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The elemental and essential fact: All we need is ONE (1) contracted sale of our "product" to a 3D manufacturer (any.)
All else is just window dressing. Just a matter of time.
Yep.
Geesh, it's easy simple.
All this endless RS and up-listing banter. UGH.
If you sell it . . . they will come! SGLB must perform and offer products that industry needs to profit.
Sales, innovation, and bottom-line profit for the buyer trump all. Demonstrate that, and all is well.
Orbiting at failsafe!
Closer. Yep.
Good. Rest easy. Gonna happen.
Backing out for a daysail in SD bay by the US Navy.
Whoa. Not a cheerleader.
Tesla was a clear genius, and so right. Sadly, he did not prevail.
SGLB must demonstrate to the "established players" their ability, capability, technology, lead, utility, and superiority. All "they" care about (truly.)
I think SGLB "CLEARLY" does all of the above . . . and will. My opinion.
PS:
This is far, far more than GE fuel nozzles! It (SGLB) is nothing short of a revolution in "printed" manufacturing.
Let's just say that I have been involved in large engineering projects and contracts before (aerospace and DoD.)
As a SINGLE example, consider GE: they have a multi-billion dollar contracted customer set that expect delivery of product(s) on a contracted timeline (these customers are also multi-billion dollar entities.)
SGLB has products and techniques that are "game changing" (i.e., help to profitably meet these timelines.) However, GE contracting will still require SGLB to be viable, capable, adaptive, and financially solvent. Common sense contracting (at this dollar scale.)
No worries from here on beautiful San Diego Bay. The funding mechanism recently announced by SGLB is, as my kids would say, "way cool." So my advice and opinion is to acquire SGLB at these levels and beyond.
No large manufacturing "entity" (GE, Honeywell, P&W, RR, Boeing, EOS, Materialise, Rocketdyne, etc.) would ever sign a "vital component" supply contract with a firm that would be deemed incapable of rapid capital raises to meet timelines.
Just my experience and a hint.
Greetings from an undisclosed marina in San Diego harbor!
We are just starting a revolution in 3D manufacturing!
Hello folks? Time-lines should be extended. A year ROCKS for me!!
I, for one, love the feast.
Geesh! What an opportunity to scoop shares at this level.
SGLB: In the AM cat bird's seat!
No worries here.
"For the 1st time, every voxel (parameter) of the build can be collected." That's huge in, and of, itself. Revolutionary and a very good thing.
Tremendous amounts of weld pool, machine data, and thermal data are collected. From there, what adjustments are most critical in feedback looping to the part. Our software and database people will model to desired specifications and therefore anticipate the corrections required to achieve in-process monitoring of the build to spec.
Again, no worries at all here.
Morris: In regard process monitoring; in process quality assurance is the "Holy Grail." (actually used the term Holy Grail.)
Yes . . . $60 with a "B." Huge for Boeing. Great for GE. Terrific for SGLB.
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The Boeing Company Continues Streak of Massive Order Announcements
As the Farnborough International Airshow entered its third day, Boeing (NYSE: BA ) continued its impressive stream of order announcements and confirmations today.
(article details here)
The Farnborough Airshow has been an eventful three days for Boeing, as its finalization of previous orders as well as the announcement for new ones -- and the possibility of additional orders -- now stands at a total of more than $60 billion (at list prices) following announcements Monday and Tuesday.
www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07/16/the-boeing-company-continues-streak-of-massive-ord.aspx
Well said!
The concept physics and the resulting engineering applications behind SGLB has been hashed out for many years at Los Alamos. Not something that is easily recreated from scratch.
My advice and opinion only: read the revised patent filing. Very technical. However, the take away is this: He who can control the characteristics and thermal properties of the weld pool (I.e., where it all happens and goes down) AND can adjust the weld pool in real - time to maintain the weld specifications . . . WINS!!! (IPQA)
No runs, no drips, no errors (to coin a phrase.) Whether welding with an electric arc, with gas, with a laser, or electron beam. The metal powder and energy meet at the weld pool. Control AND instantaneously adjust the myriad of machine inputs to that thermal spot . . . Voila!
I have no worries about SGLB's future.
Congratulations!
By no means an expert here. Just my take.
However, it is clear that this fellow is very skilled and has expertise working with high energy, high speed laser driven experiments (with metal as the substrate.) Those "experiments," and very similar conditions exist within the AM environment. For example, when a laser is used to fuse a metal powder into a LEAP nozzle.
Diagnostics that analyze the thermal dynamics & size of the weld pool, differential current, and pulse characteristics are critical to in-process quality assurance in the AM metal environment.
Additionally, this fellow can "code" software (allowing for the capture of huge data streams that may flow from the above processes to a QA database.)
There is much more to this fellow's resume. But, here is a snippet:
" . . . I have led the effort to develop a diagnostic for measuring electron currents produced by a metal target driven by a terawatt laser pulse."
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David Clark
Senior Electrical Engineer at Sigma Labs, Inc.
Santa Fe, New Mexico Area Research
Previous
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Education
University of New Mexico
SUMMARY:
I am an electrical engineer with over twenty years of experience in research and development. My specialty is fast electromagnetic pulse propagation. My passion is to apply my skills in a team or individual environment to solve novel problems. I am currently the lead EE for a team that designs and builds physics diagnostics for high speed and high energy laser driven experiments. I supervise an electrical engineer and two technicians to deliver multimillion dollar projects. Most recently, I have led the effort to develop a diagnostic for measuring electron currents produced by a metal target driven by a terawatt laser pulse. I am the lead or coauthor on over a dozen papers describing these instruments and a paper on the unprecedented current measurement is forthcoming.
