A lot of people here need to take a chill pill. SGLB is doing fine. But there are a huge amount of moving parts here. Most here have no idea of the momentous and enormous difficulties that needed to be overcome for production metal AM. The vision of what is just barely out of our grasp, the anticipated possibility of AM, was only just clear enough for the innovators to see a mere five or six years ago.
Big data is a bigger consideration than you are aware of. Edge computing is a bigger consideration than you are aware of. The question of the global 5G platform rollout being capable of helping is a bigger consideration than you are aware of. The design of the metal AM industry is being driven by the huge OEMs of the globe. And they aren't just interested in printing a complex part without defects. They have nothing short of the inauguration of a full digital industrial manufacturing revolution as their goal. Yes, there were and are issues of final part production print quality. In some instances, not long ago, engineers would set up a print run, and come back to find parts had been made that resembled nothing like what they expected. In some cases the produced parts came out like grotesque monsters; completely unidentifiable. They had to figure out why.
Now, things have come far enough that industry is looking at IPQA for process control, as well as inspection. The data stream must be dealt with or it is meaningless. It is not as simple as saying that because PR3D does what it says it does, I'll take four hundred of them please. The whole system of production must be able to handle it all. There are very big, very disruptive changes coming to humanity in digital function and ability that will impact manufacturing in enormous ways. The impacts will be across a broad spectrum of other aspects of humanity too. But the innovation of the single concept of SGLB's IPQA is a marvel. It's too bad the scale of the application across the global population won't be as ubiquitous as the cell phone. There would have been the potential for hundreds of billions of dollars of returns for investors had that been the case.
But I am cheered by the likes of SGLB in the effort for innovation in such a bold stroke. Instead of continuously harping, you might try becoming more knowledgeable about the industry's work and vision. It takes work, I know. Laziness is so easy to do. It reminds me of a famous quote by one of America's singular characters.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood......if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Just keep on marching SGLB. Progress is good. The industry is coming to you.
All the best,
Silversmith
AI
