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Nice insight, and we certainly appreciate you folks within the industry providing your knowledge and perspective.
Me likey:
Planned Accomplishments
• Demonstration of DMLS process parameters to fabricate
IN718Plus (Tensile/YS focus)
• Verified and Validated ICME system model
• Process model
• Structure model
• Property model
• Demonstration of IPQA capability
• Probabilistic Based Rapid Qualification Frame Work
• Identification Of Technology Gaps (Lessons Learned)
• Honeywell Expects A Dramatic Reduction Qualification
Timeline & Costs
I noticed and think it is because there is such a boatload of good information to report, they decided to revamp the whole page (wishful thinking).
Could be a good week for Sigma Labs (SGLB)
Speaking at Fabtech this Thursday:
11:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
In-Process Quality Assurance™: A Process Monitoring and NDI Tool
Mark Cola, President, Sigma Labs, Inc
http://s36.a2zinc.net/clients/SME/Fabtech2014/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Calendar.aspx&SessionID=666
10Q should be out by this Friday
Not only getting assistance from DARPA but also from the Santa Fe Business Incubator Program (http://www.sfbi.net/). For the few naysayers that are routinely saying Mark & company are just scientists and not good business men, I would say getting free or low cost aid in commercializing their product and low cost leasing of office/tech space, etc. is good business. Not to mention the added exposure (especially DARPA), that comes with it.
Is it too much to ask for you to quit your current job and start a new career with the government or an approved government contractor, all within the next month?
Appreciate it.
Can this be added to the conference list:
Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC)
Dec. 1-2, 2014
San Antonio, TX
http://dmcmeeting.com/
Sigma Labs’ presentation, “In-Process Quality Assurance™ for 3D Printing,” will be made during a session specifically dedicated to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Open Manufacturing program, designed to address the needs of the Additive Manufacturing industry. The Company’s presentation will include discussions and application examples of its PrintRite3D® suite of products including its INSPECT™ and DEFORM™ software modules, as well as its hardware sensor package known as SENSORPAK™. In addition, the presentation will include a brief introduction to Sigma Labs’ cloud-based software platform being developed to address the emerging issues surrounding “Big Data” and advanced analytics to mine such data for process efficiencies and increased product throughput.
Thanks
Canada Strategic and Lomiko Metals Intersect Multiple Graphite Zones on the La Loutre Property
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/canada-strategic-lomiko-metals-intersect-multiple-graphite-zones-on-la-loutre-property-tsx-venture-cjc-1964254.htm
Canada Strategic and Lomiko Metals Intersect Multiple Graphite Zones on the La Loutre Property
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/canada-strategic-lomiko-metals-intersect-multiple-graphite-zones-on-la-loutre-property-tsx-venture-cjc-1964254.htm
Thanks for the update. So nice to have info. from someone with a first hand perspective.
Anyone able to attend these upcoming conferences:
FABTECH Atlanta, GA November 11-13, 2014
Thursday November 13th
11:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
In-Process Quality Assurance™:
A Process Monitoring and NDI Tool
Mark Cola, President, Sigma Labs, Inc
http://www.fabtechexpo.com/wp-content/uploads/FT14_AdvProgBrochure_WEB.pdf
Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC)
Dec. 1-2, 2014
San Antonio, TX
http://dmcmeeting.com/
Sigma Labs’ presentation, “In-Process Quality Assurance™ for 3D Printing,” will be made during a session specifically dedicated to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Open Manufacturing program, designed to address the needs of the Additive Manufacturing industry. The Company’s presentation will include discussions and application examples of its PrintRite3D® suite of products including its INSPECT™ and DEFORM™ software modules, as well as its hardware sensor package known as SENSORPAK™. In addition, the presentation will include a brief introduction to Sigma Labs’ cloud-based software platform being developed to address the emerging issues surrounding “Big Data” and advanced analytics to mine such data for process efficiencies and increased product throughput.
