2022-07-07 Emerging Tech Meeting Minutes

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Jul 7, 2022

ANTITRUST STATEMENT

As participants in this meeting, we need to be mindful of the constraints of antitrust laws. There shall be no discussions of agreements or concerted actions that may restrain competition. This prohibition includes the exchange of information concerning individual prices, rates, coverages, market practices, claims settlement practices, or any other competitive aspect of an individual company’s operation. Each participant is obligated to speak up immediately for the purpose of preventing any discussion falling outside these bounds.

Agenda

  • Antitrust Agreement

  • Meeting minutes Review/Acceptance

  • Welcome/Networking

    • Alexandre Donnadiu-Deray, Managing Director, 3YOURMIND Inc.

    • Dr. Henrike Wonneberger, Co-Founder of Replique, BASF

  • Continue Knowledge share of 3D printing

  • 3D printing and CIECAs role

    • Discuss Problem Statement/Pain Points

    • Scope of Solutions

    • Action items and milestones

Meeting Minutes

  • Antitrust Accepted

  • Meeting Minutes Reviewed and accepted

  • Welcome/Networking

    • Alexandre Donnadiu-Deray, Managing Director, 3YOURMIND Inc.

    • Dr. Henrike Wonneberger, Co-Founder of Replique, BASF

  • Data is not just about a CAD file, but it’s also about the machine data. It is all the data associated and the way that it needs post processing and to make sure that on the one hand it’s stored safely, and it is transferred safely or maybe it's not transferred in our model but printed out in a Safeway with encryption.

  • Make sure numbers of prints are not violated. The number of printouts and at the same time that if you've onboarded and qualified and cleared a certain quality in a part that you would always find that quality again in your reprints wherever they are going to be printed.

  • Industrial 3D printing, that quality and the IP are really preserved, who owns the designs in the end.

    • The OEM owns the designs and a digital warehouse in a safe way, they can provide it to sort of whoever needs it in the industry. it might be a workshop who could then directly order the parts, and this would be routed through. And through the warehouse to a partner that is close to the location, it would be printed out and sent to them directly.

  • Data acquisition in the industrial process and how, how, how does it work and what can whatever the standards and the best practices

    • What data is available out there right when we talk about?

      • Getting into software realm or digitization realm is going from one digital environment to the other.

        For example, classic ERP PLM systems. And going to the new software's that exists specifically for additive manufacturing for instance or going from the physical slash 2D environment. To a digital environment.

        Digitization, I think there is first of all, a big bottleneck actually in that realm because a lot of the data that we see at our customers are very spread out. Out scattered. None at erogenous so. And you find, let's say at least 2.

      • Big segment of data, one is what we like, everything related to the design, and everything related to meta data which is usually stored in what we call Bill of material in ERP systems and so on. That software needs to take is one a good approach to characterize characterizing the type of data its industry has, and each company has, and this means that to have an industrial. An approach so the defense industry doesn't have this same approach as the automotive industry in that regard is the OEM as an OK was.

    • Organization that is working already on defining what are kind of like the data standards so minimum viable data package per industry. It's ASTM. They have a group named.

      A. The center of competencies for data. They're regrouping couple of times a year to work on that type of thing. Software needs to understand this industry and be able to entail the different type of data. Technically, it means also being able to of course, you know, collect 3D files but also collect meta data on classic ERP classic database.

      • Having a good API Strategy.

    • In software APIs also key because it's APIs, the application interfaces and no open API strategy would be very important to be able to 1 connect to existing enterprise software existing database but also connecting to scan for instance if scanner being used for digitizing some existing parts. The connection is kind of like the connection to the real world, so to speak, is as to be done through one a good characterization of data per industry. And two a good API strategy to be able to connect both meta data and 3D files. That's kind of like the entry point I would say. Getting into the workflow for additive manufacturing, the digital workflow.

  • Looking from a Collision point of view (Estimate, repair plan, repair, locating parts)

    • Today we have a lot of backordered parts and would 3D printing help with this?

    • An example, a customer that has vehicles that needs a very high level of availability and operation ability basically. A customer parts that break in in external, you know, theaters and so on. That's an example. But we also have like we work with the manufacturer for instance as well.

    • What happens is that the operators that are maintaining this equipment they don't know about it in manufacturing and this it's normal because I did, manufacturing is still a niche technology and it's quite still very, very black box, very much a black box. There is a lot of opportunity to use additive manufacturing. The role of software in that position and our software is actually to be that interface.

  • The big question that needs to be answered in in general without the manufacturing is in 3/3. Depending in general is that it's not whether a part could be printed because most of the part can be printed, but what their part should be printed and if it should.

    • Talk to your additive manufacturing supplier, for example, that could help you work on the design and basically then produce the part with AM. But it's a little bit like and like what we're saying as well is that we in that process we so funnel first requirement of the user give the feedback on the best way to produce it based on lead time information business case and so on then help them qualify that part throughout this environment together with.

      But in one collaboration environment, together with the application engineer for 3D printing and then store this in a digital qualified inventory that can be clicked on to order part directly to a supplier.

  • Printing Tools

    • You would need at least things related to the size of the part starting with the size of the part is very important because I very well limited by that then certification.

    • Limitation will be extremely important as well because it's we have some certification canvas within the evaluation that says that certain material cannot be printed the with the quality required in certain, let's say automotive standards, right? That's another thing. Material size of the part or the very first things that we need to have then if you can populate information regarding tolerances, it is also quite important mechanical properties and then you can already have.

      A first, she's back now you ask another question, which is how additive manufacturing can help a repair shop.

    • Not just with spare parts, right? Because spare parts are one thing and we by experience see in different industry throughout different industry approximately 10% of good use cases for spare parts. But just 10% in in the whole inventories.

      But it could also be used for jigs and fixtures, but also rapid casting or creating a tool. A new tool that you're missing or part in that case you might not have to kind of like disrupt too much the qualification process of the certification process, because you would just create the tool in another way with potentially another material, but at least you won't have to go to the supplier. As for the tool again, and then cast your part. For instance, here you could also use additive manufacturing with rapid.

      Casting and you would need to know how to do it.

  • Who owns the CAD data and how is it licensed? I can't just pull up on my iPhone and hook to Bluetooth and print.

    • No, I think that's absolutely the point. And that's why so in, in, in our world, in the Republic world for us, it's very important that the OEM keeps the IP on the design, the person who has designed they should a have the benefits should be compensated.

      And be they should also be able to control the quality, because what can also happen if your design is traveling around the world and somebody else prints it out and claims it as an OEM part and its somehow bad quality. This might, you know.

      Kind of.

      That's sort of destroy your brand. Very important and for us, it's really the OEM keeps the design. They also keep the relationship with their customers and that's what I when I was talking about the ecommerce channel of the OEM. And then it's only in the back end where Replik sort of is doing the execution. I think that's very important.

  • Pay a design per use right. If you use it every time you pay for three times of the usage and for example technology like blockchain, but other software. I'm also able to do that, but it's still, I would say this at this stage software can answer the question and and the state of the art of I would love to be able to say that our software and let's say the state of the art of the software right now can fully answer the question of.

  • Committee come up with thoughts and questions to review in the next meeting to decide if CIECA has any role in data in the 3D area.

 

Up Next

  • Antitrust Agreement

  • Meeting minutes Review/Acceptance

  • Welcome Networking

  • Review thoughts of members and questions on CIECA role in the 3D data.

Action items

Decision

 

Participants