Predictions? If the sintering parameter study is repeatable for production applications, then a sales surge could happen soon. I think it will take some modifications to the programming software for the machine set up. Anyone know a good digital start-up company? http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/12/974/pdf An Investigation of Sintering Parameters on Titanium Powder for Electron Beam Melting Processing Optimization By only sintering the area in which the melt pool for the components is created, an average productivity improvement of approx. 20% was achieved. It sounds to good (and easy) to be true. If it is true, that's a huge step change in productivity.