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Imo, I like it. glta https://sigmaadditive.com/
That's a lot of engines. glta
Aerojet has been doing great lately and now even more vital to US space interests. https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/aerojet-rocketdyne-optimizes-3d-printed-quad-thruster-for-low-cost-space-exploration-207426/
"In 2017, the firm renewed its commitment to using Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D software, and also integrated a 3D printed preburner into its AR1 rocket engine which was later successfully hot-fire tested."
That GE connection goes back to at least 10 yrs Morris Tech. and the JTDA sglb signed with GE to develop this very technology. Since then sglb has announced they are collaborating with a number of ge competitors but very little about ge. Seems GE has its own ipqa for its metal machines now so was curious if there still was a sglb ge connection, besides our new CEO coming directly from there. While there hasn't been much in the press or sglb one way or the other it seems materialise is working with ge though. glta https://www.materialise.com/en/software/build-processor/concept-laser-build-proccessor
Great News! New hire coming soon. no pun. background will be interesting. Even merger opening? glta
" First, we doubled revenue over the prior year, continuing to add key blue-chip customers aligned around using our technology to advance the industry towards production. "
Not sure if sglb has already announced all new additions of "key blue chip customers."
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You wanna be really careful of exactly what you are firing your laser at though. really glta
I hope so!
Sounds logical.
Nothing to do with political "sides." Sorry for the confusion. Thought it was common knowledge about our "situation." glta
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Technically inaccurate ... sounds like us supply Poland, Poland supplies U. Not sure how relevant to sglb.
Nikki Haley on Meet the Press today. glta
Tool. Think Tool. It's another Tool. glta
Imo, LM will require some am suppliers to use pr3d for verification/validation/certification...etceteration, for some of their purchased am parts/components. glta
For sure. More to come. glta
https://www.americamakes.us/videos/virtual-game-day-series-quality-made-2-24-2022/ (lockheed talks a lot about in-process sensing) 2:20 interesting q/a
Easy to understand "Edge Computing" article from Siemens. Was rept that $sglb working w $itox for their edgyness. glta.
https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/stories/industry/industrial-edge.html?linkId=300000002075647
"...Some manufacturers may have concerns that edge computing is possible only with expensive investments in new automation systems. But the technology should in fact be seen as a supplement to existing equipment. With Siemens’ Industrial Edge, edge data processing devices can simply be connected to existing automation systems, fully integrated with them, or delivered with the systems themselves as a standard component. As a result of this flexibility, implementation costs should no longer be an issue, not even for SMEs. Moreover, edge technology also enhances automation systems by adding data analysis capability and other features to take full advantage of the IIot while increasing production flexibility and efficiency. By using a software standard docker, Siemens relies on the platform-independent scalability of applications and thus ensures maximum flexibility and futureproofing."
Edge as well as cloud computing are becoming increasingly important for a growing number of processing industries. The most sensible strategy, then, is to utilize the best of both technologies, since they optimally complement one another. By combining both technologies, data processed by edge computing can be used in the cloud to train AI algorithms. The resulting findings can then be downloaded back into the edge infrastructure, making possible an ongoing optimization of the entire manufacturing process.$sglb uses $itox
"... the most exciting part is yet to come. While the two companies haven’t mentioned so, it would appear possible for a deeper degree of automation to be developed with this joint platform. Imagine if instead of the operator being notified, the system itself made the correct adjustments and allowed the job to continue and complete successfully? It would appear the pieces of that style of solution could be at hand, and we might see something like this evolve from the MCP PrintRite3D technology." Some guy's opinion. glta
https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/materialise-announces-mcp-printrite3d-technology
Via Materialise and Sigma Labs
Thanks Vis. This seems significant:) Continuing w eos. glta
Some might consider intensified commercial partnerships and a new revenue structure as "fundamental" changes. glta
Dewd! Just listened. Feel nice and warm from being fireside. Things are definitely heating up for sglb. glta
Talking shop with GM. https://amcoe.org/events/7thsnapshot
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New partners?
"Senior Vice President Jacob Brunsberg will discuss the announcement of Sigma’s partnership with Aconity3D as well as upcoming partnerships stemming from the Company’s participation at Formnext 2021 in Frankfurt, Germany." glta
Metal printers are reportedly more costly than polymers to run so that would make sense. Some of the polymer builds can be very complicated and costly as well and also require robust quality assurances though.
One guess is that someday a machine might be built to do both metal and polymer during the same build? So pr3d would come in handy there I suppose. Some metal parts being used in aerospace and other industries today can only be created through additive manufacturing and a value of Pr3d is that it has the capability to really get into the atomics of a metal build and look at all of the processes going on while building a metal part like a rocket's expensive combustion chamber or a series of complicated heat exchangers or customized implants. These current AM parts are low production items by nature at this point, as implied, a pull factor for the purchase of pr3d would be the high cost of metal am in the facilities, metals, machines, time, post inspection. Though it seems that critical use metal components still have to try to be post build inspected as well. From what I've read, even the best post build inspection tools can't be sure about some of the smaller inner chambers and builds being done now. Reportedly as you probably know, Pr3d can see those inner chambers/walls/channels/ etc as they are being built. This might be an important use with polymers as well but I don't know. With polymers it would seem a market of scale could help pr3d sales if pr3d could perhaps provide a good/bad part id on thousands/millions of non-critical use polymer parts as they are being built pr3d would provide the same cost savings relative to polymers on the build times, waste, and post-build inspection/time etc. glta
"...reviewing expansion opportunities into new markets and introducing key 2022 milestones." Not much to go on here. "New markets" equals polymers? Something else? Trying to equate the term "2022 milestones" in this context. Literally, milestones are placed along a route to mark distances. Some people view them as points of distance travelled. While others use them to calculate distance still needed to travel. These are usually placed by previous travelers of the path. Not sure there are many previous pathfinders here. Metaphorically, a milestone marks an extremely important event in the life of an entity; like a huge business deal. ;) glta
Reps from Ford, DDD, AFRL, NASA, Academia, at America Makes panel on am ecosystem. Lots of good stuff in many of the recently released videos from America Makes/Conference on youtube. This one is insightful and talks in-situ monitoring @ 33 min. glta
Back at you Kanya.
https://www.materialise.com/en/blog/3d-printing-trends-2022?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=CORP-GEN-21272-awa-svpca-Trends2022 Heads at $mtls talk about the importance of data in am. In pm too. Seems like little ol'sglb might be on the inside track for once. Glta
EOS has a line of polymer machines. From last week, Here is a presentation with EOS and America Makes partner, LIFT. Seems EOS is well regarded for their metal machines but they are also working with our partner Spartacus on polymers as well. Whole presentation was informative but @49 min and 56 min a little about our area of focus. glta