# How to Start Your Additive Manufacturing Journey with Wilderich Heising

- Show: [Additive Snack](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack)
- Published: 2020-12-15
- Length: 24m
- Episode: 1
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2020-12-15-how-to-start-your-additive-manufacturing-journey-with-wilderich-heising
- Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ff260fa0

## Summary

Wilderich Heising, a partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), discusses the strategic integration of additive manufacturing (AM) into traditional production environments. He outlines how AM creates value in sales, R&D, and production by enabling weight reduction, customization, and decentralized supply chains, while noting the industry's recent contraction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Heising advises organizations to start with pilot cases that solve specific pain points, using technology screening tools to identify suitable parts and technologies before scaling. Looking forward, he predicts AM will capture 1-2% of the $250-350 billion manufacturing market within 15 years by complementing, rather than replacing, conventional methods.

## Chapters

- [0:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2020-12-15-how-to-start-your-additive-manufacturing-journey-with-wilderich-heising#t=5) Introduction and Value Propositions of Additive Manufacturing
- [5:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2020-12-15-how-to-start-your-additive-manufacturing-journey-with-wilderich-heising#t=324) Impact of COVID-19 on the AM Market and Industries
- [11:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2020-12-15-how-to-start-your-additive-manufacturing-journey-with-wilderich-heising#t=718) Strategy for Starting an AM Journey: Pilots and Screening
- [18:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2020-12-15-how-to-start-your-additive-manufacturing-journey-with-wilderich-heising#t=1138) Future Outlook: Industrialization and the Smart Factory

## Topics

- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)
- [Manufacturing partners & offshoring](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/manufacturing-partners)
- [Policy, trade & tariffs](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/policy-trade-and-tariffs)
- [Growth, exits & acquisitions](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/growth-exits-and-acquisitions)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Boston Consulting Group (company)
- Formnext (other)

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