I think Silver makes an excellent point here. It is obvious that GE is under tremendous pressure to get their jet engines (and their fuel nozzels) into production as rapidly as possible. GE has had prototypes and (I assume) regular enhancements to the PrintRite3D system) for over two years now. There is obvious interest here and it seems certain that PrintRite3D is being seriously considered as an integral component of their future manufacturing plans. The general expectation of the majority of posters here is that a very large order for PrintRite3D and Deform is right around the corner from GE. That may well be the case. However, if I were GE and I was planning on utilizing PrintRite3D right off the bat in the manufacturing of my fuel nozzles I would have had 25/30 copies of the software and sensor pak on hand for the past 18 months testing it to the limits to see whether it would stand up in a high volume manufacturing environment. The fact that they have not done this suggests to me that PritRite3D and likely Deform are promising technologies for future implementation and testing at GE, but are not going to be utilized in the first wave of manufacturing of the fuel nozzles. We are all speculating at this point, but that is what I see. One other question which I have not seem addressed here is that PrintRoite 3D's has a hardware component (the SensorPak.) Is a quantity of these on hand at SGLB were they to receive an order, or would these be produced following an order? Is the SensorPak hardware independent, or must it be customized for each printer model?
