An Ode to Additive

In February 2023, John Barnes opened up a panel dialogue at Additive Manufacturing Methods with a poem. I forgot the brilliance of poetry and thought it was a wonderful solution to seize an viewers for a pending dialog. Since then, I’ve been ready for my second.

What chances are you’ll find out about me is that I’ve spent my profession in additive manufacturing gross sales and advertising. What you most likely don’t know is that certainly one of my bucket-list gadgets is to current a self-written poem throughout a poetry slam. It’s the mixture of creativity and worry that I hope to problem myself with at some point.

As a marketer, my job is to creatively attain the target market with efficient messaging that influences motion on behalf of my purchasers. I really like what I do and generally, I get to actually push my creativity and that’s the stuff that basically will get me up within the morning. My “Ode to Additive” is my inventive intersection between private {and professional} paths. I took a swing and I hope that you just benefit from the change-up.

Thanks, John Barnes, for the inspiration.

Oh additive, oh additive, the trade that expands

Applied sciences, supplies, guarantees, and hope

Oh additive, oh additive, the exaggerated calls for

The countless cliches, platitudes and tropes

Business 4 level O

and the manufacturing revolution

The digitization of the manufacturing unit

That reduces all air pollution

The on-demand manufacturing

Of components on the level of want

Or possibly it’s building

At unimaginable speeds

We’re an trade rising

Of that I’m so certain

However what I’m not figuring out…

How will we endure?

Competitors is plentiful

With expertise overlaps

Who’s getting funded?

And who’ll have the final chortle?

Talks of consolidations

Mergers and acquisitions

Investor obligations

Shares and strategic positions

Oh additive, oh additive, the trade that expands

The analysis, developments, and use case functions

Oh additive, oh additive, you continue to have many followers

The engineers and lovers that’ll final for generations

There are those that push the boundaries

On supplies and designs

And those that’ll by no means stop

Coloring proper outdoors the traces

We thanks to your service

And dedication to the craft

Those that protect us

Afloat on this humorous raft

Impacting main industries

Like healthcare and dentistry

Or aerospace manufacturing

With state-of-the-art chemistry

Excessive efficiency metallic powders

Carbon fiber mixtures

Numerous engineering hours

Devoted to tooling, jigs, and fixtures

Oh additive, oh additive, the trade that expands

Cheers to the engineering consultants, novices, and professionals

Oh additive, oh additive, I consider we’re in good arms,

With a wholesome optimism with limitless unknowns

Ryan Hayford, Founding father of Hayford Consulting, can be taking part on the upcoming Additive Manufacturing Methods enterprise summit in New York, February 6 to eight, 2024. Hayford can be moderating “Panel 1: Publish-Processing: State of the Artwork.”