WBSP070: Grow Your Business by Mitigating Financial Risks Through Experimental Design and Additive Manufacturing w/ Kevin Mako

With new trends and technologies such as additive manufacturing and experimental design, it's never been this easy to launch and disrupt a hardware product category. The traditional manufacturers that are slow in taking advantage of these trends run a risk of being disrupted and become irrelevant in their market. The new trends require manufacturers to get inspired by the newer disruptive companies from their markets and be corporate intrapreneurs by changing their internal R&D workflows and capabilities.

In today's episode, we have our guest Kevin Mako, who discusses how experimental design and additive manufacturing can help mitigate financial risks with innovative projects. He also discusses several technologies and trends that have been driving faster innovation in the manufacturing sector. Finally, he discusses what financial executives look for in a pitch and how engineering workflow changes with additive manufacturing methodology.

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Chapters

• 0:22 Intro
• 2:47 Personal journey and current focus
• 4:37 Perspective on Growth
• 6:08 Risk mitigation opportunities with additive manufacturing
• 8:56 Experimental design with additive manufacturing
• 21:19 Technical underpinnings of additive manufacturing
• 24:58 How additive manufacturing can help expedite business case development and innovation
• 27:46 Additive manufacturing workflow
• 34:34 Closing thoughts
• 35:38 Outro