AM Voices: Recent Episodes
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AM Voices Video Podcast - Frank Roberts, President of 6K Additive at Formnext 2022
Frank Roberts sat down with Adam Penna in the 6K Additive booth at Formnext 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany for an episode of the AM Voices podcast to discuss the latest news with 6K and their success with material processing for additive manufacturing using their patented Uni-Melt process.
Topics include:
• Uni-Melt process value
• 6K Additive quality
• Fraunhofer ILT and 6K Additive Announce Partnership
• 6K Additive Announces Plans to Double their Powder Manufacturing Capacity
• Methodology
• Applications
More info and AM Voices audio podcast: HERE
Frank Roberts is the President of 6K Additive where he has built the 6K Additive, Global Manufacturing Center, a new 45 acre, 80,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art production facility for premium additive manufacturing powders and titanium pucks. This facility is ISO9001 certified and is currently in the process of AS9011 certification. Frank has over 20 years of experience in the specialty metals industry. Prior to joining 6K Additive, Frank was the CEO of AL Solutions, where he led a team in a greenfield development building a new facility producing alloy additions for the aluminum industry. He has extensive experience in all facets of manufacturing including, facility design, greenfield development, process design, project management, finance, and operations management. Frank holds a Metallurgical Engineering degree from Penn State University.
Adam Hopkins, CEO of Uniformity Labs joined me for Season 3, Episode 2 of the AM Voices video podcast. Visiting onsite in Ithaca, New York at metal 3D printing contract manufacturer Incodema3D gave me an appreciative perspective on the materials development work behind some of the most advanced production 3D printed parts in aerospace. I had the opportunity to find out more about what makes Uniformity Labs feedstock materials and print processes dramatically impact the reliability and efficiency of the Additive Manufacturing (AM) value chain from Uniformity Labs CEO, Adam Hopkins.
Topics include:
• Overview of Uniformity Labs and how the company got started.
• Technology developed and the valued combination of materials and parameters
• Addressing both Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Binder Jetting technologies.
• Agnostic solutions to machine OEM and metal alloy
• Polimotor application = CAM tray 3D printed at Incodema3D
• Maintaining material properties even at build rates 2-3 times faster than the standard
• Expanding beyond Aerospace and Medical
• How Uniformity Labs technology be impacting the adoption of AM and machines.
• Reducing carbon footprint and sustainability for manufacturing.
• Accelerating the adoption of AM across all the major industries.
Video available: AdditiveManufacturing.com
Adam Hopkins
Adam is an entrepreneur and scientist focused on the commercialization of breakthrough technologies in the physical sciences and novel materials. He is a founder of and since its inception has served as CEO of Uniformity Labs, a rapidly growing additive manufacturing materials, printing, and software company born out of IP conceived and developed by himself and Princeton professor Salvatore Torquato. He has led technical and business teams at venture backed high-tech startups developing novel thermoelectric, photonic, and phononic materials, and he is the author of several materials and manufacturing processes patents, including on the topics of granular media density enhancement, additive manufacturing print processes, thermoelectric design and production, and phononic attenuation. He earned his Ph. D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Princeton, where he was awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship and the Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in Computational Physics. Adam obtained his bachelor's degree also at Princeton (cum laude) in Physics, with minors in Materials Science and Applied Mathematics.
Uniformity Labs produces engineered powders and materials that helps customers realize substantial quality and efficiency improvements in additive and conventional manufacturing at scale using its ground-breaking, high-density metal powders and advanced manufacturing processes expertise. Delivering part production readiness across a large and growing portfolio of materials. Its patented technology uniquely enables groundbreaking improvements in throughput and reductions in residual stress across materials and platforms in laser powder bed fusion printing. In Binder Jetting, Uniformity powders deliver fully dense parts with minimal sintering shrink, resulting in the ability to manufacture to otherwise unobtainable high precision, material mechanical properties.
I had the opportunity to learn more about Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (L-PBF) material development from Elementum3D during a visit inside the Incodema3D contract manufacturing facility outside of Ithaca, NY. Incodema3D has a completely metal additive manufacturing facility that is focused on mission-critical parts for aerospace.
