3D-Printing: Desktop Factory Chefin Cathy Lewis im Interview
Vor allem in Make-Kreisen mit einiger Spannung erwartet wird der 3D-"Billigdrucker" von Desktop Factory. Das Fabbaloo-Blog hat ein aktuelles Interview (Teil 1, Teil 2) mit der Chefin Cathy Lewis. Darin beschreibt sie u.a. den Markt und wann die ersten Desktop Factories auf den Markt kommen:
"Cathy Lewis: In terms of competition we feel that there is ample opportunity in this market for a number of participants.
The current vendors like Stratasys, ZCorp, Objet and 3d Systems are not household names as you see in the 2d printing space.
In fact, few outside the industry have ever heard of them and after almost 20 years they continue to be relatively small companies with revenues ranging from $50M to $150M dollars annually. And most of them, with one exception, are very profitable and growing rapidly.
They tend to sell through distributors and they may be too busy satisfying current customer needs and moving into Rapid Manufacturing to worry about what we are doing. At least for the time being.
However, one can never take their eye off of the prize . . .
Fabbaloo: Final question: When can we get one?
Cathy Lewis: We are planning on placing several local beta units with customers when we complete this round of testing.
Those placements will be in the first quarter of 2009 after which we will begin our commercial launch.
Please keep in mind that we do have 350 units on order at this time and we will prioritize those customers first.
And remember we will update testing, beta and launch on a regular basis via our Desktop Factory newsletter!"
Inzwischen kann man über die Entwicklungen leicht den Überblick verlieren. Kürzlich wies das Ponoko-Blog auf einen aktuellen Marktüberblick ("3D Printers summarised") hin.
In den letzten beiden Tagen fand in England zum dritten Mal die internationale Rapid Manufacturing Conference statt. Vielleicht schreibt ja Frank Piller noch etwas dazu.
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