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Selling 3D printers

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Kamran Forghani Laguna Niguel, CA

Hi- I am a business development and operations specialist for an engineering consulting company in Orange County. I work with the additive manufacturing team. One of my responsibilities is to support the sale of 3D printers.

Goal: To start selling 3D printers at military installations nation wide.

The benefits are endless:

The military can be more efficient and reduce cost.

Service members would learn/operate the machines, and when they are ready to transition out of the service, they have skills that employers can understand.

Any suggestion or thoughts?

Thank you,

Kamran Foghani
Navy Damage Control-men

15 August 2017 2 replies Networking

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Advisor

Heather Gillbanks Houston, TX

3D printing - only 1 aspect of Advanced/ Additive Manufacturing - is a growing area, and a skill set that will be/ is in demand in the civilian sector. Good for you, for trying to make this available!

I would suggest you ensure that the printers they learn on are market standard --> niche providers are a tough sell when it comes time to finding a job.

17 August 2017 Helpful answer

Advisor

John Green Cary, NC

I don't know about your goal, did you mean in the AAFES malls ?

One sale call you could make is to Raju Patel near you in Orange County. Raju Patel is CTO of PIPELINE, a maker of Nuclear Power plant automation software, and some of their upcoming applications may need to make use of 3D printing.

PIPELINE provides advanced technology solutions that enable organizations to optimize the performance of their work planning, scheduling and execution. Our solutions focus on the improvement of plant shutdown/turnarounds, capital projects and maintenance work. PIPELINE's patented Syntempo® technology enables new levels of work execution performance by automating the collection of work progress from the field, performing real-time schedule-impact analysis, and recommending dynamic reallocation of resources based on the most efficient path.

Pipeline Group, Inc.
2850 Red Hill, Suite 110
Santa Ana, California 92705, USA

If Raju asks, you can say I referred you.

16 August 2017 Helpful answer

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