The AM Sasquatch: Challenging AM Qualification with Math, Physics, & AI

Yeah.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Interesting.

I mean, this is super exciting news for the, for the industry, my opinion, right? This could, this could, especially in regulated industries, but also in non-regulated industries, I think really accelerate development times, reduce barrier of entry, um, really enable the distributed manufacturing concept that the additive industry has been talking about for a long time, right? the qualification is the one of the key barriers to through that concept because i do have to re-qualify the whole the whole sites begin and again and again i

i think it i think it changes honestly every level of this industry right so for example a lot of people like to say there's no money in additive well apparently there's a lot of money in additive to qualify stuff yeah

right people then there is if you do it right there's a lot of money yeah

right but you know if you're not spending all that money qualifying things you can spend that money scaling your operations buying more machines trying it on more parts that's part one right part two is historically all of the additive machine vendors have made all these process parameters and and sets right this is not a cheap endeavor right i i would expect the likes of eos or slm renish how to spend millions of dollars every year making these process parameters

I

think it actually reduces the burden on them because it allows the customer to have more ownership over it.

We don't need validated process parameters anymore from the machine vendor.

What does that even mean at this point? Because now we have an infinite number of them in a window.

Right.

Beyond that, people can probably start printing twice the speed printing without the supports.

You've seen the stuff that some of our customers have been doing.

So that's, again, more money savings and opportunity to scale.

Right.

And further, it flips the power dynamic.

It now allows all of the people who are making the parts to make custom ideas and custom IP and then distribute for

scale.

Yeah, for sure.

It allows you really start to use additive also as a moat in the hard tech industry, which is something that...

I've been talking to, we just did a podcast interview with a company called Annihilator.

They print broadheads for bow hunters, which is super different industry than what we're talking about right now.

But the process know-how and the custom parameters that they have developed is a mode around their company and really gives them a two-year advantage over any new entrant that wants to come into their industry, which is super easy to do in a non-regulated industry, right? It's very hard to do in a regulated industry for all the aspects that you just described.