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The printing future has already begun reshaping product manufacturing!

The future of manufacturing has arrived bringing waste reduction, complex customization, and fast prototyping in the process. It is 3D Printing or one can call it as “Additive Manufacturing” which has come a long way from being a theoretical concept to reality.

As you are reading this, 3D printers are creating new products and consequently, shaping our future. They have proved their essentiality in many industries including aviation, education and, most importantly, healthcare.

We, the team of Mirror Review, are really excited to introduce our latest magazine issue, “The 10 Pioneering 3D Printing Solution Providers To Opt For In 2019”, featuring Terrafilum™ Engineered Filaments as the Cover Story. Terrafilum™ is satisfying clients’ 3D printing needs with one of the highest quality eco-friendly filament solutions. Born out of a passion for Business, Manufacturing, and Golf, Chris Jackson, the Founder of Terrafilum™ formulated the 3D printing concept with his prior 30+ years of experience and hard life lessons.

In addition to the inspiring story of Chris and Terrafilum, I feel privileged to present interesting journeys of leading 3D printing solution providers which are uplifting the manufacturing capabilities to an advanced level.

To inform our valuable readers about the latest trends and technologies that are empowering human race, we have featured Ricky Solorzano (CEO of Allevi), explaining the use of 3D bioprinters and bioinks to cure disease, test novel drugs, and eliminate the organ waiting list.

As our promise to offer out-of-the-box and interesting articles, we bring you two highly curated articles on the “Severity of the VUCA World” and “Autonomous Vehicles with AI.” I hope you will be amazed by reading this powerful and comprehensive magazine issue.

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CONTENTS TERRAFILUM

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Crafting Eco-friendly Materials To Augment 3D Printing Technology

Cover Story

10 Articles

28 Smart Cars 4 Ways Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving Innovation With ArtiďŹ cial Intelligence

38 Leadership Challenges The Severity Of The Vuca World On The Corporates. What It Demands From Their Leaders?

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3D Compare:

The Leading Firm In OnDemand Manufacturing

ANYCUBIC:

Making 3D Printers Precise, Reliable And Affordable For Everyone

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Filabot: Enhancing The 3D Printing Industry By Providing Access To More Materials

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JAMPT Corporation: Pioneering The Revolutions In Metal-3D Printing Technology

Lezar3D:

Utilizing 3D Printing Technology To Turn Clients' Imagination Into Reality

36 Expert's Views

Allevi:

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Empowering Other’s To Build With Life

Cover Story

Crafting Eco-friendly Materials To Augment 3D Printing Technology

Chris Jackson Founder

Cover Story

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nitiated in 1980s from a flawed machine, the 3D printing technology now creates anything that one has in mind. It is one of the most rapidly thriving technologies, which can produce highly complex products for almost every industry. What started as an instrument for research and development, has flourished into a crucial business tool today.

The applications of 3D printing are innumerable and there are limitless possibilities for creating splendid and highly accurate 3D printed products and art pieces.

However, contiguous to the evolving printing technology, equivalent efforts are required for the development and the selection of material being used for printing. The material with right properties must be selected in order to ensure print process quality along with minimized environmental impact. Terrafilum™ Engineered Filaments is a company that was established with a goal to offer the users with highest quality eco-friendly filament solutions satisfying all of their printing needs.

Incepted with a Selfless Approach Though Chris Jackson, the Founder of Terrafilum™ Engineered Filaments, started the firm with a thought to

Together we will take 3D printing forward into a waste-free future where anything can be printed without any harm to Mother Earth.

help people in solving problems with his material knowledge, there is much more interesting story behind the inception of the Terrafilum™.

Chris was born with a physical disability that affected his ability to utilize his forearm and hands, but he has never considered this as a limitation, in fact, he had that spark to try and do everything that everybody does. He believed that with the power of honesty, optimism, planning and energy; one could do anything and conquer any problem. Today, with his extreme efforts and perseverance, he has become a skilled coach, mentor and business leader with over 30 years of experience as a Chemical Engineer. Throughout his professional journey, Chris has worked in diverse fields such as Chemicals, Plastics, Healthcare and Custom Manufacturing.