Yeah, dig up some good info., please.
Yes it is:
Sigma Lab's presenting at Additive/Aerospace tomorrow (11-4-14) in Los Angeles. Description of Sigma's presentation:
Sigma Labs, in the thick of additive manufacturing:
Sigma Labs Wins Phase II DARPA Contract with Honeywell
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=64262325
I'm in Ventura County.
Thanks for posting that. I was trying to find when that conference was. I knew it was coming up soon. Are you there for all 4 days? I was thinking about going (I'm in Socal also) until I saw the cost. Hopefully your work is picking up the tab.
While I have a small position in Lomiko and I hope this is good news, I'm not real impressed with Megahertz Power Systems website: http://www.mhps.co/. Especially that certain sections are still "under construction." Here's more info. on them:
https://gust.com/companies/megahertz_power_systems
Lockstep
October 15, 2014 16:01 ET
Lomiko Metals Inc. Retains Integral Wealth Securities Limited as Market Maker
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 15, 2014) - Lomiko Metals Inc. ("Lomiko") (TSX VENTURE:LMR)(PINKSHEETS:LMRMF)(FRANKFURT:DH8B) is pleased to announce that it has retained Integral Capital Markets, a division of Integral Wealth Securities Limited ("Integral") to provide market-making services in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX.V") policies. Integral will trade shares of the Company on the TSX.V for the purposes of maintaining an orderly market and improving the liquidity of the Company's shares.
Integral will not receive shares or options as compensation. However, Integral and its clients may have or may acquire a direct interest in the securities of the Company. Integral is a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada ("IIROC") and can access all Canadian Stock Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems. The capital and securities required for any trade undertaken by Integral as principal will be provided by Integral.
The Agreement is for an open-ended term of at least six months and may be terminated thereafter on 30 days' notice. Lomiko will pay $ 5,500.00 per month from the date of TSX Venture approval of the market making agreement. This is an arm's-length transaction.
About Lomiko Metals Inc.
Lomiko Metals Inc. is a Canada-based, exploration-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties that contain minerals for the new green economy. On February 12, 2013 Lomiko Metals and Graphene Labs signed a Strategic Alliance to develop new businesses in the nanotechnology field which resulted in the creation and IPO of Graphene 3D Lab.
About Integral Capital Markets
Integral Capital Markets provides financing, strategic advisory, and market making services to emerging companies in three principal sectors: oil + gas, metals + mining and diversified industries. The firm also works closely with institutional and high net worth investors who seek attractive risk adjusted returns through participation in these sectors via new issues or the secondary markets.
October 15, 2014 16:01 ET
Lomiko Metals Inc. Retains Integral Wealth Securities Limited as Market Maker
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 15, 2014) - Lomiko Metals Inc. ("Lomiko") (TSX VENTURE:LMR)(PINKSHEETS:LMRMF)(FRANKFURT:DH8B) is pleased to announce that it has retained Integral Capital Markets, a division of Integral Wealth Securities Limited ("Integral") to provide market-making services in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX.V") policies. Integral will trade shares of the Company on the TSX.V for the purposes of maintaining an orderly market and improving the liquidity of the Company's shares.
Integral will not receive shares or options as compensation. However, Integral and its clients may have or may acquire a direct interest in the securities of the Company. Integral is a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada ("IIROC") and can access all Canadian Stock Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems. The capital and securities required for any trade undertaken by Integral as principal will be provided by Integral.
The Agreement is for an open-ended term of at least six months and may be terminated thereafter on 30 days' notice. Lomiko will pay $ 5,500.00 per month from the date of TSX Venture approval of the market making agreement. This is an arm's-length transaction.
About Lomiko Metals Inc.
Lomiko Metals Inc. is a Canada-based, exploration-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties that contain minerals for the new green economy. On February 12, 2013 Lomiko Metals and Graphene Labs signed a Strategic Alliance to develop new businesses in the nanotechnology field which resulted in the creation and IPO of Graphene 3D Lab.
