Experience
Stephen is a qualified, professional mechanical engineer with more than thirty years experience of working in the automotive industry and more than nine years experience of working with 3D printing and additive manufacturing.
He has experience in using both polymer and metal 3D printing technologies and is ideally placed to help you with onboarding with this exciting manufacturing technology.
Stephen has been supporting those adopting 3DP for many years across a range of industries as he brings his broad engineering knowledge to help people find out where it fits within their business. Whilst the technology is exciting it’s what you do with it that’s most important to Stephen, so he is very much focused on successful adoption that will provide the necessary effective return on investment.
Adopting and using 3DP/AM can feel like completing a jigsaw puzzle at times and Stephen is able to help with seeing the overall picture and how it relates to your business.
He has a wealth of experience when it comes to application development and his knowledge of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) provides the guidance needed to take advantage of what the technology can offer and the innovation that it can support.
Stephen also has a sharp focus on optimization. That can be via the use of topology optimization or generative design for the application, through to the optimization of the printing process itself. All of these skills and knowledge can help you to build the best possible business case for the return on investment that can result from adoption.
Stephen truly believes that there are four essential elements in the successful adoption of 3DP/AM. Understanding hardware, software, and materials are the three elements that are most often focussed upon, but “support” is the crucial fourth element that he can provide, which can make all the difference.
Areas of expertise:
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Project Management
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Business Case Preparation
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Design & Simulation
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Application Engineering
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Process & Materials
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Data Preparation
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Machine Operation
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Post-Processing
Application expertise
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Industrial general
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Automotive
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Commercial general
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