Along with business and manufacturing, this determined leader has tremendous passion for golf. He has always held his golf clubs in a distinctive way by anchoring it around his right arm. The uses of standard clubs limited his ability and forced him to fashion a new design for his grip. Working with a major golf equipment supplier, he realized that he was not alone with this struggle. He developed a prototype by working for hours with an

No matter where you are in your 3D printing journey, Terrafilum is ready to serve and help you bring your customize vision to life.

equipment designer and various other grip solutions were fabricated until the final design was put to the test. As a result, Chris came up with different designs and polymer formulations that provided him the strength he needed from the material, along with the chemical resistance and a suitable coating. Having solved his problem, he realized that if he could coordinate himself then he could help many others with his material knowledge. A few months later in 2017, he established Terrafilum™ to take his good thought to the next step.

Serving Eco-Friendly 3D Printing Filaments Terrafilum™ with its ecologically friendly approach incorporates all the innovations and ideas into manufacturing and consulting services to support clients in creating sustainable solutions with a spool and material recycle program. It creates several types of recycled and recyclable filaments that meet customer demand of any level. Moreover, its team works with customers to create exclusive and eco-friendly products, which are carefully tested to ensure that the appropriate amount of recycled material is used to produce earth-

friendly filaments that would remain steady throughout the 3D printing process. Furthermore, the firm with a green vision has its own custom inventory management system and has integrated lean principles for waste minimization in the manufacturing processes.

Aiming Betterment of Clients along with the Environment While designing a new product, Terrafilum™ focuses on certain crucial factors such as printability, physical properties of material, repeatability and sustainability.

Along with these factors, its team also tries to generate an output that meet the customer’s demands and fit for a variety of applications. With such a breadth of quality offerings, Terrafilum™ targets its offerings towards small and large manufacturers, educational institutions, industrial consumers, and makers aiming for greater sustainability.

Moreover, the team of Terrafilum™ offers individual customer consultative services for any size project and can provide a complete line of market studies and

Cover Story

We intend to stay on the leading edge of this exciting new industry by continuing to stay earth conscious while developing newer, cleaner, and more sustainable solutions to all of our clients 3D printing needs.

information along with industry news and advances. The firm’s ability to collaborate and consult with manufacturers to structure raw materials and customengineered filament solutions makes it stand apart from its rivals.

An Overachieving Persona Leading Terrafilum™ Chris Jackson has always been fascinated by the advances in printing technology and material versatility.

As he has an educational background in chemical engineering along with business experience, it has stimulated him tremendously to move further in this field. Further, the ever-learning man has not stopped there. In his mid-career he decided to get a master’s degree in business with an emphasis in finance. In addition, Chris has also achieved Master Black Belt status in Six Sigma and LEAN, which make him a quality fanatic.

Having achieved such accreditations throughout his journey, Chris is always ready to learn new things and savors the challenge to figure out how things can work.

At Terrafilum™, he handles Research & Development and Marketing & Sales. As these activities demand time, work and presence, Chris finds it an exciting challenge to balance job activities of these very distinct departments.

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Company Name

Company Info

3D Compare Alexander Ziff Co-founder & CEO

Established in London, UK in 2017, 3D Compare is a platform that compares prices and solutions for the on-demand manufacturing economy. www.3dcompare.com

Anycubic James Ouyang Co-founder

ANYCUBIC Technology Co. Ltd. is serving a vast client base ranging from the big manufacturing plants to individual small businesses and hobbyists www.anycubic3d.com

Filabot Tyler McNaney CEO

Headquartered in Barre, Vermont—Filabot is focused on high-quality product development. www.filabot.com

JAMPT Noritaka Yasuda CEO

Harnessing the potential of 3D printing, JAMPT Corporation (Japan Additive Manufacturing & Processing Technology) is supporting the recovery of Japanese manufacturing and the logistics revolution. www.jampt.jp/en/