About Integral Capital Markets
Integral Capital Markets provides financing, strategic advisory, and market making services to emerging companies in three principal sectors: oil + gas, metals + mining and diversified industries. The firm also works closely with institutional and high net worth investors who seek attractive risk adjusted returns through participation in these sectors via new issues or the secondary markets.
For more information on Lomiko, review the website at www.lomiko.com.
Greg Morris was speaking today. Would like to see a transcript or video.
Actually both Alcoa and Kuka have historical links to Sigma Labs. Just do a web search for each company name and Sigma Labs and you'll see the connections. And actually Alcoa gave them a small contract back in 2011:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sigma-labs-receives-contract-from-alcoa-for-advanced-manufacturing-process-development-126659223.html
My thoughts, exactly.
Here's many of the upcoming conferences that are relevant to Sigma Labs:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105661490
On Oct 1st, he's speaking at CanWeld 2014:
CanWeld 2014 Vancouver BC September 28 - October 1, 2014
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1
In Process Quality
Assurance (IPQA)
for Critical Welding:
Background Technology
and Applications
Vivek R. Dave
Sigma Labs Inc USA
9:35 - 10:00 AM
Vivek R. Dave
Dr. Dave has extensive experience in assuring quality for critical welds. He has worked with a wide range of clients including aerospace, defense, oil and gas, offshore construction, shipbuilding, automotive, and renewable energy. Dr. Dave earned his BS from Caltech in Engineering Science and his MS and PHD from MIT in Materials Engineering. His expertise is in solid state joining, materials engineering, arc welding, electron beam and laser welding and materials processing, additive manufacturing, and process modeling and control.
https://www.cwaevents.org/sites/cwaevents.org/files/documents/cwc14ProgramWeb.pdf
Anyone live near Columbus, Ohio, with free time on their hands, Friday October 3rd. With our numerous connections with Edison Welding Institute, this might be worthwhile.
http://ewi.org/events/157/national-manufacturing-day-open-house/
National Manufacturing Day Open House
October 03, 2014
Please join us on National Manufacturing Day for an Open House at EWI! On Friday, October 3, we will offer two public presentations and tours (10:00am and 2:00pm) of our state-of-art facility and laboratories. Sign up for the 90-minute tour that is most convenient for you, and come learn how EWI is working to shape the future of manufacturing through innovative technology solutions. Registration for the event is required and space is limited, so sign up today!
Here you go:
ANALYSIS: Morris explains how GE came to embrace 3D printing
By: STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC
Source: 10 hours ago
GE Aviation has spent decades building a reputation as a materials trailblazer in the engines business.
The Cincinnati-based engine maker has consistently turned to new and sometimes exotic materials to solve engineering problems. As modern engines have driven up bypass and compression ratios to become more fuel efficient, GE has introduced carbonfibre fan blades to reduce the weight of wider fans and integrated titanium aluminide turbine blades and ceramic matrix composite (CMC) turbine shrouds to survive in higher temperatures.
Despite this reliable track record, industry peers still seemed caught off guard and unguardedly sceptical about GE’s sudden and deep plunge into the emerging world of additive manufacturing. Like the widespread introduction of composite materials in the 1990s, additive manufacturing inserts both new materials and a new production process far removed from industrial age practices like forging and casting.
The speed and scale of GE’s embrace of 3D printed parts seems unprecedented. It took the industry decades of experimentation before allowing composite materials to be used in load-bearing structures, starting with the rudder of the Airbus A310 and increasing gradually over the next four decades.
Even as most aerospace companies still limit 3D printers to rapid prototyping shops and one-off plastic components, GE is opening a 9,290m2 (100,000ft2) factory in Alabama to produce a key component in every CFM International Leap engine, with annual production of up to 40,000 pieces a year. The same factory and another facility recently erected in Italy also could produce an even more numerous part on the GE9X, GE’s highly prized power source for the Boeing 777X family.
