Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[silversmith]

Interesting video T&L. I sensed there were all kinds of unspoken undercurrents coming from both parties. I sense things are about to get intense, seriously competitive, no prisoners taken, timely action being essential, and all seriously important in the IPQA space.

I have only seen one company put out marketing info of a real time, on the fly, laser energy closed loop function. And they also directly refer to PR3D for capturing the IPQA data during print runs. That was Polaris.

None of the big named printer manufacturers, EOS, Concept(GE), Additive Industries, DMG, etc have touted closed loop laser energy functions to my knowledge.

A nice little dust up is in the making in the industry concerning how the various attempts at IPQA are going to get compiled into a working methodology. I suspect we will see war over it in the next bit of time.

PR3D is becoming so much more advanced than it was in the beginning. It is looking strong right now. The patents are going to be worth their weight in gold, or maybe bitcoin. I don't see the other IPQA programs(collections of data at differing emission frequencies) being allowed to encroach in SGLB's patent space.

The coming standards from ASTM, NIST and ISO are probably not going to absolutely spell out which IPQA program is acceptable and which is not. They are probably going to leave the end user to decide what degree of IPQA precision is desired for their specific end use. So the patents, degree of historical evaluation by the industry, capability power of PR3D, and machine agnosticism will likely be what enables SGLB to capture the lion's share of the IPQA market over time.

I believe we are now entering the beginning of the last chapters to be written in the book of IPQA battles for winning the industry's business.

All the best,
Silversmith