3Degrees Discussions

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/