I agree with Camilo: this profile was great Anna-Sofia! I particularly liked your point that Pantheon is aiming to create parts you can trust with your life. That seems to be the ultimate goal of having this kind of printing technology; I hope Pantheon succeeds in their quest. My mental model about 3D printing was still stuck in the hobbyist-plus-basic-manufacturing mindset. This piece helped show me that this isn't the case!
Wow. What a story. I'm curious of Bob's and Alex's background--I'm a bit astonished that these two software engineers ended up doing this kind of work and breaking some of manufacturing's long standing problems. This affirms my belief that if you had more people building "bytes" to build "atoms," manufacturing would get the transformation everyone hopes, but hasn't quite come.
And when we think about industrialization (the trendy topic with tariffs), THIS is what I think we need to focus on building. Not moving the Chinese factory here, but to build the factory of the future.
I'll be rooting on Pantheon. I have this crazy dream where I think the future will look like small factories, no bigger than a cobbler's store, and being able to place/pick-up an order in a matter of hours or a couple of days. I think this will happen with clothing as well.
The one thing I was left wondering is how they think about material sourcing for their filaments and how sustainability works into this component. I don't expect them to tackle ALL problems, but I'm wondering whether they see any natural fibers as alternatives to plastic, and whether those can be used by Pantheon's printers.
I agree with Camilo: this profile was great Anna-Sofia! I particularly liked your point that Pantheon is aiming to create parts you can trust with your life. That seems to be the ultimate goal of having this kind of printing technology; I hope Pantheon succeeds in their quest. My mental model about 3D printing was still stuck in the hobbyist-plus-basic-manufacturing mindset. This piece helped show me that this isn't the case!
Wow. What a story. I'm curious of Bob's and Alex's background--I'm a bit astonished that these two software engineers ended up doing this kind of work and breaking some of manufacturing's long standing problems. This affirms my belief that if you had more people building "bytes" to build "atoms," manufacturing would get the transformation everyone hopes, but hasn't quite come.
And when we think about industrialization (the trendy topic with tariffs), THIS is what I think we need to focus on building. Not moving the Chinese factory here, but to build the factory of the future.
I'll be rooting on Pantheon. I have this crazy dream where I think the future will look like small factories, no bigger than a cobbler's store, and being able to place/pick-up an order in a matter of hours or a couple of days. I think this will happen with clothing as well.
The one thing I was left wondering is how they think about material sourcing for their filaments and how sustainability works into this component. I don't expect them to tackle ALL problems, but I'm wondering whether they see any natural fibers as alternatives to plastic, and whether those can be used by Pantheon's printers.
Nice job, Anna-Sofia!