Most aerospace industry officials agree that additive manufacturing will be revolutionary, but not for at least 20 years. GE is revolutionising its manufacturing system now, with billions of orders at stake on every Boeing 737, Comac C919 and CFM-powered Airbus A320 in the backlog.
Although it appeared that GE emerged as the industry’s lonely champion of additive manufacturing overnight, the real story unfolded over several decades, with a starring role played by an industrial neighbour in Cincinnati with no background in the aerospace manufacturing business.
Greg Morris comes from a Cincinnati family that presided over a large steel distribution company since the mid-19th century. The family business was sold, however, in the early 1990s, leaving Morris with plenty of capital and nothing to do.
Over the next 20 years, the company he founded with two others – Morris Technologies – would help transform additive manufacturing from a niche technique to make one-off prototypes into a mainstream production system for some of the world’s most advanced aircraft engines.
Morris Technologies began in 1994 with the acquisition of a 3D Systems SLA-250, the first 3D laser printer on the market. The system was advanced for its time, but still limited to building fragile materials.
“At that point the resins were okay but they not robust at all,” Morris says. “In fact, you could drop it from here to the table and it would likely break.”
Despite the limitations, such early 3D printers transformed rapid prototyping operations. For the first time, an engineer with a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) drawing could make parts from scratch within hours, without the need to order raw materials, invest in new tooling and tie up machinists.
Moving from rapid prototyping into mainstream production would take nearly a decade of further development. Even as 3D printers became more powerful and the resins more robust, such systems were still comparatively unsophisticated compared to mainstream production tools like computer numerical control machines.
Not only would such a system have to precisely manufacture thousands of parts with close tolerances reliably and affordably, the machines would also need to monitor themselves, alerting operators of anything unexpected. Ideally, the machine would sense small fluctuations in the power supply to the laser, or perhaps minute changes in atmospheric pressure inside the printing chamber.
Obtaining machines with such potential became possible about a decade ago, but only with significant alterations. On a visit in 2003 to a UK facility of a key client – Cincinnati-based Proctor & Gamble – Morris discovered the direct metal laser sintering machine made by Munich-based EOS.
At the time, Morris Technologies was still a start-up company with a broad range of clients spanning GE’s rapid prototyping shop, medical devices and consumer products. Buying the EOS machine, however, was still a big risk. Their intention was to acquire the machine and modify it substantially to suit a more sophisticated clientele, and thereby void the warranty and the guarantee for EOS support on the machine.
“We went over to Germany, we researched it and then we took the plunge,” Morris recalls.
That decision would set in motion a path to make highly sophisticated direct parts using exotic metals, such as the cobalt-chromium discs at the base of an engine fuel nozzle, where tiny perforations and channels blend kerosene and highly compressed air in a precisely calibrated mixture before it is ignited in the combustion chamber.
By 2005, Morris Technologies had upgraded the direct laser sintering machine from a carbon dioxide-based laser to a fibre-optic laser. The more powerful laser allowed the company to start working with more exotic metals, including cobalt-chromium, Inconel 718, Inconel 626 and various titanium and aluminium alloys.
Other modifications focused on controlling the environment inside the printing chamber. Consumers can buy 3D printers with a guarantee of 10,000 oxygen parts per million inside the printing chamber. The best manufacturing machines available on the market offer better quality, limiting oxygen to 2,000 parts per million. The Morris Technologies machines are rated to maintain an atmosphere of 50 parts per million.
Other manufactures are using 3D printed parts as support structures in engines, such as brackets. It is also commonly used for serpentine-like ventilation ducts in aircraft. Some industry officials, such as Pratt & Whitney vice-president of technology and environment Alan Epstein, have challenged the “hype” over additive manufacturing techniques, arguing that the technology will not be ready for widespread application for another 20 years.
But Morris argues that the naysayers simply have not been working on the technology as long or made the same investments in improving the commercially available machines.
