Crazy Wisdom
How is additive manufacturing (3D printing) changing manufacturing? - Stephanie Bonfiglio
- Robots & Atoms
- 3d printing
- additive manufacturing
- manufacturing innovation
- industrial technology
About this episode
- What type of additive manufacturing machines does the company you work for have?
- What is the role of proprietary legal stuff when it comes to additive manufacturing?
- What is an EOS machine?
- Has Germany always been an additive manufacturer superpower?
- Is China taking over from them?
- What is a service bureau?
- Contract manufacturing
- How many interactions with a client on a particular part do you usually do?
- 2-3 generally between when the customer needs to test it
- 10 builds total over 1-2 years
- What is the key thing for helping a customer understand the difference between designing for 3D printing versus traditional manufacturing?
- What is 3D printing opening up in terms of novel designs that additive manufacturing opens up?
- What is the famous engine fuel nozzle that 3D printing opened up?
- What is the difference between consumer 3D printing and custom/industrial 3D printing?
- How much does a 3D printing machine for industrial purposes cost?
- What does it mean to qualify a part?
- What are the machines that have more stability across different service bureaus?
- What is a concept laser? Bellow?
- These are companies that produce machines
- How many people work at your company?
- How many competitors do you have?
- 2-3 similar service bureaus
- What are all the niches for these competitors?
- Automotive
- Energy
- Aerospace
- Medical
- What type of employees are you using?
- What does a lab tech do?
- How big are your machines?
- Who specializes in larger parts that are produced by 3D printing?
- What are the types of geometries that are novel to 3D printing?
- How did you get into this?
- What is connector manufacturing?
- Do you enjoy this field?
- How do you work with a customer who has propriety clauses?
- What companies are doing the rapid prototyping for consumers?
- Exometry
- Goprodo
- Prodolabs
- How did the supply chain crisis from COVID change your business?
- What are your thoughts on bringing manufacturing back to the United States?
- The materials that you use, how much of it comes from other places in the world?
- What types of powders?
- 16 different metals
- Where is it manufactured?
- Finland
- What is the relationship between software and hardware when it comes to 3D printing?
- What is the support removal?
- What is AS9100?
Episode transcript
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Stephanie Bonfiglio. She is. She is a senior sales engineer at i3D MFG. And that is a 3D printing additive manufacturing center. And I don't know too much about it at the moment, but I'm really excited to interview some Stephanie about it. Welcome to the show.
All right, so we're a service bureau. We have multiple machines, all of the same manufacturer, but we basically get proprietary models from our customer base and we say whether or not they're good to pro or if we need to make some adjustments so that they are printable without supports or with supports or whatever that may be. And then we print them and once they're done printing, get them to the customer. That's in short. But we have only EOS machines. We've got nine of them and we're growing.
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