Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

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We do have confirmed sales. What we don't have is a steady stream of sales or a steady drip of sales because SGLB is early to this space and waiting for mass AM production to catch up. The Early Adopter Program is so appropriate as it clearly demonstrates where AM is in it's life cycle of mass production of critical metal parts requiring FAA/FDAapproval. The companies that requested quotes are the Early Adopters in the AM industry for critical metal parts which will need to adhere to the strictest of standards while being mass produced. We know that GE Aviation is the hands down leader and many others are working toward the AM mass production of metal now.

I one big thing holding PrintRite3D sales up and that is Standards.

The standards are still being developed See: https://www.americamakes.us/news-events/events/event/264-astm-nist-workshop-on-mechanical-behavior-of-additive-manufactured-components

Once these standards have been developed I'm betting the floodgates will open up as Sigma Labs is working hand in hand with these organizations that are developing the AM standards.

The production problems are being worked out. The first mass producton line of critical metal parts will come from Aerospace which is specifically CFM international. The fuel nozzles are first then fan blades, turbines etc. The AM parameters are still being set.

Additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, is exploding right now. GE estimates that by 2025, more than 20 percent of new products will involve additive processes of some kind. But there’s no cookbook that standardizes the recipes, which have oodles of parameters that determine the properties of the final part. “It’s like baking a cake. You need to start with the right recipe, then you need to have the right ingredients and the right oven,” Vinciquerra says. “A cup of materials science, a tablespoon of design and a whole lot of machine-control strategies must come together and yield perfection.” Technologies like direct metal laser melting (DMLM), for example, can involve several lasers as powerful as 1 kilowatt—enough to burn a hole in a wall—fusing as many as 1,250 layers of fine superalloy powder into the desired shape. Some large builds can take days to finish.

Last week, GE opened a new industrial-scale 3D-printing center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It will work closely with Vinciquerra’s team, test their findings and get GE factories quickly cooking with additive.

His team has already started testing and tabling the powdered materials used in additive manufacturing and their properties. “We want to know how they come together, how they affect each other and what machines and processes are best suited for them,” Vinciquerra says. “It’s just like a gourmet recipe. We need to know how our ingredients are going to react in a mixer or an oven. And what changes can we make to those ingredients, the mixer or the oven to produce a more palatable dish?”

http://www.france-metallurgie.com/index.php/2016/05/07/these-scientists-are-writing-the-3d-printing-cookbook-for-ge-us/


The Long SGLB investors understand that this is all being worked in the background as SGLB hires new engineers to work with the GE's and Honeywells to fine tune the recipe. The recipe must be perfect and repeatable to establish the same great tasting product again and again. The engineers are quickly narrowing that gap and working with FDA and FAA to ensure that is happens sooner than later. There are billions in orders that are riding on this.

The orders will come soon as AM industry is ready; thus, I encourage all who have time to maintain awareness of AM developments. I'm not saying that every company that requested a quote will purchase PrintRite3D but if a third of those companies quoted decide to go with PrintRite3D to meet their AM mass production cost saving needs then we truly have a winner here. Patience folks the chefs are still working on perfecting the recipe.