3Degrees Discussions

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

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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