Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

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Greg Morris Article from IW: (thanks Jackle for posting that Greg Morris Won Technology LEader of the YEAR!)

IW: I'm happy you brought that up. I think it was that team focus on real 3-D printing expertise that was the real point of the selection. As I see it, many people in the industry still like to think of 3-D printing as an easy process. Just import the CAD file, hit print and let it run.
But that's not really the case on the industrial side, right?

GM: No, absolutely not.

The technology still needs a certain level of expertise and knowledge and background and capability. There is clearly a human capital shortage to be able to run the machines and to know what you're doing as you run them.

I completely agree that that is the case today. Will that be the case forever? Probably not.

I think the machines will get better and more intuitive and the software programs that are being looked at and being written will do a good job of anticipating stresses and correcting for it before you start to build those kinds of things.

So technologies will catch up, but not for probably a good five years now. Maybe longer.

In the meantime, there are only a handful of people that really know the technology well.

IW: And you are one of them.

GM: That's probably true.

http://www.industryweek.com/technology/unassuming-king-3-d-printing?page=1