Elementum3D is devoted to working with customers on L-PBF materials that are specifically developed for the applications that are scaling the industry by providing better value within cost per part scenarios. Founder and President of Elementum3D, Dr Jacob Nuechterlein and Director of Business Development, Alex Janzen sat down to discuss their current expansion and the reason their materials are driving the groundbreaking end use parts in metal 3D printing.
Video available: AdditiveManufacturing.com
Topics Include:
• Rhenium material development (DARPA funded) update
• Hypersonic – nickel alloys
• Metal matrix composites – ODS materials
• Heat exchanger applications
• Elementum3D’s patented RAM (reactive additive manufacturing) technology
• NASA to F1 racing and beyond
Dr. Jacob Nuechterlein
Dr. Jacob Nuechterlein is the founder and president of Elementum 3D in Erie, CO. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (2010), Master of Science (2011), and Doctor of Philosophy (2013) at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, within 7 years. Dr. Nuechterlein has been working in powder metallurgy for the past 15 years. Elementum 3D’s work with powder bed laser additive manufacturing is based on these principles.
His research with composition design, batching, mixing, and forming green parts directly relates to the handling and distribution of powder for additive manufacturing materials development. His thesis work in thermodynamics and formation kinetics of metal matrix composites is directly related to all 3D printing processes.
About Elementum3D
The Elementum 3D team is laser-focused on remaining in the lead in both of those areas so that our customers in turn can lead their industries by supplying state-of-the-art, high-performing, alloy-based components.
Our continued success will be based on providing the most advanced 3D printing materials and technology while consistently maintaining supreme quality in all we do. Our commitment to serve our clients and investors will always be based on the highest level of respect and trust.
Elementum 3D’s success comes from our employee’s commitment to excellence. We look to our 50+ employees to advance their knowledge and skills every day to sustain our core initiative, provide a world-class experience at every Elementum 3D customer touchpoint. Elementum3D.com
Kelley McCarroll-Gilbert, Business Development Director, Global adidas Programs at Carbon in Los Angeles, California joined Adam J. Penna on the AM Voices podcast to explore Kelley's history and experience in additive manufacturing as well as discover what Carbon has been doing to lead vat photopolymerization 3D printing applications, design tools, customer success, product performance and innovation at scale.
Topics Include:
•Kelley's passion for additive manufacturing and working with customers at Carbon.
•How to identify applications that are a good fit for additive for Carbon technology.
•Carbons hardware, software design tools and materials that sets them apart and come together to create better products.
•Characteristics of successful customers.
•How product performance improvements are measured.
•How Carbon is uniquely positioned to bring innovative products to market at scale both through a partner network of proven contract manufacturers and through in-house production.
Kelley McCarroll-Gilbert
Kelley McCarroll-Gilbert is a Business Development Director on Carbon’s Application Development Team. Kelley leads a portfolio of applications, partnering with customers to implement the DLS technology into new break-through products and successfully scale to high-volume production. Kelley’s key focus to date has been on premium foam-replacement, working to replace foam with variable-density lattice parts. Prior to Carbon, Kelley worked in Business Development & Strategy at TPG, a global investment firm, and in Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. Kelley attended University of California, Los Angeles.
About Carbon
Carbon is a 3D printing technology company helping businesses to develop better products and bring them to market in less time. The Carbon DLS™ process combines versatile printers, advanced software, and best-in-class materials to deliver functional parts with end-use performance and aesthetics, helping engineers and designers to create products that outperform expectations. From prototyping and low-volume production to production-at-scale, global organizations use the Carbon process to create a wide range of functional end-use parts and print them reliably wherever and whenever they need them through Carbon’s production network partners. Carbon is a venture-backed company headquartered in Redwood City, CA. To learn more, follow Carbon on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
This is a follow-up conversation with Neal Orringer, President of ASTRO America, after hearing him speak on a panel at ASME’s AM Industry Summit back in June 2022.