I hold two US patents in electromagnetic design for remote sensing and data telemetry. I am proficient at numerical modeling and write custom code in Python, Matlab or other high level languages. I use EAGLE for schematic capture and PCB design including custom PCB transmission line design. Designing for manufacturability is one of my top priorities.
I am currently building a Python software package to make RF voice and data network design easy and accessible by wrapping the SPLAT! RF propagation modeling software in a GUI. I have also built wide area high speed data networks using Ubiquiti data radios which can act as stand alone networks or be interfaced to the Internet for world wide data communication from remote field locations. To complement the RF communication network design, I am also proficient in computer network design and implementation.
I also have a background in emergency management and response. From 2003 until 2011 I was an Incident Commander for New Mexico State Police Search and Rescue. I was called on to be in command of over 30 SAR missions. My responsibilities as Incident Commander were the safety of the search subject and responders and planning and execution of the mission.
Sigma Labs, Inc.
Senior Electrical Engineer
Sigma Labs, Inc.
June 2014 – Present (2 months)|Santa Fe, New Mexico Area
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lead Electrical Engineer, Diagnostic Systems Engineering Team, Plasma Physics Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2009 – June 2014 (5 years)|Los Alamos, NM
Lead the electrical engineering section of the Diagnostic Systems Engineering (DSE) team from technical and management perspectives.
- Responsible for electrical design of fast gated microchannel plate based Inertial Confinement Fusion diagnostics deployed nationally and internationally at large laser facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, CA; the Omega laser in Rochester, NY; and the Orion laser in the United Kingdom.
- Collaborate with senior scientists to design high sensitivity instruments for unprecedented laser driven plasma physics measurements in high electromagnetic noise environments.
- Calibrate and characterize plasma physics diagnostics using large laser user facilities such as the Trident laser at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Perform sub 50 picosecond timing calibrations using high bandwidth state-of-the-art oscilloscopes, digitizers, network analyzers and pulsers from Tektronix, LeCroy, Agilent, Acqiris, and others.
- Perform microchannel plate image intensifier (MCPii) and scientific CCD sensitivity and noise calibrations using image processing techniques primarily in IDL.
- Create schematics and PCBs using Cadsoft EAGLE.
- Evaluate circuit performance and characteristics using SPICE
- Interact with mechanical engineers and designers to provide electronic and electrical component mechanical information for modeling in SolidWorks.
- Create and maintain documentation for complex products using MS Word, LaTeX and other tools.
Supervise an electrical engineer and two technicians. Perform resource allocation, scheduling, and budget management for team members. Employ MS Project, MS Excel and other tools to effectively manage resource tasking and budgets. Write performance appraisals.
- Provide technical and leadership mentoring for junior staff.
- Contribute to the management of multimillion dollar project budgets including working with other staff members on writing proposals and other fund raising.
As am I. Very content with this accumulation phase. Very content.
Just crazy to see 3-4-5-6-7 dollars difference on a 10K bid-ask spread.
Errr . . . Just "now" the BID = .1491 ASK = .1495
Have come to the preliminary conclusion that we are 99% flippers . . . either side of the trade.
Certainly, we are trading like it! Even the know-how and power users kibitz over $0.004/share.
With all due respect; raise the flippin' bid (if you are so confident/serious RE: SGLB.)
Just know . . . Bid = .1491 Ask = .1495
Common Man . . .
No worries either way. Respect your posts, etc.
Just curious that the most informed and most assured would fret over $0.004/share on a stock that we are all "confident" will be @ +/- $0.30 - $0.40 by EOY. And who knows after that.
Maybe this why we are where we are. (A nice sentence)
Not particularly smart . . . but it occurs to me that the reason we are sluggish on a PPS basis is:
Given #1: We are ALL "confident" that SGLB is gonna be long-term successful.
Given #2: We are ALL "confident" that SGLB's PPS could exceed expectations (+/- $0.50 by EOY or 1st qtr. 2015.)
Given #3: We are ALL "confident" that SGLB occupies a specialty niche vital to industry (metal 3D conformance.)
And yet, we nickel & dime it to death. (Even those here who know most.) Go figure?
100,000 @ .145 = $14,500
VS.
100,000 @ .1499 = $14,999
Not picking any kind of fight. Just curious.
If today, I can buy a stock @ $.1499 . . . that I am "confident" will be worth $.30 - $.50 cents in a year: what gives with playing the bid game @ .1471?
And I'm in at the ask for a HUGE 2000!
SGLB is gonna be huge!
Correction . . . 126.017 million @ .0002.
Just nice to have a bid!
Correction . . . 123.292 million.
Correction . . . 112.702 million!
Correction . . . 110.302 million @ .0002.
Correction . . . 109.802 million!
Correction . . . 94.282 million.
Correction . . . 88.272 million.
An actual BID @ .0001. 87.27 milly filled @ .0002!
Fall over dead!
Cedric Atkinson and his band of merry men have been trolling and scamming for many years.
Just do some simple DD . . . look up the history of PSRU, STHG, YTRV.
Takes a D**k to know a D**k.
Tried to stop the coming carnage. Do you recall?
Yet, all adults here. And yes, it was a Cedric A scam from the very beginning.
Your "cheerleading" not withstanding.
How's that STHG working out for you guys? I mean 5-acres in Sierra Leone gotta be worth what??
. . . your hard earned cash and your entire "investment" right?
Another coup d'etat for dear ole Cedric and his band of scammers and cronnies.
Tried to warn you all some time ago. But alas, I was just a buzz-killing d**k.
A simple scam . . . PERIOD.
Same old crap.
YTRV and PSRU are run by Cedric Atkinson. Read the BIG news about PSRU and Texas Oil! A shell company with a scam CEO.
Today, its YTRV with a BIG play in Pennsylvania oil. A shell company with with a scam CEO.