Binder Jet

Beta Partnership Program

For the ready.

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Binder Jet Beta Why partner with GE?

• GE’s ~$2B+ investment into technology, development, and
industrialization leads the industry
Aside from Aerospace and Medical, most industries have struggled to produce economically
• he only manufacturer of equipment that is producing high volume
viable metal additive parts. While additive manufacturing has the potential to significantly
additive parts today
impact one’s business case, it is not usually “core” to their operations. Given issues such as
• Partnership goal is to compress 20+ years of additive industrialization
the complexity of the technology and process, the need for new quality control processes,
down to less than three years for our partners
and the knowledge curve associated with any new technology, additive manufacturing is an
• Strong partner who will stand by its commitments
exceedingly difficult area to “go it alone.” Given these fundamental challenges, there but a
few truly industrialized additive companies in the market today.

We are here to change that and are doing so with a select group of partners. It is time for
additive to show its true value and impact the balance sheet in a significant and positive WITHOUT GE*
way. You are here because we feel our companies have the great potential to work together 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028+ • Many year effort

in a co-development, knowledge share relationship to fully realize the transformative R&D / EXPERIMENTATION
• Large investment(s) + unknowns
• Many challenges & pitfalls
benefits of additive. By leveraging our binder jetting technology and our extensive LOW-RISK, INITIAL TESTING
• Significant resource need
experience in the metal additive field, we hope to collaboratively a.) condense the timeline PROCESS REFINING &
PRODUCTION PLANNING • Competitive disadvantage
for capitalizing on additive in your industry and b.) greatly reduce the uncertainties and risk • Similar to GE’s journey
PART QUALIFICATION & RAMP-UP
*Estimates based on GE’s industrialization curve
that are inherent with all high-return, transformative technologies.

CUSTOMER + GE
• Significant timeline reduction

8+ 3
2020 2021 2022
• Small investment vs. going alone
TECH DEV.
• Drastic risk reduction
QUAL & LRIP
YEARS • Embedded GE resources
PRODUCTION • Competitive leap
READINESS
• Faster, cleaner adoption

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Production Development
Here’s what you can expect during our work together:

Phase 1: Part Development

1-2 Binder Jet units
• Embedded GE design and engineering teams drive
additive enablement
• Part geometry and material property
development
• Prototyping/low-rate printing for testing/validation
• OEE data monitored to build out needed platform
improvements
• Development of machine and process towards
a production needs (machine, software, binder,
process, and materials)
• Co-development and option to utilize existing
global GE infrastructure Strategic partnership profile
PARTNER GE ADDITIVE
• First mover in Binder Jet technology based on • BETA testing to full volume production with our
Phase 2: Pilot Line business case partners in a defined timeline
4-8 Units (volume/parts dependent) • Internal part development IP + design learnings • Accelerated and focused development of machine
• Scale to binder jet pilot lines • GE Additive design engineering support technology to solve partners production needs
• Machine to machine variability, scalability, • Industrialization of machine process, materials, • Partner to collaborate on automation needs at
yield, and throughput monitored to prioritize and equipment to meet production levels industry level production
industrialization work • Part cost out + performance improvements • Accelerate additive production in market
• Platform maturity achieved • Product and brand differentiation • Co-marketing value
• More parts added in development phases • Quicker to market
• Automation concepts testing • Design flexibility
• True ROI for mass produced additive parts

NEXT STEPS:
Phase 3: Factory Solution As we are already working with the first waveof select partners, we have limited availability left and are
12+ Binder Jet units targeting to solidify the remaining ~3-4 partnerships by end of Q2 2021. Given the nature of the proposed
• Automation solutions developed with customers partnership, we recommend the following in short order:
per industry
• Software industrialized 1.) Customer senior leadership meeting to get buy-in on strategic partnership as well as support for due
• Customer can choose to build factory internally diligence effort.
or outsource scaled production to other early 2.) Joint product breakout and discovery workshop to identify high value additive projects. (at no charge)
partners of GE Additive 3.) Joint business case development (NPV return) to prioritize projects and justify investment. (at no charge)
4.) Customize development plan and partnership scope to maximize partnership potential.

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5.) Contractual agreement prior to end of Q2 2021.
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 Are you ready?
To rethink co-development and partnerships.
To accelerate production and shorten lead times.
To improve performance and reduce costs.
To look forward, not back.

When you’re ready to optimize your business with metal additive,

the people who pioneered its full production are ready to help.

Let’s go. Talk to GE today.

For the Ready.

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