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NMTC-3D-Printing-Presentation.pdf

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MEETING TOPIC
Most of you never witnessed the birth of Xerography and its off-spring, our now ubiquitous 2-dimensional  office printer, but you will witness something incredibly bigger in potential, today, July 11, 2013.

The evolution of office printing has taken a futuristic leap with 3D Printing, and it’s becoming affordable and the learning curve is collapsing.

If you can design something, you can build it – there’s no additional cost in complexity.

With 3D printing, making a single custom product is no more expensive per unit than making 10 or 100. For example, while it is now possible to make a million car frames or plastic cups using a 3D printer, it will more likely be used in applications that require customization, such as product prototypes, office gadgets, smart phone and tablet cases/covers, medical implants and prosthetics and even personalized jewelry and promotional business products. Manufacturing will also be revolutionized.

The availability of these systems, for both industrial and personal uses, allows just about anyone to create their own model or product, even start a business with them.

The industry is expected to continue to grow very quickly, with the sale of products and services worldwide estimated to be $3.7bn in 2015 and close to $10bn by decade’s decade’s end.

Using the analogy that 20-30 years ago, there weren’t any [personal computers] and no Internet and printers themselves were huge, expensive and mostly leased machines, yet, here we are. 3D Printing is at the beginning of that 20-30 projected future.

Get ideas on how this technology will give you a competitive edge, speed up your decision-making processes by seeing things in 3 dimensions and unleash your creative people to develop income generating concepts never thought of before.

In all, it’s a focused blast of the power of 3D printing, looking to its future.

PRESENTERS:

Mark Butkiewicz at Survice Engineering along with the world-class 3D printing and additive manufacturing capability of the Edgewood Chemical & Biological Center.

Mark is currently the Corporate Director for Metrology Business Development at defense contractor, SURVICE Engineering, exploring new opportunities in laser scanning and reverse engineering. In addition, he oversees the Applied Technology Operation of SURVICE which focuses on research and development.

Bradley Ruprecht is an Engineering Technician/ Senior Model Maker Rapid Technologies Branch, Advanced Design and Manufacturing Division (ADM) the Prototype Integration Facility of the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at APG.

Bradley is also adjunct faculty at Towson University as part of the Interdisciplinary Object Design program, teaching mold making and urethane casting.

Ruprecht is also one of the first five people to win the coveted Dinosaur Award for the Polyjetting Additive Manufacturing Process from the Additive Manufacturing User Group.

And most interestingly, volunteers at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and for the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central, helping the Smithsonian make those wonderful exhibits we all enjoy at the various Smithsonian museums.

AMSAA-Presentation-to-NMTC-13June13.pdf

This meeting sponsored by Freedom Federal, ‘Harford County’s Better Way To Bank’

The meeting offered broad insight into a key influencer of the Army’s procurement process.  AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity) Headquarters is located at APG.  AMSAA conducts critical analyses to provide state-of-the-art analytical solutions to senior level Army and Department of Defense officials.  AMSAA’s responsive systems analysis supports the “Equipping” and “Sustaining” of weapons and materiel for our Soldiers in the field as well as our Future Army Force.

Our guest speaker is Dr. David Mortin, Chief, Reliability Branch at AMSAA.  

Dr.  Mortin is responsible for identifying improvements that will result in increased Army and Department of Defense weapon system reliability. Mortin’s branch is the lead for the Army’s Physics-of-Failure Program, co-lead for the Army’s Center for Reliability Growth, and Department of the Army Executive Agent for Reliability and Maintainability Standardization.

He is one of 16 AMC 2012 Louis Dellamonica Award winners, Mortin was recognized as a top employee out of 70,000 across the command. The Louis Dellamonica Award is presented annually to those who have significantly contributed to AMC’s mission and overarching goals and objectives for the year.

His talk will focus on how  AMSAA is developing solutions to make Army and DoD systems more reliable for our soldier and more affordable for the Department. 

Download a PDF of this Presenation

This meeting sponsored by Freedom Federal, ‘Harford County’s Better Way To Bank’

The meeting offered broad insight into a key influencer of the Army’s procurement process.  AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity) Headquarters is located at APG.  AMSAA conducts critical analyses to provide state-of-the-art analytical solutions to senior level Army and Department of Defense officials.  AMSAA’s responsive systems analysis supports the “Equipping” and “Sustaining” of weapons and materiel for our Soldiers in the field as well as our Future Army Force.

Our guest speaker is Dr. David Mortin, Chief, Reliability Branch at AMSAA. 

Dr.  Mortin is responsible for identifying improvements that will result in increased Army and Department of Defense weapon system reliability. Mortin’s branch is the lead for the Army’s Physics-of-Failure Program, co-lead for the Army’s Center for Reliability Growth, and Department of the Army Executive Agent for Reliability and Maintainability Standardization.

He is one of 16 AMC 2012 Louis Dellamonica Award winners, Mortin was recognized as a top employee out of 70,000 across the command. The Louis Dellamonica Award is presented annually to those who have significantly contributed to AMC’s mission and overarching goals and objectives for the year.

His talk will focus on how  AMSAA is developing solutions to make Army and DoD systems more reliable for our soldier and more affordable for the Department. 

NMTC Board member, Dr Stephen Pannell, President of Cecil College told the many assembled at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Cecil College Engineering and Math Building Wednesday afternoon, that he’s very excited and that this building represents a lot of work and support, especially for students of engineering, science and math. It is a great day with a lot of strong partnerships.

NMTC Executive Director John Casner, also attending, echoes those sentiments as well. From NMTC’s strong advocacy position for STEM Education, it was rewarding to learn students will now be able to earn a 4 year engineering degree, through an Articulation Agreement with Frostburg State, without leaving the Cecil College campus.

The 28,683 square-foot building will provide space for the expanding course offerings by Cecil College in engineering, science, math and physics.

About 62.90 percent or $14,776,000 of the $24.49-million project will be funded by the Maryland Community College Grant Program, while 37.10 percent or $8,716,000 will be funded by the county. The anticipated completion date for the project is August 2014. It will be the first building in Cecil County to attain LEED silver certification, with its green roofing trays over an SBS-modified Bituminous membrane roof and block stone and glass walls.

The NMTC Members Meeting this month hosted one of APG’s best and brightest engineering directors; Ms Jill Smith, Director, CERDEC ( Communications, Electronics Research Center), to share where this cornerstone of the Army warfighter’s electonic  ‘eyes and ears’ is heading. A downloadable link to her presentation is listed below.

Ms Smith flanked (on the left) by Jeff Hinte, NMTC Board Advisor
and Tom Bachman, NMTC Member .

Take aways from the meeting were:

• The Army cannot sustain the ‘box in the truck’ concept for each function; driven by warfighter requests in time of active war.
• Sustainability and SWaP (Size,Weight and Power) are drivers for future products
• Common Operating Environment (COE) is the focus going forward, and this will trickle down and affect the acquistion process.
• Defense Contractors should think more like Apple (or Android supported companies), to succeed in this anticipated COE
• Educators should structure, encourage multi-disiplinary degrees

Download Ms Smith’s presentation here:

PDF Version – CERDEC-NMTC-final.pdf

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