Technology Insight
AM is Diverse
The Additive World is small, and while it grows it contracts elsewhere. This is because there are a lot of competing companies and technologies fighting for the same applications.
Applications are everything, and printing technologies exist for low volume injection molds or large sand-casting patterns. It depends on what you want to accomplish.
But being able to accomplish it isn't everything, how do you do it in a way that drastically reduces time and cost and isn't a burden to your daily cadence.
My mentors are consultants and well versed in all of technologies, and so am I by proxy. The growth of LPBF, the fall - and rise - of sheet lamination, WAAM, LFAM, binder jetting, SLA, DLP, micro-scale printing. There's so much out there and I'm lucky enough to talk to people all over the AM community daily for the past 7 years+. With this comes and understanding of who is being trusted daily and who is collecting dust. I've seen a $500,000 machine sitting in the corner in 3 different places, and a $700 machine being used nonstop.
This is where I can help, let's take an appropriate approach to AM. Let's identify your stakeholders, understand how to upskill them if we have to, how to qualify parts and applications, and how to be more profitable utilizing additive technologies.