misreading. Though America Makes got 300 mil recently
Perhaps this is the prototype/pilot for actually establishing a working Manufacturing 4.0 which would be epic! imo
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https://www.nist.gov/mep/advanced-manufacturing-technology-services
https://www.machinedesign.com/3d-printing-cad/article/21837611/consortiums-and-tech-hubs-work-together-to-advance-3d-printing
Thanks Sol.
That would be cool. Looking at that article it seems there is some overlap? Can't find much online but seems a lot of known names are working with them. Happy Holidays
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Anybody know anything about velo3d? see link. thx https://www.3dmpmag.com/magazine/article/?/2019/10/15/Automated_Calibration_Optimizes_Multi-Laser_System_Performance glta
https://www.3dmpmag.com/magazine/article/?/2019/10/15/Automated_Calibration_Optimizes_Multi-Laser_System_Performance
What do you think about velo jackle? Are we in there?
thx
For sure (imo). One of ipqa selling points is not only in-situ actionable monitoring but also using sglb software to get the machine calibrated/tuned-up/focused for production much more quickly than the trial and error approach historically used. glta
I was thinking the same thing. Not just materialise though. Almost like the players are trying not to mention IPQA. (DARPA excluded of course) It seems most of challenges facing serial prod for am is in-process/in-situ monitoring and inspection yet no one (except sglb) is trumpeting an industry wide solution. Hopefully the rest of the industry/orchestra is getting seated behind the curtain. Waiting for the curtain to rise and start the concert. glta
Our partner is the backbone. https://www.tctmagazine.com/3d-printing-news/materialise-software-additive-manufacturing-data-sustainability/
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NIST Research about RTM. Engineers can write very long sentences.
"Additionally, the AM Part Qualification project will work closely with standards developing organizations (SDOs), industry/government/academic researchers, and other Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) projects to mutually benefit from knowledge gained, including: the Real-time Monitoring of AM project as their high degree of control over the process will help isolate process variables for developing process-structure relationships and identification of defect morphology, defect generation, and process-structure relationships will provide signatures to monitor for in situ; the AM Machine and Process Qualification project as identification of relationships between process variables and resultant part quality will help generate tolerances for machine performance monitoring and qualification; the AM Data Integration and Management project as data fusion will be required to merge multiple sources of measurement for richer information about part quality than the individual sources alone; and the Design and Data Analytics project as concepts learned through the AM Part Qualification project will help define challenges for product definition, GD&T, and design rules, and will benefit from investigations of data analytics, AI, and machine learning for AM." glta
https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/additive-manufacturing-part-qualification
Anybody know how many partners Materialise has? (rhetorical)They have more big name partners in AM than anybody else. They are the shared plm of choice for all oems including eos Out of all of the partners and relationships that the great mtls maintains, it was only sigma that was asked to accompany at formnext. Kinda a cinderella story. glta
$792,000,000 glta eom
"U.S. Army better get religion on 3d printing" article. glta
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/reagan-defense-forum/2019/12/07/why-the-army-must-get-religion-on-3d-printing/
Seems like this would be an informative conference. Anybody know any of the sponsors? glta militaryam.dsigroup.org/
What time is it? Warning just extemporaneous spec, but I think a lot of potential investors will like the margins available with this type of company as well. By that I mean that software can have, from what I've read, the highest of profit margins ...except pharma maybe. Plus as J said, the data (histories, thermal maps, and what not) has a high value as well combined with the install on oems with reoccurring licenses for said oems and then possible pass through fees as a third-party gate keeper for the blockchain or per=click charges for other saas services plus other data/app/licensing that I haven't thought of would seemingly make sglb an attractive investment if you want high possible profit margins. glta
It's in the press release for the press release. https://classifieds.usatoday.com/press/networknewsbreaks-sigma-labs-inc-s-nasdaq-sglb-3-d-printing-technology-being-tested-in-tandem-with-blockchain-to-speed-replacement-of-aircraft-parts/ (I didn't write it)
Not sure.
Contour specs. Might have been posted but seems new. Too many TMs. https://www.digital-can.com/products/printrite3d-contourtm/
I don't know but it seems there must be some obvious reason they would tweet about those two processes/articles? Why tweet if pr3d didn't work for those processes is my reasoning. Other articles in periodical (Oil and gas ind stds article) also seem to apply to pr3d as well.
Thx J. Historical week for sure. Did you guys see the sglb tweet re article about fff and fdm? Not sure what was intended but after reading both articles seems those processes are also in need of ipqa? (ok honestly they were both pretty technical so not really sure)
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"Siemens Digital Enterprise" video. Imo...we in there. Funny part at 3:19 as the real problem is revealed. happy friday glta
https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/topic-areas/digital-enterprise.html
Translation?
Thanks Ted. So nice to see the partnerships being displayed in 3d. Clicking on the likes by others shows quite a following of sglb on linkedin.
Nah...
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