Additive Snack - Will Your Next Product Be Engineered By An Algorithm?

Will Your Next Product Be Engineered By An Algorithm?

03/17/22 • 33 min

In this episode, Host Fabian Alefeld speaks with Lin Kayser, CEO of Hyperganic Group. Lin shares the knowledge and vision he acquired from being a successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 years. Lin has gone from industrial automation to bringing the Hollywood film industry into the digital age. He has had leadership roles in organizations focused on sustainability, renewable energy, and space flight. His company, Hyperganic, wants to radically change the way objects are engineered and designed using advanced algorithms to help engineers achieve groundbreaking design complexity.

During today's episode, Fabian talks to Lin about what inspired him to start Hyperganic Group, how Hyperganic’s innovative platform can change the way products are engineered and designed, why the platform is the perfect fit for the next generation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and AM engineers, and his vision for the future of AM and code-based design.

Comments about the show or wish to share your AM journey? Contact us at [email protected]. The Additive Snack Podcast is brought to you by EOS.

Key Takeaways:

[1:54] Lin’s dynamic career path progressed from accidentally inventing a movie playback software to buying a 3D printer and creating Hyperganic.

[7:03] Lin describes how Hyperganic changes the game in manufacturing.

[12:38] Can current software engineers be supercharged to bridge the gap in manufacturing jobs and code-based design?

[19:16] Hyperganic is creating highly-optimized objects on demand, appropriate technologies, and client-specific applications.

[23:54] Lin’s vision for the future of AM includes licensed algorithms and humanless factories.

Shareables:

“In 2008, when Al Gore gave his famous talk on an Inconvenient Truth on climate change. And that kind of shook me awake. I joke that I thought we had already solved the environmental crisis by separating our trash. And here is this guy talking about this monster that is barreling down on us. I felt what the hell am I doing in the entertainment industry.” — Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic

“Hyperganic tries to dramatically accelerate innovation by moving manufacturing and engineering to a software paradigm.”— Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic

“There is one aspect of our technology that is interesting. What you do when you create an object using our technology is you don't create an object, you create a process that creates objects.” — Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic

Comments about the show or wish to share your AM journey? Contact us at [email protected]. The Additive Snack Podcast is brought to you by EOS.

Key Takeaways:

[1:54] Lin’s dynamic career path progressed from accidentally inventing a movie playback software to buying a 3D printer and creating Hyperganic.

[7:03] Lin describes how Hyperganic changes the game in manufacturing.

[12:38] Can current software engineers be supercharged to bridge the gap in manufacturing jobs and code-based design?

[19:16] Hyperganic is creating highly-optimized objects on demand, appropriate technologies, and client-specific applications.

[23:54] Lin’s vision for the future of AM includes licensed algorithms and humanless factories.

Shareables:

“Hyperganic tries to dramatically accelerate innovation by moving manufacturing and engineering to a software paradigm.”— Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic

Previous Episode

How Additive Manufacturing (AM) is Enabling the Next Leap in Aerospace Innovation

In this episode, Host Fabian Alefeld speaks with Brian Neff. Brian is the CEO of Sintavia and Chairman of the Board of Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA). Sintavia is an aerospace manufacturer that uses 3D printing technology to achieve the next levels of engine performance, thermodynamic efficiency, part consolidation, and sustainability for its customers.

From the Austin studio, Brian shares what makes additive manufacturing (AM) a perfect fit for building rocket engines, Sintavia's unique role at the crossroads of aerospace innovation and additive expertise, and how Sintavia is helping the aerospace industry overcome resistance to change. In addition, he describes how AM achieves new levels of sustainability for manufacturers and their customers, how Sintavia is using AM to enable next-generation aerospace innovations from fully electric aircraft to space travel, and the emerging AM capabilities and materials he is excited about.

Comments about the show or wish to share your AM journey? Contact us at [email protected]. The Additive Snack Podcast is brought to you by EOS.

Key Takeaways:

[1:53] Brian explains that multi-generational modality changes in aerospace are what excites him.

[4:30] How Sintavia differentiates themselves and their impact on the aerospace industry.

[8:17] What Brian considers barriers to AM adoption and how Sintavia overcomes the barriers.

[10:13] How AM is helping to enable sustainable manufacturing technologies and how Sintavia is approaching new applications.

[22:12] The AM incentives that will transform the traditionally conservative aerospace industry.

[26:09] How the ever-evolving AM industry’s emerging capabilities will impact the aerospace industry and what changes Brian envisions for the future of space travel.

Shareables:

“I was first introduced to AM in 2011 when I was running a jet engine repair company and toured a competitor in Bavaria.” — Brian Neff, CEO, Sintavia

“Sintavia is a combination of a company that understands aerospace quality, understands additive technology, and brings them together in two very important and critical product categories which are the next generation of flight and launch engines and the next generation of heat exchangers to cool them.”— Brian Neff, CEO, Sintavia

“In 2019, we came up with the AMGTA. The whole purpose of the AMGTA is to take a very hard, very accurate look at how the technology [AM] is more sustainable, and create pathways and strategies for companies, using specific raw additive technologies, to use those properly.” — Brian Neff, CEO, Sintavia

“100% of all private commercial rocket engines, at least the thrust chambers for those, are printed. 100% across the industry of the eight companies that have either launched into space or are about to launch into space every single one of those rockets is printed.”— Brian Neff, CEO, Sintavia

“Sustainability to me is the other side of operational efficiency.” — Brian Neff, CEO, Sintavia

Next Episode

How Startups are Shaping the Future of Additive Manufacturing

You no longer have to be a billion-dollar behemoth to enter and impact the additive manufacturing (AM) field. There is a need for new thinking, new ideas, and new approaches for solving both industrial and major global issues, and startups are shaping the industry far more than they get credit for. In this episode, Host Fabian Alefeld speaks with Arno Held, Managing Partner of AM Ventures about the startups his team is funding and how their innovative impacts are shaping the future of AM.

During today's episode, Fabian talks to Arno about some exciting trends and industry insights AM Ventures has identified in recent years, the necessary innovations in technology, materials, applications, and software essentials for success. Arno busts a few AM myths and offers a glimpse into his thoughts about post-processing and post-build automation opportunities.

Comments about the show or wish to share your AM journey? Contact us at [email protected]. The Additive Snack Podcast is brought to you by EOS.

Key Takeaways:

[3:01] After speaking with hundreds of startups, Arno shares exciting trends popping up in the AM space.

[10:35] Innovative designs offer opportunities for alternative materials in AM applications.

[15:29] Design software is finally catching up to the potential of AM technology.

[18:59] With new complexities come new responsibilities but the possibilities of AM are endless.

[20:03] Technologies that may positively impact the advancement of AM technology.

[23:57] Experienced and hopeful are the two most common types of pitches AM Ventures is approached with and Arlo’s advice for startups.

Shareables:

“A big part of AM Ventures’ mission is we want to support industrial additive manufacturing startups all around the world.” — Arno Held, Managing Partner, AM Ventures

“My advice for startups — Find a real problem and companies who are willing to pay money for it to be solved.”— Arno Held, Managing Partner, AM Ventures

“We have software out there that is utilizing the freedom of design our technology enables.” — Arno Held, Managing Partner, AM Ventures