Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[MDuffy]

Quality is almost always at odds with production. I know of a metals plant built a few decades ago, they added quality on as an afterthought. It was not on anyone's mind until the end, and only because the gov't (DOTs nuclear whatevers etc) required them to meet certain standards, and trying to explain metallurgical principles along with a whole new method I imagine is difficult. It is probably not first priority to many companies buying the additive buzz because they don't really understand it yet. Even at GE, the ones who WOULD understand it don't have the clout to purchase/do anything about it, since their engineers/scientists are more of a "nerd farm" (you've seen their commercials with that "Owen"). I had a buddy in college, real smart, who applied there as an engineer, with visions of engineering maybe a decade, and moving up into management, and the guy told him, you should probably go elsewhere, we like our engineers and tech guys to stay that way-- we'd take you, but you'd basically be a cog in a wheel. My husband got mad at them too because their HR rep at some job thing was convinced they don't hire metallurgists, or physicists, even though my husband had looked at specific jobs that said otherwise and he wisecracked, "Yeah, cause physics is totally not important for flight." Lol [Terrible].