President Biden launched the 'AM Forward' initiative in May 2022.
From the May 6 White House fact sheet:
“One of the best ways to lower the cost of the goods and services that families rely on is to make more things in America, with more secure, resilient supply chains.” – White House fact sheet from the launch of AM Forward –
Topics Include:
2:00 - Addressing Supply Chain Bottlenecks
3:00 - Seven Lead System Integrators
4:20 – AM Forward was born…talking with President Biden about AM adoption
5:20 – "Whole of Corporation" – drive adoption of AM (casting & forging)
6:10 - Financing, Qualification, Education – how small & medium suppliers access capital markets, receive qualification, and improve workforce development.
11:24 – Workforce Development
14:07 – Starting at the customer base with lead system integrators that are driving digitalization of the American supply chain
19:00 – ROI and bridging the gap & re-training the workforce
24:10 – Next steps with ASTRO America and AM Forward
Neal Orringer is a leader in advanced manufacturing and
public-private partnerships. He has built research and development
organizations in corporations of all sizes, and served as a political
appointee, as Director of Manufacturing at the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD), a senior manufacturing advisor to two U.S. Secretaries
of Commerce, and national security aide to three U.S. Senators.
He is a recipient of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional
Civilian Service Medal and the Secretary of Defense Excellence Award.
Today, Neal is president and co-founder of ASTRO America, a research institute and think tank supporting U.S. public interest through manufacturing technology/policy formulation.
About ASTRO America
The Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America (ASTRO America) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, non-partisan Research Institute and Think Tank. It was established in 2018 to advance the public interest through manufacturing technology and policy. Led by manufacturing professionals with broad public and private sector experience, ASTRO America supports collaborations by government agencies and companies to address supply chain challenges in highly regulated industries, including aerospace and defense.
Find out more: https://www.astroa.org/
Engineering the World's Fastest Resin 3D Printers: Izhar Medalsy, CTO of Nexa3D
Izhar Medalsy – CTO, Nexa3D from Ventura, California, United States
Topics include:
1 :00 - Izhar's background and experience - PhD Physical Chemistry - Nano and polymer development – now Photopolymer thermoplastics (high temp)
· What drives innovation decisions at Nexa3D?
2:30 – Motivation & innovation for high speed 3d printing.
- What is the secret to building faster 3D printers? Dynamic transformation. Days to hours “transform the way you design and iterate products”
5:14 – The secret to faster speed resin printers -"LSPc technology speed is at the core of our hardware"
8:50 – Scaling LCD for high speed resin 3D printing – scale - resolution – uniformity
11:44 - You recently launched a desktop 3D printer with this technology - how does that fit into the bigger picture?
14:55 - What else makes XiP unique compared with other desktop 3D printers?
16:00 - Materials
17:23 – Cost of Nexa 3D printer
18:04 – Post processing – what happens after it comes off the printer – end-to-end solutions - efficiency
22:05 – Applications
23:49 – Injection molding & 3D printing reality – competitive material development
"Speed of course is our main focus, but there are several other key differentiators"
27:31 – Post processing & what's to look for going forward
Peter Eelman – Chief Experience Officer at AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology
(IMTS) International Manufacturing Technology Show
September 12 - 17, 2022 | McCormick Place, Chicago IL
Topics Include:
• ASME/AMT Tech Leadership Summit @ IMTS 2022 & Live Lab
• Peter's background and experience
• How IMTS started and developed over the years
• Adjusting through the pandemic (2020)
• IMTS 2022 – what to expect and look forward to
• History of The Additive Manufacturing Pavilion at IMTS
• IMTS+ programming and the lead up to Formnext 2025 in USA
• Tips for IMTS 2022
After hosting the AM Industry Summit in Long Beach, California June 2022, Adam Penna took the opportunity to follow up on an invitation from Kevin Czinger to visit their facility in Torrance, California and learn more about re-inventing sustainable automobile production assembly from Chief Technology Officer, Michael Kenworthy at Divergent3D.
Topics include:
1:20 - How Mike got started in advanced manufacturing. MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science.
GE Aircraft, components and assemblies, 3D printing tooling, direct printing of end use parts. GE fuel nozzle, core strategy for growth of aviation business, Honeywell Chief Engineer for Additive Manufacturing.
3:17 - Opportunity to join Divergent3D.
3:30 - Connecting the benefits of 3D printing and extending that fully through the process of production.
Upstream in software and analysis and then downstream in automated assembly. Addressing the main pain points in automotive.
Tooling & fixtures, change cycle --- EV growth, carbon offsets.
5:21 - Czinger 21C Hypercar technology demonstrator to show what the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) can provide.
7:48 – Typical product has 20-30 individual printed pieces assembled (20-50 kg parts. 1/3 of vehicle. Ex. full engine cradles, chassis.
8:21 – More about the DAPS process including adhesives and node alignment (core technology)
10:34 – Sustainability and removing waste from the vehicle production process.
AMGTA partnership.
12:30 – The aluminum can, sustainability case study example – design freedom.
14:18 – Eight OEM dealer announcement in September and Global Dealership Network, Czinger vehicles.
16:22 – Czinger Vehicles subsequent reinvention of Luxury Coupe and SUV production.
21:13 – DAPS adaptation to industries beyond automotive.
Aerospace as logical growth for Divergent3D.
23:00 – Gleaning ambition from “one of the biggest thinkers in manufacturing”.
AM Automotive Summit in Detroit, MI - October 17-19, 2022
Brought to you by: Metrix, an ASME Company
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Eric Bert, Senior Vice President of Inkbit in Boston, MA joined Adam Penna on the AM Voices podcast to explore Eric's history and experience in additive manufacturing as well as explore what makes Inkbit multi material polymer solutions production ready.
Topics include:
- Eric's influence and experience in AM
- Inkbit Vista Unlocks Additive Manufacturing at Production Scale
- Contactless process enables the use of high-performance polymers
- Inkjet 3D printing using machine Vision to Control the Jetting print process. Vision-Controlled Jetting (VCJ)
- First 3D printer to provide closed loop feedback control of the print process.
- Multi-Material jetting to deliver exceptionally robust material characteristics and lowest cost-per-part
- Post-processing reduction
- Inkbit Applications
About Inkbit
Inkbit is an additive manufacturing company located in Medford, Massachusetts. The Inkbit Vista system is designed to mass-produce end-use polymer 3D printed parts. Incorporating a novel technology called Vision-Controlled Jetting (VCJ), Inkbit delivers high-resolution print, enabling users to produce parts with dimensional accuracy and precision at high volume. Using high-speed scanning, Inkbit delivers a materials jetting platform with the speed, precision, and materials required by the most demanding industrial applications. Learn more at inkbit3d.com.
About Eric BertEric is Inkbit’s Commercial Leader, managing sales, marketing, applications, and customer support. In previous roles, he served as COO at 3DMEDiTech, a patient-specific medical device manufacturer, SVP Global Sales at ARCAM (a GE Additive Company), and SVP of Sales – North America at Stratasys, a leading global supplier of additive manufacturing systems and materials. Eric holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Inkbit Media contact:
Lisa Hannon, Office, call: +1 978-788-4288 or email: lhannon@inkbit3d.com.
Claire Russell-Jones, Incus, call: +44 1737 215200 or email: inkbit@incus-media.com.
Suzan Niksarlioglu, Incus, call +44 7769 398206 or email: inkbit@incus-media.com.
Amelie Erben from Hyperganic Group joins Adam Penna on this episode of the AM Voices podcast to discuss the current state of bioprinting and employing the rules of nature to algorithms that shape the future of additive manufacturing.
Amelie covers what can be leveraged from the advantages that voxels have with cells and functional tissues to the bioprinting process from design, materials, simulation, to final application.
Amelie Erben studied Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Technical University of Deflt with a specialization towards Medical Engineering in her Master’s. As a PhD student in Bioprinting at TUM and the Center of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, Munich, she improved the micro printing workflow towards clinically relevant scaffolds. Challenged by the limitations of CAD tools to generate organotypical print templates for bioprinting, she demonstrated the capabilities of Algorithmic Engineering together with Hyperganic Group GmbH, where she is now working in Business Development.
Hyperganic radically redefines engineering to help improve the future of humanity. The company's software platform creates parts, structures and entire machines through computer algorithms and AI, and enables mass production in digital factories using industrial 3D printing.
Improving the sucess rate of desktop and industrial printing, Yoav Zeif the CEO of Stratasys took a moment with Adam Penna on the AM Voices podcast to discuss more about Stratasys recent sustainability report, leading by example, direct sales and service business model, enabling your partners, the resposibility to have quality entry level 3D printing, as well as the reality of supply chains, digital inventory, and the importance of teamwork and collabrative partnerships.
Rush LaSelle, CEO of AddUp joined Adam Penna for a chat on the AM Voices podcast the Monday after the Additive Manufacturing Users Group conference to reflect, catch-up, and share more about hands-on leadership. Rush opened up about his plans with AddUp as well as his inspirational journey into Additive Manufacturing from FANUC, to Adept Technology, Swisslog/KUKA robotics, and Jabil as well as his voluntary work with the non-profit named 3DP4ME.org that provides 3D printed hearing aid solutions to the most hearing-impaired locations in the Middle East.
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Kevin Czinger is founder, lead Inventor & CEO of Divergent3D and Czinger Vehicles. Divergent3D’s tagline is “Design Print Assemble Drive.”
Essentially reducing auto manufacturing waste and harnessing the value of digital manufacturing with an automated, modular process called Divergent Adaptive Production Process System (DAPS).
Kevin joined us on the AM Voices podcast to discuss plans for the Automotive industry. As well as the features, geometries, and functionality of incorporating additive manufacturing, robotics, and AI value with verifiable environmentally conscious manufacturing results.
After forty successful years in the CAD/CAM and Additive Manufacturing industry, Lee Dockstader retired in March of 2022. The day after his retirement, Lee took a moment with our AM Voices podcast to reflect on his inspirational career and share the wisdom of the journey.
Wisdom that sparked from beginning his own engineering start up to joining HP and then gaining international experience with 3D Systems. To his return with HP and his lessons from engaging the global product development process to grow Additive Manufacturing across verticals including Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Dental, Life Sciences, Consumer and Retail.
Thank you Lee and cheers, to a well-deserved and active retirement!
Tali Rosman, General Manager of Xerox Elem Additive, is a pleasure to have as our guest on this episode of AM Voices.
Tali demonstrates true hands-on leadership while being effortlessly able to articulate the total cost of ownership as well as where and when Additive Manufacturing leverages design, applications, supply chain, on-demand manufacturing, integrated manufacturing solutions, and the value of distributed manufacturing.
CEO of Nexa3D, Avi Reichental has been leading Additive Manufacturing for close to 20yrs. In this episode of AM Voices, Avi joins us to discuss everything from the importance of team to finding the right solution for the application, as well as true desktop and industrial 3D printers and what that means to product designers as we digitize supply chains sustainably.
We had a chance to speak with Seurat CEO, James DeMuth when the 3D metal printing leader had welcomed $21 million in new investments from Xerox Ventures and SIP Global Partners, bringing the total funding of $79 million to build production systems.
James shared about what they have been planning to do with their new investments, the business model of service, as well as the reality of displacing 0.15 GT/year of carbon emissions by 2025.
Our first guest, Dr. Hans J. Langer is a humble, hardworking, family centric person who also happened to be recognized by Forbes in 2019 as the first 3D printing billionaire.
After his humble beginnings applying research in plasma physics and then as Managing Director of Europe for General Scanning, Dr. Langer founded the family-owned company EOS in 1989 and built it into a global leader for high-end solutions in the field of industrial 3D printing with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF).
In this conversation, Dr. Langer shares about when (L-PBF) 3D printing technology got started, where it is now, and what we can look forward to as we work together building the value of the Additive Manufacturing ecosystem.
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