Replies to post #14750 on Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[r0und3r]

In case you missed it. Sigma is hiring staff to implement and support PrintRite3D. Commercialization is most likely closer than you think.

Once commercialized, the biggest factor will be how fast the 3D printer manufacturers can pump out machines.

Once they prove out the system, every other aerospace company will be fighting each other to be next in line for a machine.

Mark Colas "Intel inside" model of commercialization will make this bigger than you can imagine.

Greg Morris of GE Aero himself said of the In-process quality assurance system that it's "...something we must get inside the machines themselves"

Feel free to play devils advocate, I guess it makes for a healthy atmosphere around here.

Me, I'm not willing to risk missing this train.

[silversmith]

Alan,
All good points if that is the direction that SGLB goes. I have not heard any indication that SGLB management intends to go with a distributor for actual installations and all of the calibration/training/documentation that goes along with installs.

I was once a part of a startup company that supplied manufacturing processes to electronics components manufacturing companies. It was very much like what SGLB is going to be doing. I was a field sales/technical service engineer for the company for 16 years. We grew the company from $1mm sales to $125mm sales in about 3 years with 8 field based people. Granted, we were hopping and on the go constantly. I would fly to anywhere in the US on any given day to handle whatever came up. After that, the company grew much larger in a hurry. My point is that SGLB may elect to perform the rollout and installations, and all that goes with it, from within. They may not choose to go with a distributor. And they can ramp the necessary personnel to do that in a very short time. I am amazed at how similar this whole AM industry is, in its infancy, to the infancy of the electronics industry. It is amazingly similar. SGLB has the valid choice to go it themselves, and I suspect that that is what they will do. I am not sure that a distributor arrangement will be the way to go.
For sure we will need guidance from the management to determine how they intend to proceed.

All the best,
Silversmith