Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[MDuffy]

Part of the America Makes program is sharing of America Makes IP among the full-fledged members. to my knowledge, we are not one of those, though that did concern me when I read it. I forget who it was that posted it, but sometime over the summer a document from America Makes was floated reviewing the pros and cons of the past year of work and one of the loopholes was smaller non member organizations (like Sigma) getting $ benefits without paying dues. I have no idea how any of the America Makes stuff will work in terms of who profits from the finished products… but I know GE is the project leader, so it does concern me a bit.

https://americamakes.us/membership/benefits

…if someone can find the America Makes official review please reply.

Led by General Electric Aviation, in partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne; B6 Sigma, Inc.; Burke E. Porter Machinery Company; Honeywell Aerospace; Montana Tech of The University of Montana; and TechSolve, Inc., this project will address the need for the development of a commercially available, platform-independent Quality Assurance technology for high-volume AM production of aerospace components, which is currently lacking within the industry. The proposed effort will be achieved through the maturation of an IPQA technology solution that leverages a development approach, incorporating multiple AM machines and multiple super alloys.

https://americamakes.us/home-2/item/488-in-process-quality-assurance-ipqa-for-laser-powder-bed-production-of-aerospace-components


It's clear the "maturation" is of our IPQA [insert symbol here] technology [none of the other members listed on the team had anything prior to this initiative] and we have agreements with just about all of them…. but who will benefit is the million dollar question.

I'd kill to see those JTDAs. I trust Honeywell more than GE personally- but it's all part of the same deal here.