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. Before we get started head ...
Jun 15, 2022•37 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degrees...
Jun 09, 2022•47 min
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. 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, Appl...
Jun 02, 2022•42 min
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 Intern...
May 26, 2022•39 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you c...
May 12, 2022•38 min
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 obj...
May 05, 2022•49 min
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 ...
Apr 28, 2022•33 min
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 yea...
Apr 20, 2022•50 min
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 du...
Apr 08, 2022•55 min
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...
Mar 25, 2022•40 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remem...
Mar 13, 2022•50 min
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) Em...
Mar 03, 2022•45 min
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 ...
Feb 24, 2022•48 min
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 ...
Feb 18, 2022•42 min
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. Before we get...
Feb 10, 2022•43 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast...
Feb 04, 2022•47 min
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 ...
Jan 20, 2022•40 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhe...
Jan 13, 2022•40 min
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 degree...
Jan 06, 2022•40 min
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 ...
Dec 30, 2021•34 min
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 i...
Dec 22, 2021•31 min
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 man...
Dec 16, 2021•43 min
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 fro...
Dec 09, 2021•37 min
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/ Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show...
Nov 27, 2021•38 min
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. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subs...
Nov 18, 2021•37 min
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 2009-20...
Nov 11, 2021•48 min
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 Innova...
Nov 05, 2021•44 min
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 develo...
Oct 28, 2021•42 min
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...
Oct 20, 2021•12 min
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 P...
Oct 08, 2021•38 min