“It’s very expensive. It takes millions of dollars to develop your material curves,” Morris says. “We have probably a much better understanding of the technology and the material characteristics than others who have either gone down that road or haven’t been playing with the technology as long as we have.”
In 2012, GE acquired Morris Technologies shortly after revealing that each of the 19 fuel nozzles inside each Leap engine would be manufactured with a cobalt-chrome tip.
The design of a fuel nozzle made by the Morris Technologies machines presented challenges. Engineers assessed a “debit” on the low- and high-cycle fatigue properties of the original part, a characteristic caused by using laser sintering to produce it, rather than a casting.
“What our engineers and designers did is they designed around that debit, and that’s the beauty of what you can do with this technology,” Morris says. “Instead of letting a debit… cause a roadblock they simply designed around it.”
If GE’s strategy works, this is only the beginning. Additive manufacturing opens doors to more than just new designs and new materials, Morris says. It also allows GE’s engineers to design something like a turbine blade very differently, with several layers of material optimised for their location on the blade. Right now, a turbine blade is made with a single material, even though blending different materials could be more effective.
“What if in a high-pressure turbine blade instead of it being one material I can vary my materials in the future, and I can use one material here, blend in the next material and at the tip I get an abrasion resistant material,” Morris says. “That’s coming. That’s work that GE is on the leading edge of understanding fundamentally how to do.”
Interesting article:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/analysis-morris-explains-how-ge-came-to-embrace-3d-403935/
I like how Morris Technologies, back in 2003 buy an EOS printer and promptly alter it, knowing they have voided the warranty.
I also like this quote:
Sigma Labs on the road to commercialization
Here's a replay of the webcast yesterday:
http://bit.ly/1nOWq5D
And here is the Q & A portion (for those new to Sigma Labs, Mark Cola & Vivek Dave are the CEO and Chief Scientist, respectively):
http://bit.ly/1nOWqlT
Two sweet words that are music to my ears.
I like seeing that connection with EOS, beyond just purchasing a printer. The GE - EOS - SGLB connection is alive. During the Q&A today it would be nice to get in a question to see if they can elaborate on the "partnership" aspect.
Yeah, 31% gain on the day is nice. Hopefully we can slowly build off this.
Nice find. This needs to be added to the Conference Schedule.
Please, please you need to get on the Ihub board of each of these companies and sound your alarm to warn all these investors, just as you do here (5,152 posts to date and climbing). Plus contact the CEO of each of these companies because their wasting millions of dollars performing R&D, developing patents, building MIM machines, supplying ingots, etc.
No you do get the point, because you know more about Liquidmetal, than all these large companies (Apple, Swatch, Materion, Engel, Lockheed Martin) and NASA combined. I posed the question: Who do you believe the Ihub board members or the CEOs and you made your choice, by selecting the board members, shocking. Have a blessed day.
I trust their hiring decisions, I just want to know how many employees and what are their titles. To me this information tells you a lot about where they are on their path to commercialization. Are they hiring technical staff, sales staff, management? I still don't know why this information isn't readily available. Chris Witty stated in an email that they could not provide this. With all that being said, I agree that there are many more important questions we should be asking.
I wonder who's advice investors should take?
On the one hand we have some board members here who have hundreds and one with over 5,100 posts (What is his name?) that spout the same old negativity based on old information.
Or
The CEO's of billion dollar companies (Apple, Swatch, Materion, Engel, Lockheed Martin), that are heavily invested in Liquidmetal.
I'll let you decide.
For those new to this board here's a summary of where we are at:
Critical relationships with NASA and many billion dollar companies: Apple, Materion, Engel, Swatch, Lockheed Martin, and ??? It makes you wonder why all these billion dollar companies are spending huge sums of money on research and development, developing patents, building metal injection molding machines, supplying Liquidmetal ingots, etc?
From Engel's web page, describing Liquidmetal and the new MIM machine: