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In this episode of 3Degrees Discussions, Mike Vasquez sits down with Justin Levy, founder of DefendAM, to discuss one of the most important challenges facing the U.S. defense industrial base: building secure, scalable, domestic manufacturing capacity for unmanned aerial systems.Justin shares his journey into additive manufacturing and defense, his experience supporting Air Force and Navy manufacturing programs, and why he founded DefendAM to strengthen America's ability to rapidly produce mission-critical drone systems. The conversation explores the intersection of additive manufacturing, defense production, supply chain resilience, and the future of domestic manufacturing.Topics discussed include:The current state of U.S. drone manufacturingBuilding resilient domestic supply chainsAdditive manufacturing's role in defense productionLessons learned from working with Air Force and Navy programsSBIR/STTR innovation and technology transitionThe future of the defense industrial baseWhether you're involved in additive manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing, this episode offers valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges shaping the next generation of American manufacturing.Learn more about 3Degrees and TRACEAM: https://www.3degreescompany.comSubscribe for more conversations with leaders across additive manufacturing, materials, and the defense industrial base.#AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting #Defense #DroneTechnology #UAS #DefenseIndustrialBase #AdvancedManufacturing #Manufacturing #Aerospace #SBIR #TRACEAM
In this episode of 3Degrees Discussions, host Mike Vasquez sits down with Jon Walker, a manufacturing industry veteran with more than two decades of experience spanning machining, automation, additive manufacturing, and Industry 4.0.Throughout his career, Jon has held leadership positions with Mazak, GF Machining Solutions, EOS, and Xometry, helping manufacturers evaluate, adopt, and scale advanced manufacturing technologies. His experience provides a unique perspective on how traditional manufacturing and emerging technologies are converging to shape the future of the industry.During the conversation, Jon shares insights from his journey through manufacturing sales and business development, lessons learned from working with companies across aerospace, automotive, and industrial markets, and his perspective on the opportunities and challenges facing manufacturers today. We also discuss additive manufacturing adoption, digital transformation, automation, workforce development, and where Industry 4.0 is delivering real value.Whether you're involved in additive manufacturing, machining, automation, or manufacturing leadership, this episode offers practical insights from someone who has spent his career helping organizations navigate technological change.Topics discussed:Jon's manufacturing career journeyAdditive manufacturing adoption and growthIndustry 4.0 and digital transformationAutomation and advanced manufacturing technologiesSales and business development in manufacturingWorkforce development and industry trendsOpportunities and challenges facing manufacturersLearn more about 3Degrees: www.3degreescompany.com#AdditiveManufacturing #AdvancedManufacturing #Industry40 #Manufacturing #3DPrinting #DigitalManufacturing #Automation #EOS #Xometry #Mazak #ManufacturingLeadership #3DegreesDiscussions
In this episode of 3Degrees Discussions, Mike Vasquez sits down with David Helmers, owner of Wolfpack Workshop, a startup additive manufacturing and engineering company based in Columbus, Ohio.David shares his journey as a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur, drawing on hands-on experience in CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, welding, and design for manufacturing. The conversation explores what it takes to build a business in the additive manufacturing space, lessons learned from practical engineering work, and where David sees opportunities for the next generation of manufacturing innovation.Topics discussed include:• Starting and growing an additive manufacturing business• Practical applications of 3D printing in engineering and production• Design for manufacturing and the role of craftsmanship• Entrepreneurship in manufacturing• Opportunities and challenges in the future of additive manufacturingIf you enjoy conversations with innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in 3D printing, be sure to like, subscribe, and follow 3Degrees Discussions.Learn more at www.3degreescompany.comFor additive manufacturing support, materials qualification, or consulting inquiries: info@3degreescompany.comListen to 3Degrees Discussions on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Stitcher.#AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting #Engineering #Manufacturing #CNCMachining #DesignForManufacturing #Entrepreneurship #MechanicalEngineering #AM #3DegreesDiscussions
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D initiatives.Tune in as we discuss leadership in advanced manufacturing, scaling innovation inside large organizations, and what it really takes to move additive from development to deployment.Subscribe to 3Degrees Discussions wherever you listen to podcasts — including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more.For more episodes and resources, visit:👉 www.3degreescompany.comIf your organization is looking for support in materials, qualification, or additive manufacturing strategy, reach out to the 3Degrees team at info@3degreescompany.com.
D into scalable, production-ready applications with INSPIRE in Switzerland.During our conversation, Daniel offers a candid perspective on the realities of materials commercialization in additive manufacturing, noting that “it typically takes four years and more than two million dollars to transition a new powder concept from early development to full commercial deployment.” We dig into what drives that timeline and cost, where companies tend to underestimate the effort, and how teams can better position new materials for successful scale-up.Before we get started, head over to 3Degrees at www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. You can listen to 3Degrees Discussions wherever you get your podcasts, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Stitcher.If you or your organization are looking for support with materials development, qualification, or broader additive manufacturing strategy, reach out to the 3Degrees team through our website or by email at info@3degreescompany.com.For more episodes, insights, and AM content, visit www.3degreescompany.com.
From South Bend, Indiana, welcome to 3Degrees Discussions. In this episode, Mike sits down with Haden Quinlan, Senior Program Manager at MIT’s Center for Advanced Production Technologies (ADAPT). Haden has been a key force across MIT’s innovation ecosystem—supporting startups, building industry partnerships, and shaping how additive manufacturing and digital production move from research into real-world deployment.We explore his path through MIT, the evolving landscape of AM workforce development, and how universities, industry, and government can better collaborate to accelerate adoption and impact.Connect with Haden on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hquinlan/Before we get started, head over to www.3degreescompany.com to subscribe. You can listen to the show on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if your team needs support with materials, qualification, or AM data and workflow management, reach out at info@3degreescompany.com.Be sure to visit www.3degreescompany.com for more content and episodes.
D, manufacturing operations, and industry partners. Throughout his career, he’s focused on helping organizations understand how manufacturing decisions impact material behavior, structural performance, and long-term reliability.🔗 Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-pegues/Before we get started, head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast.You can listen to 3Degrees Discussions wherever you get your podcasts, including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Stitcher.If you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, or general Additive Manufacturing support, reach out to the 3Degrees team:🌐 Website: https://www.3degreescompany.com📧 Email: info@3degreescompany.comThanks for listening, and enjoy the conversation with Jonathan Pegues.
From South Bend, Indiana—welcome to 3Degrees Discussions. I’m your host, Mike Vasquez. This podcast is dedicated to the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders shaping the 3D printing industry.In this episode, I sit down with Killian Erickson, CEO of Bifrost Manufacturing, an additive and advanced manufacturing company based in North Dakota. With more than a decade of hands-on experience spanning metal and polymer additive, aerospace-grade CNC machining, product design, tooling, and process development, Killian has built Bifrost into a full-service production partner supporting industrial, UAV, and defense applications. We dig into his journey, the challenges of scaling complex manufacturing workflows, and how Bifrost is helping customers move from prototype to production.Before we jump in, head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Stitcher.If you or your company need support with materials, qualification, or general additive manufacturing challenges, reach out anytime via our website or at info@3degreescompany.com.
listenCatch every episode and sign up for updates at www.3degreescompany.com.Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or Stitcher—search 3Degrees Discussions wherever you get your podcasts.Work with usIf your team needs help with materials, qualification, or general Additive Manufacturing support, reach out at info@3degreescompany.com or visit www.3degreescompany.com.Hashtags:#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #DigitalInventory #Industrial3DPrinting #AMStandards #API20S #API20T #SupplyChain #OnDemandParts #ManufacturingTech
From South Bend, Indiana, welcome to 3Degrees Discussions, a podcast devoted to sharing the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in the 3D printing industry.In this episode, host Mike Vasquez sits down with Sabina Kumar, Lead Additive Engineer at Eaton. Sabina brings a deep technical background in materials science and a passion for pushing the boundaries of metal additive manufacturing. Her work focuses on understanding thermo-mechanical effects in titanium alloys and exploring the thermodynamics and phase stability of high-performance metals.Tune in to hear how Sabina’s research and professional experience are driving innovation in aerospace and beyond.🎧 Listen Anywhere: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.🌐 Learn More: www.3degreescompany.com📩 Contact Us: info@3degreescompany.com
the Future of 3D Printing Design | 3Degrees Discussions PodcastIn this episode, Mike Vasquez sits down with Aaron Chow, co-founder and CEO of Vixiv, a Cincinnati-based startup revolutionizing the way engineers design and test 3D-printed parts. With deep experience in electrical engineering and additive manufacturing, Aaron shares how his team is using AI and real-world failure data to optimize complex lattice structures for strength, weight, and performance.We talk about the evolution of Vixiv (formerly Voxel), the challenges of turning physical testing into usable digital insights, and how his work could reshape design-to-manufacture workflows across industries.🎧 Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.🌐 Learn more at: https://www.3degreescompany.com📩 Contact us at: info@3degreescompany.com#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #Vixiv #AI #Engineering #Lattices #AdvancedManufacturing #DesignOptimization #3DegreesDiscussions
From South Bend, Indiana – welcome to 3Degrees Discussions. I’m your host, Mike Vasquez.In this episode, I’m joined by Paweł Slusarczyk, a leading writer, analyst, and consultant in the 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing industry. Paweł is known for reshaping the AM narrative in 2024—challenging assumptions, exposing what others often leave unsaid, and cutting through the hype.He runs The 3D Printing War Journal, contributes to top publications, and has authored thousands of pieces on 3D printing. Beyond his writing, Paweł is a trusted connector, helping companies grow, build partnerships, and access insider knowledge across the AM landscape.Before we dive in, be sure to subscribe at www.3degreescompany.com and follow the podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher.If your company needs support with materials, qualification, or general Additive Manufacturing projects, contact us at info@3degreescompany.com.
🎙️ Welcome to 3Degrees Discussions, a podcast from South Bend, Indiana, hosted by Mike Vasquez.In this episode, we’re joined by Michael Molitch-Hou, Content Strategy and Marketing Manager for Global Advanced Manufacturing Programs at ASTM International. Michael leads communications for the Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) and brings over a decade of 3D printing experience to his role, helping shape the global conversation around advanced manufacturing standards, outreach, and innovation.📢 Don’t forget to subscribe at www.3degreescompany.com and catch every episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.Looking for support with materials, qualification, or additive manufacturing strategy? Reach out to our team at info@3degreescompany.com.#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #Podcast #ASTM #AMCoE #ManufacturingInnovation #3DegreesDiscussions
3Degrees Discussions | Episode 150"The State of 3D Printing, AI, Tariffs — and Mike’s Favorite Movie"Guest Host: Caroline VasquezFor this special 150th episode, the mic gets turned on 3Degrees founder and CEO Mike Vasquez — with his wife, Caroline, leading the conversation. This wide-ranging discussion covers where the 3D printing industry stands today, how tariffs and global dynamics are shaping manufacturing, and the growing influence of AI on design, production, and workflows.And because no milestone episode is complete without a little fun, Caroline also digs into Mike’s all-time favorite movie and what it says about his approach to life and business.A candid, insightful, and personal look at where advanced manufacturing is heading — and what keeps Mike inspired along the way.
From South Bend, Indiana — welcome to 3Degrees Discussions! I’m your host, Mike Vasquez. This podcast dives into the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders shaping the future of the 3D Printing industry.In this episode, we sit down with Laurie Krupa, a seasoned sales leader who has made a major impact in the world of additive manufacturing. Laurie brings years of experience in driving growth and community engagement across the AM sector. She’s also an active force in Women in 3D Printing, organizing events to connect and empower others in the space.🔥 Exciting update — Laurie now runs her own business: Clearlake Insights, where she continues her mission to move the industry forward through strategic insights and partnerships.🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or Stitcher.👉 Subscribe and learn more at: www.3degreescompany.com📬 Looking for support in materials, qualification, or general AM challenges? Contact us at info@3degreescompany.com#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #WomenIn3DPrinting #ClearlakeInsights #Innovation #3DegreesDiscussions #Podcast
Welcome to 3Degrees Discussions, the podcast that brings you the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders shaping the 3D printing industry. Hosted by Mike Vasquez from South Bend, Indiana, we dive into the cutting-edge world of additive manufacturing.In this episode, we sit down with Faisal Iqbal, Head of Digital for Baker Hughes Additive Business Services. I first met Faisal at the ASTM ICAM conference, where he shared valuable insights on how his team is revolutionizing data management. With a career that began at GE, Faisal brings a unique perspective on the intersection of digital transformation and additive manufacturing.Subscribe to 3Degrees Discussions on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or Stitcher. For more content and additive manufacturing expertise, visit www.3degreescompany.com or reach out to our team at info@3degreescompany.com.
3Degrees Discussions is a podcast dedicated to exploring the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in the 3D printing industry. Hosted by Mike Vasquez from South Bend, Indiana, each episode dives into groundbreaking advancements, industry challenges, and the people shaping the future of additive manufacturing.In this episode, we welcome Harshil Goel, an inventor, engineer, and mathematician with degrees in pure mathematics and mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. As the leader of Dyndrite, Harshil is on a mission to revolutionize digital manufacturing through modern software innovations.Subscribe to 3Degrees Discussions at www.3degreescompany.com and listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For additive manufacturing support, materials, and qualification inquiries, contact the team at info@3degreescompany.com.
That was Elissa Ross. Elissa has been working at the intersection of mathematics and manufacturing for the last 15 years. She’s the CEO of Metafold where they’ve created design and engineering software for additive manufacturing. Their team builds ultra-robust, geometric infrastructure for 3D printing and industry 4.0. Today she shares her journey from mathematics to Additive Manufacturing and her entrepreneurial journey along the way. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Nick Sonnentag. Nick founded Sunnyday Technologies in 2023 and converted his basement workshop into a fully-functioning concrete additive manufacturing lab where he works several nights a week to test, create, and modify binder systems for 3D printing. Nick currently works at Oshkosh Corporation where he leads efforts to integrate advanced manufacturing methods and materials into heavy-duty automotive applications with a strong emphasis on large-scale 3D printing technologies. This included work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to investigate and develop a construction 3D printer system for portland cement based mortar. Nick holds a Bachelor of Science in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Mohammad Elahinia. Mohammed is currently serving as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, was most recently the Chair and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME). He serves as Director of the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory at The University of Toledo. He has been on the faculty of UToledo since 2004. Mohammed graduated from Villanova University with an MS degree and from Virginia Tech with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering respectively in 2001 and 2004. Dr. Elahinia’s research interests are in smart and active materials. His current research is focused on additive manufacturing of functional materials such as shape memory alloys for aerospace and biomedical application. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.comBe sure to check out our website www.3degreescompany.com for more content.
That was Mohsen Taheri Andani. Mohsen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, with a courtesy appointment in Materials Science & Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Amit Misra. His research focuses on establishing the inter-relationship between processing, microstructure, and properties in metallic materials. Mohsen has worked on several material characterization projects and has published over 35 journal articles in the areas of metal additive manufacturing, materials characterization, and mechanical properties of materialsBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.comBe sure to check out our website www.3degreescompany.com for more content.
More info: www.3degreescompany.comQuick recapIn the meeting, Mike and Jack discussed a new series of interviews highlighting professionals in various fields. The first interviewee, Jack, detailed his career path in 3D printing and custom orthotics at Sure Step, a company founded by his father. The discussion also covered the integration of 3D printing into traditional manufacturing processes, the skills required for success in a lab environment, and future advancements in 3D printing technology.
That was Andy Davis. Andy spent most of his 19 years with the Army working in and around manufacturing technology and the defense industrial base. In his role with the Department of Defense (DoD), Andy was part of the team that responded to the White House call to establish the Manufacturing USA institutes, championed the initial Army, and eventually DoD-wide additive manufacturing technology roadmaps; and convened key Army AM leaders to form the Army’s AM Community of Practice (CoP), all leading to a more coordinated and collaborative strategy behind the Army’s advanced manufacturing investments. His last position with the DoD, prior to joining TBGA, was as the Deputy Director and Chief Technology Officer of the Industrial Base Analysis & Sustainment (IBAS) programBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Matt Donovan. Matt has had a long and successful career in the Additive Manufacturing sector going back to the early days of the technology. He started his career as a Manufacturing Engineering and he shares his story today on the winding paths he’s taken in the world of 3D Printing.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Sarah Jordan. Sarah is a metallurgical engineer and materials scientist who is passionate about solving problems, process improvement, and process efficiency. She has worked in metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) since 2015. Sarah is currently focused on developing a new hybrid process called additive manufacturing evaporative casting (AMEC) at her company Skuld Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Steven Szymeczek. Steven is a mechanical engineer with more than 12 years of experience across aerospace, oil & gas, consumer, and medical device industries. His broad areas of expertise include product development, engineering, and implementing design for traditional & Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing strategies.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Jordan Weston. Jordan is now a full time employee with the Additive Manufacturing Users Group conference having previously spent a number of years supporting and leading AM efforts at the Milwaukee School of EngineeringBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.comBe sure to check out our website www.3degreescompany.com for more content.
Dr. Frazier founded Pilgrim Consulting LLC following a successful 39 year long career within the Department of the Navy. Upon retiring, he held the positions of “The Navy Senior Scientist for Materials Engineering,” and “The Chief Scientist for the Air Vehicle Department” at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Dr. Bill Frazier received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from Drexel UniversityBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Tali Rosman. Tali is a recognized business leader in the AM space having worked on multiple deals through out the sector. In today’s episode she shares her career journey with stops along the way at Stratasys and Xerox.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Faith Oehlerking. She’s works in Manufacturing Programs for Beehive Industries. Her experience has been working in the aviation and additive manufacturing industry with a focus in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF). She has a bachelor of science degree focused in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.comBe sure to check out our website www.3degreescompany.com for more content.
That was Janet Dickinson. She is the CRO at Endeavor 3D. They have built a contract manufacturing business from the ground up and she joins the show today to talk about that journey and the challenges the team has overcome to make a successful business in AM.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.comBe sure to check out our website www.3degreescompany.com for more content.
That was Amy Alexander. Amy is a Unit Head of Biomechanical Development & Applied Computational Engineering at the Mayo Clinic Division of Engineering. She joins the show today to share her journey in additive manufacturing and its impact on the medical sector. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was David Scannapieco. David is the Scientific Development Management Manager at NSL Analytical. David Experienced Researcher with an interest in mechanical characterization, reliability testing of materials, and the development of novel metallic materials through additive manufacturingBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Abdalla Nassar. Abdalla is Expert in Advanced & Additive Manufacturing with a decade of experience developing & leading cross-disciplinary R&D Programs spanning MRL and TRL Levels. Abdalla spent a number of years as a professor at Penn State and is now the Enterprise Additive Manufacturing Lead at John DeereBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Jeff Grabowski. Jeff is recognized as an international thought leader in advanced materials design and commercialization across key industries, including space, aerospace, medical device, automotive, high performance racing, energy, consumer electronics and others. In his current role as Manager of Business Development for QuesTek Innovations, Jeff is at the forefront of identifying the most pressing materials challenges faced by industry, and arriving at solutions by leveraging QuesTek’s materials experts and proprietary Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) technologies. The result is optimization of legacy alloys and the design of novel, high-performance materials that meet mission-specific properties, solving real world materials challenges and creating game-changing products. This enables QuesTek clients to increase their competitive edge and bring new products to market.He is actively helping to develop and execute QuesTek’s strategy for a complete "Materials Digital Transformation" of its business in partnership with the world’s most innovative materials producers and material end-users.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Niall O’Dowd. Niall is the founder of Phase3D a company providing solutions for part monitoring and process control for additive manufacturing. Nial completed his PhD in Structural Engineering from University of California San Diego.
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That was Yash Parikh. Yash is a process engineering consultant at EOS North America. In this role, his primary responsibility is to provide guidance and support to EOS consumers in effectively implementing AM technology within their organizations.
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That was David Tucker and Kristin Mulherin. Combined these two have years of AM experience and over the past several months have worked together to create the ImplmentAM workshop series across the country. This episode features the story of how these workshops came to be and the gap they saw in the AM event circuit.
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Emil Johansson is the CPO and co-founder of the French-Swedish startup ADAXIS. ADAXIS is building software with the aim to revolutionize the manufacturing industry by making it effortless to use robotic arms as flexible 3D printers for plastics, composites, metals, and concrete parts. Their vision is to become the key enabler for a resilient and localized manufacturing ecosystem by combining robotics with modern process technologies.
Emil has an extensive background working with additive manufacturing at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. He has coordinated both national and international research projects with a main focus on development of new innovative 3D printing technologies.
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John Middendorf is highly regarded in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, with expertise in development of AM machines and unique capabilities, such as multimaterial laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), hybrid additive/subtractive LPBF, and advanced in situ sensing. He most recently served as director of Open Additive, a leader in advanced metal LPBF AM systems.
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That was Patrick Kuballa. Patrick is a senior formulator for Tiger Coatings in Austria. He has spent the last several years developing, testing, and commercializing new polymers for Additive manufacturing in both the laser powder bed fusion space as well as the composites industry.
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That was Ryan Hayford. Ryan is a marketing and business development expert in the AM industry. With over a decade of experience working with major hardware, software, materials, and service organizations, Ryan is constantly involved in a wide variety of projects and currently offers contract marketing and consulting services through his business, Hayford ConsultingBefore we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Robert Higham. Robert launched Additive Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. (AMS) in 2017. He is a Chartered Engineer and has experience across academia, motorsport, space and aerospace. Robert was responsible for qualification of materials, processes and parts produced by additive manufacturing most recently for Airbus before creating AMS. AMS was designed and aims to bring aerospace grade qualification, validation and operation capability to all corners of industry and at its core aims to support the industrialization of additive manufacturing. To do this heis building a team that uses his experiences to support AM strategy, validation and training. Most recently AMS has launched an agile R&D service to bring knowledge, capability and outputs of an aerospace level R&D lab to any customer. This is done via the AMS Partner Network to bring a breadth of capability without the need for a single large entity.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Sarat Babu is an expert in combining materials science and design when it comes at Additive Manufacturing. We actually met back in the 2010s while we were both in the UK and he was working on his company Betatype. He’s got great insights and perspectives on the industry and where it is going. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Elizabeth Henry is the founder of Henry General Strategies a consulting firm focused on strategies for the business side of scaling emerging technologies – like additive manufacturing -to reach industrial manufacturing scale.Rooted in strategic communications, Liz brings nearly twenty years of industry, government, and coaching experience as a partner to high-performing organizations in emerging technologies to lead the team at HGS.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
From Chicago welcome to 3Degrees Discussions. I’m your host Mike Vasquez.This is a podcast devoted to the stories behind the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in the 3D Printing industry.That was Jeph Ruppert. Jeph is a director with 3D Systems’ Application Innovation Group (AIG) – a team comprised of engineers, designers and technicians that collaborates with the company’s customers to architect bespoke additive manufacturing solutions and applications. Renowned for his expertise in process control, validation and characterization using metal AM within the medical device and other critical application industries, Jeph has supported the manufacture of more than 2 million medical devices to date and more than 100 customer 510(k) and CE marks. He is a key contributor to regulatory organizations, providing guidance which is helping to shape industry standards.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was LJ Holmes. LJ is the Executive Director of Advanced Manufacturing at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. LJ has many years of Additive Manufacturing experience including time in the Army Research Lab. He continues to be active in maturing defense-related manufacturing projects through his work with Astro America. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
That was Anthony Mott is an Additive Manufacturing leader at Wabtec. Currently, he and is team are depoloying AM solutions to the rail industry. Anthony is a Penn State grade and throughout his AM career has spent time at RP+M as well as GE. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
David Leigh has been involved in the 3D Printing space for over 30 years. His background in materials started him down the path of AM first through his work at DTM and ultimately the founding, growth and sale of Harvest Technologies (an early SLS service bureau). From there he has spent time at Stratasys, EOS, and 3D Systems. Today he shares some of those stories along with lessons learned. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Dr. Agustin Diaz is part of the R&D Department at REM Surface Engineering, serving as the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Manager overseeing Research Chemists and Additive Manufacturing Scientists. Over the last eight years, he has worked on the optimization of post-process surface finishing of metal additive manufactured (AM) components using REM’s chemically accelerated finishing technologies. Agustin is a leading expert in the surface classification and post-processing of metal AM components and has expertise in new technology development for the surface finishing of metal components. He is the author of more than twenty technical papers and patents. In addition, he is the Co-Founder and Marketing Editor of the LatinX Can Podcast (LatinXCan.com), a bi-weekly podcast series that talks to LatinX professionals while they share their experiences about how they turned their professional dream into reality in USA.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Omer Blaier is the CEO and Co-Founder of CASTOR. Castor is a software tool that automatically runs analysis to determine 3D printability for end-use parts design, chooses the suitable technology for print while maintaining functionality, and turns multiple parts into one to maximize manufacturing possibilities for unique designs. We discuss his entrepreneurial journey and what’s ahead for the AM sector. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Jeff Williams is the Founder and CTO of Exum. He has a Masters in Cosmochemsitry from the University of New Mexico. During his time as a research scientist he became immersed in the challenges of analytical instrumentation and began his entrepreneurial journey to improve the ways in which we understand and characterize materials. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Nima Shamsaei is currently the Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University, where he is also the founding director of the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME), a NASA and NIST funded research center focused on advancing the additive manufacturing (AM) technology. NCAME is also one of the two U.S.-based founding partners of the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE). Prior to joining academia, Dr. Shamsaei spent many years in industry, including leadership positions, specializing in fatigue analysis and durability test development. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Philip Lund-Nielsen is the Co-Founder of COBOD International, a global leader in 3D construction printers, with investors General Electric, Holcim, CEMEX, and PERI Group. He manages the companies activities in North & Latin America. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Eliana Fu is industry manager of aerospace and medical at the Trumpf Laser Technology Center. She was educated at Imperial College, University of London with a master’s degree and PhD in materials science. After working extensively in the traditional manufacturing world, with TWI then TIMET and SpaceX, she turned her attention to additive manufacturing at SpaceX and then with Relativity Space as senior engineer: additive technologies. She also serves as Women in 3D Printing ambassador for Las Vegas and is the recipient of the TCT Women in 3D Printing Award for 2022. Before we get started head over to http://www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support, reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Onome Scott-Emukapor is currently the founder of Hypen Innovations, a company he started based on work he started at the Air Force Research Lab on gas turbine engine designs. Onome received his B.S. from Wright State University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering while competing in the Men’s Basketball Team. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University.Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher. Also, if you or your company are looking for materials, qualification, and or general Additive Manufacturing support. Reach out to the team through our website or via email at info@3degreescompany.com
Travis Mayberry is the Technical Area Lead for Additive Manufacturing at Raytheon Missiles and Defense. He has been with Raytheon for 13 years and recently graduated with his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University through the Raytheon Advanced Studies Program while working part-time. He has a background in design, thermal system architecture, and metal additive manufacturing. He currently leads the Additive Manufacturing Internal Research and Development efforts for Raytheon Missiles and Defense, and is involved in a number of cross-Raytheon Technologies efforts in additive. He has presented over 60 technical presentations internally and externally, and holds 13 patents and 4 trade secrets with Raytheon.
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Mark is an Additive Manufacturing and Molding Engineering Manager at Ricoh. Mark has a background in Mechanical Engineering from Wolverhampton University. He has spent much of his career at Ricoh working with both traditional and additive manufacturing processes.
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That was Will Cuervo. William has been in Additive Manufacturing for 5 years and is currently the Sr. Business Development Manager at 3YOURMIND. He also serves as an Ambassador for the Additive Manufacturing Coalition. At 3YOURMIND he is responsible for the business development strategy for enterprise companies and the federal government. William started his career as an AM Technician at Sintavia, where he learned the ins-and-outs of AM Operations for Aerospace, Space, and Defense applications.'
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That was Behrang Poorganji. Behrang is the VP of Materials Technology at Morf3d. He holds a PhD in metallurgy and materials processing from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and he has spent his career working in advanced metallic materials processing. He has worked as a senior advisor and consultant, helping to drive the adoption of AM in both domestic and international markets. Before Morf3D, he served as Professor and Director of Advanced Manufacturing at The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA.
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After graduating from MIT in Aero/Astro Engineering, Mark joined Rolls Royce working on air breathing rocket engines, before moving to his father’s machine shop, Jet Blades. Mark worked his way from CAD/CAM programmer to Managing Director, making parts for Formula 1 teams and Rolls Royce jet engines.
After emigrating to Canada, he provided hands-on coaching for companies introducing advanced manufacturing, as well as teaching Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Mark joined Renishaw in 2013 to head their new Canadian additive manufacturing business and start up their first North American Solutions Centre. In 2020 Mark moved to the University of Waterloo’s Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing lab to lead industry outreach and training in additive manufacturing.
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Jimmy Campbell is the CTO of Plastometrex, who provide novel mechanical testing solutions for metallic materials. Jimmy has a PhD and undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. His PhD focussed on experimental and computational development for the PIP method, which extracts full stress-strain curves (including yield stress and UTS) from a simple indentation test. He has published more than 15 papers in scientific literature, including one identifying a fundamental flaw in an analytical calculation used extensively in the indentation community, is the co-inventor on 3 patents and co-author of a book titled 'Testing of the Plastic Deformation of Metals.
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That was Chris Prue. Chris is a Change Agent and Engineering Leader. He is currently the Applications Development Manager at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, OH. Chris has over 11 years in the additive manufacturing industry and is experienced in machine and process development across several OEM platforms. He also leads teams in the startup of Agile Project management practices to deliver collaboration and transparency. His passion for materials and research has led him into grow within several dynamic teams. Chris resides in West Chester, OH and outside of the office enjoys the outdoors and growing hot peppers to turn into spicy powders or hot sauces to share with anyone who has a curiosity.
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This Episode my wife, Caroline Vasquez comes back to the show following her debut as host in Episode 50. We catch up on the latest happenings in the industry, reflect on the previous 99 shows and have a few special guests at the end asking some hard hitting questions.
Thanks to all the guest and listeners that have supported the show the last few years.
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Jeff Degrange is the Chief Commercial Officer of Impossible Objects. Jeff was formerly a Vice President at Stratasys. Prior to Stratasys, Jeff was with the Boeing Company where he led the certification and qualification of flight hardware built with different additive manufacturing technologies for the F/A-18 Super Hornet and 787 aircraft programs and advanced manufacturing initiatives. Jeff is one of the founders and past chairman of the Direct Manufacturing Research Center (DMRC) at Paderborn University in Germany and serves on several industry advisory boards. Jeff has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
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That was Scott Volk. Besides being the first professional paintball player and bull-rider we’ve had on the podcast, Scott is the Vice President of Business Development & Strategy at Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing. Scott’s career has spanned over 30 years in the AM industry including stops at Incodema3D, GPI, and Laser Molding. In addition to his day job at KAM, Scott has also started his own 3D Printing polymer business called Advanced Additive Innovations.
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That was Craig Beaumier. Craig is the Director of Business Development at Accurate Brazing. Craig’s career spans all forms and facets of business development and sales. And, he has worked in companies of all sizes – from mom & pop operations to Fortune 10 companies. He is a military veteran and joins the show today to talk about the importance of thermal post processing in metal Additive Manufacturing.
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Ajay Krishnan is the Research Leader of EWI’s Additive Manufacturing Group, and Product owner of EWI's laser powder bed fusion practice.
His responsibilities as Research Leader span Business Development, R&D management, and Technology Strategy of EWI’s AM portfolio.
His technical role is that of a systems engineer in Additive Manufacturing - working across Materials, Processes, Monitoring & Control, and Data Science.
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Sarah Jordan is a metallurgical engineer and materials scientist who is passionate about solving problems, process improvement, and process efficiency.
She has worked in metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) since 2015. Sarah is currently focused on developing a new hybrid process called additive manufacturing evaporative casting (AMEC) at her company Skuld
The goal is a toolingless process that gives large precision complex shapes, known properties, 100X faster speeds, and system that is 90% cheaper. They also have a couple other materials technologies we are working to commercialize including lightweighting and surface hardening.
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Dr. Ed Herderick is the Director of Additive at The Ohio State University Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence. He previously worked for GE as Global Sales Leader for Portables NDT at GE Inspection Technologies and was the Additive Technologies Leader for GE Corporate Supply Chain and Operations. He has also served as Director of R&D at additive startup rp+m and was Director of the Additive Manufacturing Consortium operated by EWI. He served as an AAAS Congressional Fellow in the office of Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. He received his PhD in MSE from The Ohio State University.
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Don Godfrey is a Sr. Fellow of Aerospace and Department of Defense Additive Strategy at SLM Solutions. He is a globally recognized authority on additive manufacturing. Donald spent 14 years at Honeywell Aerospace and is recognized as the person that led the incorporation of metal printing within that company. He incorporated additive manufacturing technology for Honeywell locations in China, Czech Republic, India, Mexico and three printing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona with one being a reactive metals production facility and another being a nickel alloy production facility.
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Tyler Lebrun is a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Additive Manufacturing Lead at Sandia National Labs where he is focused on all aspects of AM technology and research. He has an extensive background in aerospace having spent time at Aerojet Rocketdyne as well as Blue Origin. Tyler is also heavily involved in the development of standards for the 3D Printing industry and shares some of the behind the scenes work that goes on to help industrialize the technology.
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Lester has been in the additive manufacturing space for nearly 20 years, much of that time spent working for the US Army. He joins the show today to share his experiences working hands on with the technology and developing new products, materials, and approaches to improve 3D Printing. Lester is currently an application consultant at Dymansion where he supports customers working to improve the surface finish and appearance of their 3D Printed part.
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Mike Smith is a Prototype/Design engineer at Big Ass Fans in Kentucky. He joins the show today to talk about his career in Additive Manufacturing. He shares some insight and great advice on how to search for and implement 3D Printing applications within an organization that may not be accustomed to the technology.
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Ankush Venkatesh is the Intrapreneur for Additive Manufacturing at Glidewell Dental Laboratories. In addition to writing for Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Ankush has also been speaker at 3D printing events like Formnext and AM Strategies. Prior to his role at Glidewell, he was a Strategy Fellow at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In that time, he specialized in digital strategy and Industry 4.0 technologies like additive manufacturing (3D printing), IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), artificial intelligence/machine learning and digital twins.
He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master's Degree in Engineering Management with a focus on product development and 3D printing. He is a former technology consultant, having spent two years with Capgemini Consulting serving billion-dollar clients in the FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) industry in the functions of data analytics, dynamic dashboards and SAP data migration.
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Haleyanne Freedman is a Business Development and Engineering Professional with a demonstrated history of working in a variety of industries and specializing in Additive Manufacturing. She has accumulated skills in application development, material specification and design for additive manufacturing. She currently is the Global Engineering Business Manager for 3D Printing at M. Holland Company.
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Nick Pearce is a Recruitment Entrepreneur, Founder and Director of Alexander Daniels Global and a Co-Founder of the broader Alexander Daniels Recruitment Group.
The mission of Alexander Daniels Global is to enable the industrial revolution in additive and advanced manufacturing through talent. They work with the innovators and developers of additive manufacturing technology, materials and software to identify, engage, attract and recruit the professionals they need to achieve their strategic objectives.
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That was Melanie Lang. Melanie is the co-founder and CEO of FormAlloy. Prior to FormAlloy, Melanie had over 15 years’ experience as an engineer and program manager with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. She holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and M.S. in Systems Architecture & Engineering from the University of Southern California. In addition to her role at FormAlloy, Melanie as a Women in 3D Printing Ambassador and is an active America Makes Executive Committee member.
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Kirk Rogers is a Technical Excellence Leader at the Barnes Global Advisors. For the last ten years, Kirk has used additive technologies to solve manufacturing, repair, and supply chain problems. He recently was the technical leader on the startup of a $40M Additive Manufacturing R&D center, culminating a nearly 20-year career at GE. Most of Kirk’s career has been in the medical device manufacturing realm, where he built manufacturing lines for and qualified numerous products. Kirk has 25 years of experience in materials processing and business strategy. Kirk obtained his B.S. Materials Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University. He completed postdoctoral work at The Ohio State University and is a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt.
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Jason Reason is a widely recognized expert in safety and health with a special emphasis on combustible dust and industrial hygiene. Jason has performed hundreds of Dust Hazard Analysis for all types of combustible dust s in a myriad of industries. Her serves on a total of six technical committees and actively coordinates efforts to reshape combustible dust, safety, and health standards. While serving on these committees Jason has written several new requirements to address serious combustible dust hazards including developing new requirements for DHA’s in NFPA 652 and Additive Manufacturing in NFPA 484 and the International Fire Code.
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James Hedrick is currently the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Azul 3D, which is commercializing the first 3D printing technology capable of competing with the speed, strength, and economy of scale of injection molding.
James started his first company at the age of 16. The profits paid for his college tuition at MIT, where he was also a NCAA student athlete. He went on to receive his PhD at Northwestern University with Professor Mirkin, during which he developed seminal technology at the core of Azul 3D. He was both a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate and Ryan Fellow. Dr. Hedrick has authored 16 manuscripts and has 5 patents. He was also named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2020.
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That was Gregor Reischle. After extensive experience in the AM industry Gregor recently started his own consulting company called AM-Entrepreneur. Gregor started his career in the manufacturing space in the dental industry. He spent a number of years at EOS working as an application engineer and AM consultant. From there he moved on to TUV SUD to be the Global Head of Industrial Additive Manufacturing.
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Justin Michaud is the CEO and President of REM Surface Engineering. They specialize in finishing manufactured parts and joins the show today to talk about the history of the company as well as their work in 3D Printing.
Justin has worked in all business segments of the REM organization and has specific domain expertise in the metal AM industry, the wind turbine gearbox OEM and repair industries, and the general gear industry. Justin serves on the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) Emerging Technology Committee. Justin is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
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Craig Brice is a Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. He is currently the director of the Advanced Manufacturing Program, which focuses on undergraduate and graduate education in additive manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing techniques. He is also involved in additive manufacturing research with the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) at Mines and serves as the director for the ADAPT consortium. Dr. Brice has been working in additive manufacturing for over 20 years, beginning with the first commercially available AM system sold by Optomec in 1998. He has spent his entire professional career working in additive manufacturing with time spent at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works), Lockheed Martin Space Advanced Technology Center, and NASA Langley Research Center.
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Ryan Kircher is Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer at RMS. Ryan is an experienced metallurgist with a demonstrated history of working in the Additive Manufacturing industry. He has had extensive career working in the 3D Printing sector with stints at Lockheed Martin, Medical Modeling, 3D Systems, his own consulting company, and now RMS. Ryan has a ton of shop floor experience developing medical device solutions and is certainly one of the most knowledgeable experts out there on building and qualifying medical devices using metal additive Manufacturing.
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Paul Bates is an Additive Manufacturing Lead Project Engineer at ASTM. He is an experienced practitioner of the safe use of additive manufacturing in both a commercial space and training space. Paul has used most every form of 3D printing in the last 20 years, to develop both prototype and finished goods. He has developed business justifications for the use of these technologies as well as designed and built the facilities to house them through his work at Reebok, UL, and now ASTM.
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Juan Vega is an Undergraduate Engineering Lecturer at University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. Juan has had a passion for Additive Manufacturing for a number of years and is in the process of looking for PhD opportunities in the space. I thought it would be insightful to have him on the show today to hear his perspectives on getting traction within the AM space coming from South America.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanvegafarje/
Andrew Roderick is a Senior Applications Engineer at Extol. Extol is a manufacturing technology company that improves the way plastic products are made. They provide plastic assembly technology, custom automation, and engineering services. From humble beginnings in 1985, Extol has become a recognized supplier of high quality, standard and custom plastics-joining equipment. Approximately 90 employees work in their 53,400 square foot facility located in Zeeland, Michigan. Andrew joins the show to talk about their use of MJF technology and gives me a lesson on the variety of ways that plastic parts can be joined together to make seamless assemblies.
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https://www.extolinc.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-roderick/
Ben DiMarco is a research specialist at The Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence at the Ohio State University. Before OSU Ben spent eight years at the Honda R&D Americas as an Additive Manufacturing Process Engineering and Project leader. He joins the show today to discuss his approach to AM education and the cutting edge research going on at the CDME.
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https://cdme.osu.edu/news/2021/10/meet-team-research-specialist-ben-dimarco
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdimarco50/
Joy Gockel is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and her research spans several aspects of additive manufacturing (AM). She joined Mines from Wright State University where she was an assistant professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Prior to her faculty position, she was a Lead Engineer at GE Aviation’s Additive Technology Center. She earned her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and received her BS and MS degrees from Wright State University. She has been awarded the 2020 ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award, and the 2021 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/joygockel/
Callie Higgins is a scientist at the National Institute of Science and Technology where she focuses on photopolymer additive manufacturing. Her work focuses on using atomic force microscopy to detect and remedy flaws in additive manufactured parts. This research was highlighted earlier in the year when Callie was awarded the Service to America Medal for an Emerging Leader.
Callie has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Optics/Optical Sciences and Material Science from University of Colorado Boulder and recently took a position as an adjunct professor at Colorado School of Mines.
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https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/callie-higgins/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/calliehiggins/
Bill Bihlman is the Founder of Aerolytics. The company’s focus is to improve market share and revenue for aerospace suppliers, from mill/forgers, to fabricators, assemblers and distributors. Bill started his career in 1995 as an engineer with Raytheon Aircraft.
More recently, Bill was Senior Consultant with AeroStrategy. He spent four years working in the US office and was actively involved in over 30 projects. He led multiple engagements and was responsible for two major intellectual property initiatives, including the Aerospace Raw Materials (ARM) model.
Bill is a regular conference speaker, and has spoken throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Topics include raw materials, manufacturing, and supply chain. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, as well as an MBA and MPA from Cornell University.
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https://www.aerolyticsllc.com/about
That was Marcus Pont. Marucs is the CEO and founder of Domin. Domin Fluid Power is a product development company specialising in the development of fluid power subsystems and systems manufacturing through the utilisation of both subtractive and additive manufacturing, specifically DMLS (Metal 3D Printing). Within Domin, Marcus manages key aspects of the product development process from fundamental knowledge of the technology through to financing the R&D of new products and technology and managing the strategy of Domin Fluid Power.
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https://domin.co/
That was Mark Norfolk. Mark has over a decade of experience in manufacturing, R&D, and shop floor management. He leads Fabrisonic in the commercialization of Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) Technology. Mark led EWI’s development and research into UAM for four years leading up to the inception of Fabrisionic and has been with the company ever since. Prior to joining EWI, he held numerous manufacturing and management positions at Deere & Company in Moline, Il. Mark holds an MBA from The University of Iowa and a Bachelors of Science in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University.
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https://fabrisonic.com/
Brad Rothenberg is the CEO & founder of nTopology, a startup developing Generative-Functional CAD software based in New York City. Prior to founding nTopology, Bradley graduated with honors studying Architecture at Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York. Brad has been developing computational design tools for advanced manufacturing for 10+ years.
https://ntopology.com/
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Dr. Enrico Gallino is an Additive manufacturing materials specialist at Ricoh UK. He has a background in material science and polymers with experience in R&D, product development and technical support across different sectors (academia, energy, cosmetics, steel industry, additive manufacturing). He joins the show today to talk about his career and the variety of printer modalities and materials that he’s working on at Ricoh.
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https://rapidfab.ricoh-europe.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/enricogallino/
Brent Stucker, PhD is the Senior Vice President & Chief Scientist at 3D Systems.
Prior to joining 3D Systems, Brent was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Additive Manufacturing at Ansys. 3DSIM, the company Brent Co-Founded & led as CEO, was acquired by ANSYS in November 2017.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-stucker/
Brent led the establishment of ASTM Int'l Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies (and its partnership with ISO TC261), was the first Chair from 2009-2014, and was elected to the ASTM Int'l Board of Directors from 2015-2017. Brent has been a leading researcher in AM for more than 25 years, with projects ranging from new materials development for biomedical implants and aerospace/defense structures to multi-scale modeling and control of AM machines. He was a professor from 1997-2015, with appointments at Univ. of Louisville, Utah State Univ., Univ. of Rhode Island and VTT Technical Research Center, Finland.
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Jason Lopes is currently a Global Market Development Engineer at Carbon. He specializes in custom workflows for integrating with 3D Printing technologies.
Having worked as a systems engineer for over 10 years automating and processing massive amounts of 2D & 3D data for Visual Effects and Animation he has bridged these skill sets with designing for Additive Manufacturing since 2007 with Carbon, Legacy Effects and Stan Winston studios.
He’s also been recognized as an AMUG Distinguished Innovator (DINO).
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Mark Barfoot has deep roots in the AM community. He spearheaded the use of AM at Christie Digital Systems where, in addition to growing the AM engineering team, he developed the company’s Hyphen business which provides additive manufacturing and testing services to local companies. He is extensively involved with the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) and is a former president of the group.
Currently, Mark oversees EWI’s growing additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives and helps EWI develop new AM technology opportunities. He directs the Additive Manufacturing Consortium (AMC), a national consortium of industry, government, academic and non-profit research organizations operated by EWI.
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Today we have a special episode featuring students from the inaugural 3Degrees AMx – Advanced Manufacturing Experience.
Working with local community group West Side Forward, this course aimed to bring the excitement and opportunity of jobs in the advanced manufacturing sector to underserved communities. The 3D Printing industry has grown up to 30% over the past five years, adding thousands of new-collar jobs to the American workforce. Yet just because the additive manufacturing industry has jobs, it doesn’t mean there isn’t difficulty filling them. New collar positions, like the ones created by industrial 3D Printing, value technical skills over college degrees— something difficult to find in today’s workforce. 3Degrees is working to solve this problem.
I’ve seen this first-hand as an entrepreneur running two companies that help large manufacturing organizations (e.g., government, aerospace, automotive) implement 3D Printing technology. My clients tell me time and again that they have well-paying, benefit-eligible jobs that they cannot fill. It seems the US has forgotten how to train its workforce for today’s jobs that do not require a college degree.” “On the flip side, access to finding jobs in this industry is not straight forward. Most of these companies are small (100 employees) and unless you have some network or understanding of the industry you may not know what’s happening in the white, non-descript, windowless buildings on the side of the highway.’
The pilot course was a combination of in person instruction, tours of leading 3D Printing facilities like Renishaw, Impossible Objects, and mHub as well as mentors from across the industry (Siemens Energy, EOS, Desktop Metal, Met-l-Flo, Dyndrite, Forecast3D). Throughout the duration of the course, the class got to trial different technologies and design their own parts using the Future of Jewelry online software. Students had the opportunity to receive the Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) certification from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and America Makes upon completing the course. The program culminated with a guided tour of North America’s largest 3D Printing trade show Rapid.
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Daniel Herrington is the founder & CEO of Voxel Innovations, a manufacturing company based out of Raleigh, NC. Voxel is a pioneer in pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), an efficient, accurate and specialized approach to machining high-quality metal components for medical, aerospace, energy and other industries. Before starting his own company, Daniel worked as a professional racecar driver in both the Indy Pro and Grand Am series. He also spent several years with the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) in Washington, D.C. and worked as an independent advanced manufacturing consultant.
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https://www.voxelinnovations.com/education https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-herrington/
Casey Melvin and her sister Janine are two dynamic, entrepreneurial sisters who co-founded THEFUTUREOFJEWELRY. The “Warby Parker of Jewelry” is a full-service digital jewelry design house and manufacturer. TFOJ specializes in creating the digital software infrastructure and physical supply chain for designing, creating, and finishing custom jewelry pieces in a wide variety of materials. The company, established by the sisters in early 2017, was founded to make jewelry customization easier, more affordable, and accessible for all.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseymelvin/ https://thefutureofjewelry.com/
Chris Yakacki is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the President and CTO of Impressio Inc., a start-up company focused on commercializing liquid-crystal elastomer technology, which was spun-out of and licensed from the university.
From an academic standpoint, his goal is to develop a world-class research group as part of the Smart Materials and Biomechanics (SMAB) Lab. One theme of the SMAB Lab is to focus on the development and application of multi-functional smart materials with an emphasis on biomedical devices.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopheryakacki/ https://www.impressio.tech/
Kareem Aggour is a Principal Scientist in the AI technology discipline at GE Research. He joined GE in 1998 and transferred to GE Research in 2000. Kareem develops Big Data and knowledge discovery solutions to solve a wide range of digital industrial challenges. For example, he led the development of a scalable Big Data infrastructure accelerating Aviation Digital Twin analytic executions by 100-2,000x. In addition, Kareem led the development of a Big Data platform reducing the runtime of next-generation DNA sequencing data analysis pipelines from weeks to hours. Currently, he is working with GE Additive leading the development of a knowledge-driven federated Big Data storage and analytics platform for capturing and analyzing data across the additive manufacturing lifecycle. Kareem and I met through the Common Data Model working group, in which he is leading one of the industry efforts to standardize the organization and dissemination of 3D Printing data. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher.
https://www.ge.com/research/people/kareem-aggour
Michael Cao founded IC3D in 2012 as a 3D printer design and manufacturing company. IC3D is one of the first 3D printer companies to manufacture their own line of 3D printing filament in-house. For 13 years Michael was a senior mechanical engineer at Honda R&D where he has earned several automotive patents and designs interiors for future products. Michael started his Honda career in 2003 after completing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Oklahoma. While at OU, Michael led the Formula SAE team to design and build race cars for the annual collegiate level competition. Michael was also led the Honda team to redesign the interior of the Acura NSX.
He joins the show today to talk through his journey as an entrepreneur and how IC3D is building a fully end to end materials and manufacturing company.
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https://www.ic3dprinters.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcao08/
Yannick Willemin is into innovation and technology topics with deep experience in the composite and advanced materials field. He has both an engineering degree in mechanics and an MBA in entrepreneurship. During his 13 years at SGL Carbon, he acquired both composites and managerial experience through his roles in R&D, Sales, Procurement, and Innovation Strategy. In January 2020, he joined 9T Labs as Head of Marketing & Business Development.
He joins the show today to talk about composite manufacturing and 3D Printing
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannickwillemin/ https://www.9tlabs.com/
Andy Gleadall is a Senior Lecturer in Additive Manufacturing at Loughborough University. Since joining Loughborough University in 2017, his research has focused on material extrusion additive manufacturing in several areas, all enabled by microscale control of the print path.
He developed and wrote open-source piece of software called, FullControl GCode Designer, to allow precise design for additive manufacturing - www.fullcontrolgcode.com. FullControl was originally created for in-house research activities but is now freely available to progress research into material extrusion additive manufacturing. It’s been used for a wide range of applications including process calibration, material characterization, tissue engineering, 3D printed electronics, pharmaceuticals, microfluidics, prosthetics, artistic creation, and to control auxiliary equipment for in-process monitoring. He strives to use rigorous engineering research to drive additive manufacturing and medical manufacturing beyond the current state-of-the-art.
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https://www.lboro.ac.uk/?external https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/meme/staff/andrew-gleadall/
Paul Wilson is part of the Boeing Research and Technology Metallic Materials and Processes Team in St. Louis, Missouri. The focus of his work is finding, developing, and implementing novel alloys and processes for aircraft programs. Currently he is working on creating additive manufacturing processes and novel additive alloys for enterprise deployment
Paul joins the show today to talk metal materials in AM as well as the process of qualifying these materials for aerospace applications.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-wilson-06855913/
John Sorvillo is a licensed elementary school teacher who has been in educational administration for nearly a decade. At the Westwood Preparatory Academy, the students are in residential care, most under court custody with no familial provisions. As a director at the academy, Sorvillo builds programs, teaches, and counsels with the goal of inspiring hope through education. Initially, the academy had one 3D printer, but it struggled to incorporate it into instructional lessons. With John’s efforts, it now has four printers that function as conduits for experiencing life skills, such as teamwork; acquiring technology skills, such as CAD design; and gaining ‘soft skills’ needed to function in society.
He joins the show today to talk about how his 3D printing program has played a huge role in creating inspiration and his novel ways of showing at-risk students a whole new way of learning.
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Chris Kaminsky is the lab manager at the Lakeshore Fab Lab at Muskegon Community College The facility, based in Muskegon, Michigan is an entrepreneurially focused makerspace working to give people access to technology and software that is typically out of reach for the general public. By night, Chris is an additive manufacturing evangelist working towards demystifying the complexities of 3D printing and design by making it accessible to everyone. To help do so, he co-founded the MI3D organization, which supports over 500 3D enthusiasts with local events. He is also involved in online communities, such as the 3D Printing Club (www.3DPC.tech), where discussions can range from basic concepts to advanced topics.
Chris joins the show today to talk about his efforts to bring people together and empower communities by showcasing how innovative technologies, such as AM, can change lives.
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Sam Ruben is the Chief Sustainability Officer and a Co-Founder of Oakland based Mighty Buildings. Mighty Buildings is on a quest to build homes using 3D printing, robotics and automation. Their system is able to build homes “two times as quickly with 95% less labor hours and 10-times less waste” than conventional construction. In fact, they can 3D print a 350-square-foot studio apartment in just 24 hours.
He joins the show today to talk about the company and the journey to bring 3D Printing to construction.
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https://mightybuildings.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/samruben/
Jacob Rindler is the lead additive manufacturing engineer at The Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME). Before joining the Ohio State team, Jacob developed AM and advanced metals technologies at both Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and Boeing Research and Technology.
Jacob attended The Ohio State University, where he holds a bachelor’s degree in welding engineering.
Ohio State Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence - https://cdme.osu.edu/equipment/additive-manufacturing
Jacob Rindler - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobrindler/
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Frank Medina is an Associate Professor/ Director of Technology and Engagement at UTEP / W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation. Frank is a world-renowned expert in the area of AM and Electron Beam Melting. He has over eighteen years of experience in AM and has educated over one thousand scientists and engineers in the areas of meals AM technology, processes, and advanced applications. He has published and contributed to over 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has been awarded nine additive manufacturing patents, with several other patents pending. Throughout his career, his research interests has centered around additive manufacturing, with a heavy emphasis on the acceleration and advancement of the manufacturing readiness of metal AM technology.
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Dr. Mike Vasquez usually the host of this podcast and is the founder of two 3D Printing companies. He started his first company, 3 Degrees, in 2013 and since then has helped both global companies and family-run businesses navigate the challenges and opportunities of 3D Printing. In talking with hundreds of companies, he kept seeing a need for a tracking software customized to this space. He couldn't find a solution that did what he thought was necessary, so instead, he built one and started his second company, TraceAM. In celebration of the 50th episode of this podcast, he agreed to let me take over the mic and ask the questions. You'll learn what he thinks is next for 3D printing, how his love of sports was a catalyst for his career and what his experience has been as an entrepreneur.
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Melissa Orme, PhD belongs to that small group of engineers who have participated ‘hands-on’ in the field of Additive Manufacturing before the term or even the industry of “Additive Manufacturing” existed. Her career has been divided between academia and small business. On the academic front, she worked as a Professor at UCI for twelve years, After rising to full Professor, Melissa relinquished her tenure at UCI in favor of joining her family in Athens, Greece, where they lived for six years.
After returning to the United States, Melissa joined Morf3D as Chief Technology Officer. Morf3D is a company that is focused on Additive Manufacturing of metallic components primarily for the Aerospace and Defense Industry. In 2019, Melissa joined The Boeing Company as Vice President of Additive Manufacturing. In that capacity, Melissa will continue to grow and scale additive manufacturing capabilities and help to rapidly expand understanding of the unique features that 3D printing can bring to factories and production lines while improving safety and quality.
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Valeria Tirelli is the President and CEO of her family’s manufacturing company Aidro Hydraulics. Aidro's main activities are design, production, and testing of hydraulic components produced in conventional manufacturing and in 3D printing. Aidro is a pioneer in the use of Metal Additive Manufacturing in Fluid Power, Oil & Gas, Mobile Machinery, Aerospace and Industrial applications. She joins the show today to talk about the adoption of AM within her business and the ways that it’s opened new markets.
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Stephanie Brickwede is the Managing Director of Mobility goes Additive and Head of Additive Manufacturing at Deutche Bahn. She has overseen the adoption of 3D Printing throughout a number of applications and technologies within the transportation system. We have a great conversation about the best practices in identifying use cases for AM within a large organization and the bumps that inevitably occur along the way.
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https://mga-net.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanie-brickwede-3653a483/ https://www.deutschebahn.com/en
Ashley Totin is a Senior Project Engineer for America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Ashley received her BE and MSE in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Youngstown State University. Previously as a Engineering Project Manager at the Youngstown Business Incubator, her work focused on analyzing business models for the use of additive manufacturing for aerospace maintenance and sustainment. Through her career she has developed 3D Printing curriculum for students and teachers and hosted camps and after school programs that deal with the new technology. She joins the show today to talk about what she’s seeing in the Additive manufacturing sector today and how national consortiums like America Makes are impacting manufacturing around the county.
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https://www.ncdmm.org/ www.americamakes.us
Bob is the Executive Vice President at Addman Engineering but as a testament to the speed at which things change in the Additive Manufacturing industry, at the time of this recording that news was not public so he was speaking on behalf of 3rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing. Bob has an amazing story of perseverance, hard work, and dedication building his own 3D Printing shop in the Indianapolis area. He shares that jourey with me on the show today and the lessons he’s learned through the adoption of multiple production AM machines.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-markley-%F0%9F%A6%95-8742035/
https://addmangroup.com/
This episode of the 3Degrees Discussions Podcast was recorded live at the 2021 Additive Manufacturing Users Group in Orlando, FL.
Guests include: Len Wagner -- Impossible Objects Adam Penna -- All Digital Additive Manufacturing Theodore Lee -- Made in Space Bob Diaz -- College of Southern Nevada Greg Dudder - Hummingbird Additive Dan Brunermer - ExOne Maddie Frank - 3Degrees Melanie Lang - Formalloy Vito Gervasi - 4D-Vast Andrew Sink - Trimech Alex Pestrana -Trimech David Rittmeyer - Hoosier Pattern Kevin Brigden - Renishaw Greg Nemecek - Action Mold and Machining Danny Levy - Jonathan Hans Hollahan - Arkema Maciej Jakuki - Element Todd Spurgeon - NCDMM
That was Maciej Jakucki. Maciej is the medical device testing manager for Element Materials. Element is one of the world leaders in material qualification and product testing. He joins the show today to talk about the ways the Element and their customers are approaching validation of 3D Printing processes, especially in the medical space.
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https://www.element.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciejjakucki/
Pete Zelinski and Stefanie Hendrixson are responsible for some of the most in depth and nuanced coverage of the Additive Manufacturing industry through their Cool Parts Show and Additive Manufacturing Media. They join the show today to talk about the evolution of the 3D Printing industry and some of the trends they are seeing in the space.
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Brandon Lamoncha is the head of Additive Manufacturing at Humtown Products in Columbiana, Ohio. Humtown is a multigenerational family owned business that started as a pattern shop in 1959. They have a history of making patterns from CNC as well as sand cores and molds for the foundry industry. Over the past several years Humtown has adopted and grown their Additive Manufacturing capabilities and extend those capabilities into the metal casting supply chain. Brandon joins the show to talk about the history of the company and we dive into the fascinating journey of a small company taking a leap into 3D Printing.
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Humtown Products - https://www.humtown.com/ Brandon Lamoncha -https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lamoncha-08b31715/
Paul Gradl is a senior propulsion engineer in the Combustion Devices Design and Development Branch at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He leads the manufacturing, design, development, and testing of nozzles and nozzle extensions. For over a decade, he has supported a variety of nozzle development and flight programs, and has been involved in technology development supporting the manufacturing and measurement techniques for nozzles.
Paul joins the show today to discuss his work to develop Additive Manufacturing for combustion devices for rockets. He also shared some sweet videos that you can check out in the about section of the podcast and on our website www.3degreescompany.com
Cool NASA Videos https://3dprint.com/278670/nasa-advances-new-alloys-and-scale-of-metal-additive-manufacturing/amp/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/3d-printed-rocket-engine-parts-survive-23-hot-fire-tests.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/future-rocket-engines-may-include-large-scale-3d-printing.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2019/nasa-and-virgin-orbit-3d-print-test-rocket-combustion-chamber.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHqdVU9Ebo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfeP4BVTsps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU3WI6IYW1Q
Yash Bandari is an Additive Manufacturing Product Manager at Meltio. Yash has over 10 years of experience with directed energy deposition 3D Printing processes having had the opportunity to work with all three heat sources including arc, laser, and electron beam. Meltio is an AM machine manufacturer focused on DED offering a solution that can use either or both wire and powder feedstock.
As you could probably guess from the introduction, we’re going to dive headfirst into a discussion about DED processes and their evolution in the 3D Printing sector.
https://meltio3d.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-yash-bandari/
Javier Ramos is a Co-Founder and the Director of Hardware at Inkbit. He leads systems and technology development activities and previously worked at Rethink Robotics and Leaf. Inkbit was spun out of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in 2017. They have built the first 3D printer driven by vision-based feedback control and earlier this year announced their first machine called the Vista.
He joins the show today to talk about the journey to commercialize the Vista and how AI and Vision systems can be used to improve the end to end 3D Printing process.
Inkbit - https://inkbit3d.com/ Javier Ramos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-e-ramos-b508b1b/
Ellen Lee is the Technical Leader for Additive Manufacturing Research at the Ford Motor Company where she focuses on polymer applications. She is responsible for developing AM strategy and technical roadmaps for materials and processes to enable automotive uses cases of Additive Manufacturing. She joins the show today to talk about the process of evaluating emerging technology and the end to end process of moving an application through the 3D Printing ecosystem.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-lee-334a9b54/ https://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20190128/NEWS/190129888/ford-carbon-collaboration-widens-3d-printing-possibilities https://www.machinedesign.com/3d-printing-cad/article/21158698/no-straight-line-on-prototyping
Greg Nemecek is the Additive Manufacturing Manager at Action Mold and Machine. He joins the show today with his colleague Matt Duffey. Action Mold and Machining specializes in quick turn repair and engineering changes for molds. They are veteran owned business based in Grand Rapids since 1997 and have been on the forefront of adopting metal additive manufacturing in recent years. Greg and Matt discuss the evolution of AM technology within the company and how they are expanding its use to their customer base.
https://www.actionmold.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emsu8rEaTJY https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-nemecek-b086b321/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-duffey-4435602b/
This was a podcast crossover with the team from 3DPod and 3dprint.com - Maxwell Bogue and Joris Peels. Previously published on March 1st, 2021
After studying at Loughborough and MIT he worked on making snowboard components for Burton, Mike Vasquez started 3Degrees. There, he’s not only a 3D printing consultant but also has his own podcast. So, as a first for us, we’re doing a collab where you and the 3Degrees audience will be able to listen to our joint show. Ignore the MIT degrees and the vast knowledge, as well as Mike’s silky smooth voice, please, and stick to our program!
Max and I again enjoyed this discussion and Mike’s vision on materials, polymers, and when and where 3D printing is useful. Mike is focusing on enabling small-to-medium businesses to tackle additive head-on in implementation and production. This is a super valuable area for him to leverage his knowledge. He has also launched Trace, an application to help companies track and implement quality management systems for additive.
Zac Holcomb is the CEO and Co-Founder of Additive America based in North Carolina. Additive America offers a number of 3D Printing services including Multi-jet Fusion and design expertise. Zac spent a number of years in the AM industry building his skillset around machine operation and DfAM before starting up his own venture in 2019.
He joins the show today to talk about that journey and we spend a lot of time discussing one of Additive America’s core competencies – medical prosthetics.
https://www.additiveamerica.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacholcomb/
Luis Folgar is the Executive VP of Technology at AMT Post Pro. AMT is one of the industry leaders for automating 3D Printing post processing. Luis has a wealth of experience in the Additive Manufacturing sector working previously at Nike and Paramount Industries where he applied his materials science expertise to the world of 3D Printing.
He joins the show today to talk about one of the most underrated parts of the 3D Printing industry – post processing and how AMT is working to automate this part of the 3D Printing workflow.
https://amtechnologies.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-folgar/
Annie Wang is the President of Senvol, a global leader in data for additive manufacturing. At Senvol, Annie has overseen the creation of Senvol ML, which is data-driven machine learning software for additive manufacturing. Annie’s area of focus is on analyzing the correlation among material properties, process parameters and feedstock properties. Annie is actively involved in activities across the additive manufacturing industry. She is Vice Chair for the SAE Data Management Committee, serves on the Data Integrity Advisory Group and Commercialization Advisory Group for America Makes, and is a member of the ASTM F42 Committee for Additive Manufacturing Technologies.
She joins the show today to talk about her startup journey with Senvol along with the multitude of cutting-edge products that Senvol has developed over the history of the company.
http://senvol.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-wang-a9611a5/
SK is the founder of Adiguru. Adiguru is an artificial intelligence based real-time monitoring solution that aims to significantly improve the defect detection rate for additive manufacturing parts. He has significant experience in product management, strategic planning, product launches and working with cross-functional teams.
He joins the show today to speak about in-situ monitoring for 3D Printing both the challenges and the opportunities. SK also brings his perspective on starting a business just before the pandemic.
https://www.addiguru.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuchikhurana/
Joel Neidig is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience integrating manufacturing technology and developing software. He cofounded Atlas 3D which was a later acquired by Siemens after licensing technology developed in collaboration with America Makes, Johnson and Johnson, the University of Notre Dame, and ITAMCO. His most recent startup, Simba chain is brining blockchain technology to the manufacturing floor.
Joel joins the show to talk about the data challenges around 3D Printing and advanced manufacturing and how his companies are pushing the boundaries of new technologies like block chain to improve the US supply chain.
https://simbachain.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-neidig-62971429/
Paul DeWys is a self-described sales guy trapped in the body of an engineer who ended up in marketing, hence, his role as a Sales Engineer. He works with companies and customers to help educate them about what is possible when you combine 3D laser scanning to capture a part, apply mechanical engineering expertise to modify it, and use additive manufacturing equipment to help prototype or produce end use parts. He does this through his companies DeWys Engineering and Forerunner 3D Printing.
For today’s show he shares his experience building a 3D Printing company from scratch and his advice for communicating the technical information related to 3D Printing materials, machines, and processes.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBgEVwhQAkrZxPMmJylXYzg https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-dewys/ https://forerunner3d.com/
Tim Simpson is the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design & Manufacturing, Director of the world’s first Additive Manufacturing & Design Graduate Program, and Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) at Penn State. He specializes in Design for Additive Manufacturing, and he has helped educate and train nearly 800 industry practitioners to use and design for metal additive manufacturing. He contributes a monthly column on Additive Insights to Modern Machine Shop, and he is an Educational ADDVisor for The Barnes Group Advisors, a team of experts helping industrialize additive manufacturing.
We talk today about the ever-evolving world of 3D Printing education and training. Tim also shares his predictions for the ongoing growth of the AM industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-william-simpson/ https://www.innovationpark.psu.edu/2014-10-19-23-34-22
SJ Jones is an Additive Manufacturing Application Engineer at Siemens Energy where she focuses on helping to bring metal additive manufacturing solutions the problem of climate change. SJ has a wide array of experience working in the metal 3D Printing first at a small company supporting the aerospace sector and she continued on there as the company was acquired by Aerojet Rocketdyne
We talk today about her career in the AM industry and her approaches to evaluating technology that is changing at a breakneck pace. She also gives her perspective on the ‘Laser Wars’ impacting all facets of the metal space today. She shares some great advice on how to overcome the fear of failure --- especially when you’re dealing with million dollar machines and builds that cost thousands of dollars.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joness24601/ Twitter: @inconelle
Since 2015 Adam Penna from All Digital Additive Manufacturing has been focused on Additive Manufacturing consulting sales, marketing strategy, customer experience, and exploring technologies like Laser Powder Bed Fusion. He spent a number of years at EOS helping them build a regional brand, managing channel partners, and developing an inside sales team
Adam now has a video podcast where he connects with people that pique his interest in and around 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing --- Continuing the conversation by promoting positive people and applications behind AM events while sharing educational knowledge together, layer by layer.
He joins the show today to talk about his thoughts on how Covid 19 has impacted the AM industry and what trends dictated by the pandemic will extend beyond 2020.
https://www.alldigitalam.com/ https://twitter.com/AdamJPenna https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-j-penna/
Greg Paulsen leads Xometry’s application engineering team. Xometry is an AI driven manufacturing as a service marketplace platform. Greg started his career running polymer laser sintering systems and now is responsible for a number of different printing technologies within Xometry’s portfolio. He joins the show to talk more about the company and his experiences being both a user and customer of 3D Printing along with being a supplier.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manypartsmade/ https://www.xometry.com/
Juan Mario Gomez is the CEO of Xact Metal. Xact Metal is a startup out of Penn State University developing a lower cost direct metal additive manufacturing system. As opposed to traditional direct metal systems that can cost upwards of a million dollars, the Xact platform is a fraction of that cost with the aim to lower both the financial and risk burden typically required to invest in these types of technologies.
Prior to running Xact Metal, Juan Mario was at GE for 15 years.
He joins the show today to talk about the need for lower cost metal systems in the AM ecosystem and how it will impact not only the next generation of companies using 3D Printing but will enable access to the technology at a much more hands on way.
https://xactmetal.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanmario/
Simon Pun is a Materials Engineering leader at Divergent 3D. Divergent replaces conventional vehicle architecture, tooling and related factory assets with a proprietary, patented, end-to-end system for vehicle design and volume manufacturing. Their mission, enabled by additive manufacturing aims to produce significantly lighter, higher performance, safer, and lower cost vehicle structures. Simon joins the show to discuss how 3D Printing can revolutionize the automotive industry.
https://www.divergent3d.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonpun/
Alex Kingsbury's career in additive manufacturing (AM) spans both industry and R&D specializing in bringing new technologies to market. She has successfully co-created solutions and partnerships in the sectors of: aerospace, defense, biomedical, and resources. Alex is currently an Additive Manufacturing Industry Fellow at RMIT University working to enhance links between industry and the university. These links extend across research, and teaching and learning functions at the university. Prior to this role she worked as a consultant to industry, specializing in metal AM. Alex holds a Bachelor of Engineering with a major in metals processing, and is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbkingsbury/
Stephen Anderson is the Vice President of Business Development at the Dyndrite Corporation. Dyndrite has built the world’s first GPU powered hybrid AM kernel, capable of reading native CAD. Previous to his role at Dyndrite, Stephen was the Additive Manufacturing Business Development Manager at Renishaw leading the 3D Metal printing business for the company in the USA.
He joins the show today to talk about the evolution of software in the 3D Printing space and the growing need to have evolved solutions keep pace with the increasing printing speed, capacity, and throughput of 3D Printing machinery.
https://www.dyndrite.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-anderson-1479564/
Maddie Frank is about to complete her undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been heavily involved in the 3D Printing industry during her time in school having spent time working at Carbon, Divergent 3D, GSC, and Women in 3D Printing. She joins the show to talk about her path to the Additive Manufacturing industry and chronicle her experience entering the sector as a soon to be college graduate.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddie-frank-586505a8/
Michelle Bockman is the CEO of 3D Printer OS. Previous to her current role, she was the General Manager and Global Head of 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing at HP. She has also worked at GE and has a background in mechanical engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla.
She joins the show to compare and contrast her experience working in a large organization entering the 3D printing market versus a startup trying to build something from the ground up.
https://www.3dprinteros.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellebockman/
Al McGovern has engineered products and built strong mechanical engineering teams in 6 different industries at 7 different companies in 6 states over the past 40 years. During that time, he’s used many subtractive and, since 1991, additive prototyping methods in both Research and in Development efforts. In additive, he’s used equipment from 3D Systems, Stratasys, EOS (metal), DTM, Z-Corp, Carbon, Markforged, Desktop Metal, Formlabs and HP. He is an advocate for early and frequent use of 3DP in product development from ideation to field trials, and is still seeking his first production 3DP use in high quality consumer audio products. He is the Director of Mechanical Engineering at Shure Incorporated.
https://www.shure.com/en-US https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertmcgovern/
Byron Kennedy is the cofounder and CEO of SPEE3D, a high-speed, metal 3D printing company. He is a serial entrepreneur, having cofounded the first spin-off company from Charles Darwin University before exiting to NYSE listed company Regal Beloit (Fasco). His current company, SPEE3D has developed a new 3D printing process for metals - supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D). Targeting commercial and industrial applications, the technology is suitable for a vast array of materials including copper, aluminum and other metals.
He joins the show to talk about the Speed3D technology and approaches to increase the throughput of 3D Printing metal.
https://www.spee3d.com/
Tyler LeBrun is an independent Additive Manufacturing consultant at Protingent. Prior to his current role, he spent several years in the aerospace sector at both Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne. Tyler is actively engaged in industry volunteerism with the drafting and review of standards pertaining to all aspects of additive manufacturing. He’s a committee member of ASTM and ISO. He’s also a Regular contributor to SAE Aerospace Materials Specifications including authoring and leading working groups on draft specifications ahead of general committee review and ballot.
We take a deep dive today on standards in AM.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerlebrun/ Twitter: @tylerclebrun
Laura Ely is the leader of ADDvisor Services for the Barnes Global Advisors.
Prior to this, she was responsible for the build out of a new team focused on the maturation of laser/wire deposition for Titanium aerostructures at GKN Aerospace.
She joins the show to talk about her journey in the Additive Manufacturing industry and we focus on how to build diverse and highly functional teams within the space.
https://www.barnesglobaladvisors.com/
Nora is the Director of Sales and Service Factory Operations at Fast Radius. She also founded the non-profit Women in 3D Printing in 2014 to promote women leaders in the additive manufacturing industry. In addition to managing the organization, which involves community engagement, partners & sponsors recruitment and overall technology watching, Nora leads a global team of over 80 volunteers, acting as local representatives of the organization’s brand.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noratoure/ https://womenin3dprinting.com/
Dr. Candice Majewski is a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield, with a teaching and research focus on Additive Manufacturing.
Much of her work centers around understanding and optimizing the interactions between materials and processes in AM involving powdered plastics.
She joins the show today to talk about developments in powder-based polymer printing processes and the work her team does in developing new materials for industry.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/people/academic/candice-majewski
Tuan Tranpham is the Chief Revenue officer at Arevo. Arevo is enabling manufacturing-as-a-service for delivering composite manufacturing today via through breakthroughs in software, robotics, and materials science. With on-demand manufacturing of large thermoplastic composite parts and structures from bikes to flying cars, Arevo is revolutionizing mainstream manufacturing and the global supply chain. Tuan has spent last 17 years working for seven 3D printing companies such as Z Corporation, 3D Systems, Objet, Stratasys, Arcam (GE Additive), Desktop Metal and now Arevo.
Tuan joins the show to talk about his experience selling multiple 3D Printing platforms and how the customer of the technology has evolved over the past decade.
John Hart is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (APT), and Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT. John’s research aims to accelerate the science and technology of production via advancements in additive manufacturing, nanostructured materials, and precision machine design. John created the world’s first massive open online course on manufacturing processes (MIT 2.008x on edX), and leads MIT’s online additive manufacturing certificate program, which has educated thousands of professionals since its launch in 2018. He is also a co-founder of startup companies Desktop Metal and VulcanForms, and is a Board Member of Carpenter Technology Corporation.
John joins the show to talk about education and the Additive Manufacturing industry
Todd Grimm is 29-year veteran of the additive manufacturing industry. Todd is president of T. A. Grimm & Associates, an additive manufacturing consulting and communications company. From his work as a consultant, writer, author, speaker, editor and advisor, he was named as one of The TCT Magazine’s 20 most influential in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry and has been twice nominated for the TCT Hall of Fame.
Todd joins the show to talk about how he got his start in 3D Printing and the evolution of the technology over the past 30 years.
https://www.tagrimm.com/
Greg Hayes is the Senior Vice President of Applications at EOS. Greg joins the show to discuss the world of production additive manufacturing from the perspective of an equipment manufacturer. We talk about his career in research and how he joined EOS to help build their consulting group Additive Minds.
EOS - https://www.eos.info/en
Shannon VanDeren is the owner and President of Layered Manufacturing and Consulting, a company she founded to serve as a technology and material agnostic voice in the 3D Printing industry. She joins the show today to discuss her entrepreneurial journey and the importance of listening to customers in the AM industry. For the past several years, Shannon has also run the Medical track for the Additive Manufacturing Users Group conference and she shares her thoughts on the influences of the technology in the medical space.
Learn more about her company here: https://www.layeredmanufacturingandconsulting.com/
Carl Dekker is the President of Met-l-flo, a 3D Printing service bureau in Illinois. In addition to his day job, Carl is the President of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group. As one of the distinguished innovators in the industry, he shares his perspectives on the evolution of the technology and how standardization is playing a key role the progress of 3D Printing.
Met-l-flo: https://www.metlflo.com/ AMUG - https://www.amug.com/
Danny Levy is an Advanced Manufacturing Technologist for a Stealth Startup. He has great insights on Design for Additive Manufacturing and we discuss some of his approaches to designing for the technology. He also shares his perspectives from inside the trenches of 3D Printing machine operation.
You can follow his work on Instagram @technologically_woke
John Barnes is the Founder and Managing Director of the Barnes Group Advisors, a global Additive Manufacturing consultancy based in Pittsburgh.
You can learn more about The Barnes Group Advisors here: https://www.thebarnes.group/
2020 Summer Webinar Series https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3715942119827/WN_a8pS4130SO-Po9SV8fQdOw
Dr. Addy Olubamiji is an Advanced Manufacturing Technical Advisor at Cummins. She is also the founder of the STEMHub Foundation which is an organization she founded to help underrepresented youth pursue opportunities in STEM.
Addy's TedTalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXAoRkteSBg
Cummins Additive Manufacturing https://www.cummins.com/news/2019/03/07/cummins-takes-next-step-3d-printing-and-future-manufacturing
STEMHub Foundation https://stemhubfoundation.com/
Bill Heise a professor at East Tennessee St University as well as Business and Marketing Consultant for 3Degrees. He joins the podcast to talk about building an Additive Manufacturing materials strategy within a large organization.
https://www.etsu.edu/cbat/mgmtmkt/facstaff/heise.php http://www.3degreescompany.com/
John Laureto is the AMG Americas Operations and Application Manager for Renishaw. You can find out more about his work in metal additive manufacturing here:
https://www.renishaw.com/en/additive-manufacturing-solutions-centres--37039
Dr. Federico Sciammarella is President and CTO of MxD (Manufacturing x Digital). You can find out more about his work and the work of the institute at https://mxdusa.org/