Lezar3D Robert Gagnon President

Established in 2014 at Montreal, Quebec, Lezar3D uses the 3D printers to produce models as per specifications given by clients and brings their ideas into reality. www.lezar3d.com

Sinterit Paweł Szczurek CEO & Co-founder

Sinterit is the company based in Kraków (Poland) that specializes in the development of SLS 3d printers. www.sinterit.com

Sintratec Gabor Koppanyi Head of Marketing & Sales

Sintratec breaks down barriers between your imagination and reality. Print functional parts for demanding real-world applications with its advanced additive manufacturing solutions. www.sintratec.com

Terrafilum™ Engineered Filaments Chris Jackson Founder

Terrafilum™ Engineered Filaments is a company that was established with a goal to offer the users with highest quality eco-friendly filament solutions satisfying all of their printing needs. www.terrafilum.com

Weistek Dr. Vicky Chen Founder

Founded in 2011, Shenzhen Weistek CO., LTD is a leading innovator and manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, printing filaments, modeling software and education service platform. www.weistek.net

Zmorph Piotr Wasowski Co-founder

ZMorph is perfect for rapid prototyping, low volume production, and home crafting. www.zmorph3d.com

3D Compare:

The Leading Firm In On-demand Manufacturing

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D printing is considered as one of the most significant technological advancements of the era and has become the most important part of the modern industry. What makes the technology unique is its ability to print complex shapes and interlocking parts without the need for any form of assembly. It has many advantages over the traditional approach but the most important one is its time saving character. It has the ability to create small or complicated shapes at small cost and in short period of time. The technology has proved its importance in various fields such as Medical, Architecture, Construction, Computers, Art & Jewellery, Electronics, Robotics, and many more. Evidently, the technology is disrupting the market with on-demand manufacturing by its side. In ondemand manufacturing, the manufacturer partners with a supplier that has rapid prototyping and low volume production capabilities. Production can be scaled up scaled back as needed. This diminishes the risk of outages as well as wastages resulting in financial savings. The 3D printing industry is getting highly inclined toward the on-demand manufacturing and 3D Compare.com with its world leading on-demand manufacturing platform has established itself as the most prominent firm in the field.

Trustworthy and Transparent Platform to Get Best Finished Products 3D Compare was incepted keeping one aim in mind—to diminish the pain points in manufacturing. Established in London, UK in 2017, 3D Compare is a platform that compares prices and solutions for the on-demand manufacturing economy. It helps the customers with innovative and wide range of technologies and materials to make the 3D product. 3DCompare envisions providing continuously developing on-demand manufacturing market with a trustworthy and transparent site using the tools and resources to get superior objects at the best prices.

Manufacturing Options for Rapid Prototyping 3DCompare has variety of innovative technologies to create

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the desired product. One of them is 3D Printing Prototypes.

This technology works best for complex rapid prototypes and produce results to very fine tolerance keeping low prices. This technology is continuously improving and providing variety of options such as Stereolithography (SL) that uses an ultraviolet laser focused to turn liquid thermoset resin into solids. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) uses nylon-based powder to achieve similar results. One more innovation using atomized metal powder welded into a solid is highly used; it is named as Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). Multi Jet Fusion is used in selective applications of fusing and detailing agent across a bed of nylon powder while Polyjet is nothing but a jet spraying liquid polymer onto a build platform.

One more technique in which 3DCompare has expertise is CNC Machining. This superior process has ability to hold tight tolerance. It can work for extensive range of materials including high-quality metal and plastic parts. CNC machining allows the use of true production grade materials.

Plastic Injection Molding is considered as a stepping stone from prototyping to large scale production. This process allows for repeatable high tolerance and multiple materials.

To achieve comparable results to the final product, it is essential to use same process and materials.

Laser Cutting is used where more complicated and high precision prototype parts are involved as the technology can even cut metals with high accuracy along with stone, glass, wood, plastic, etc. Further, with 3D Scanning, a product or its parts can be reverse engineered to improve it. This is also used for documenting existing products.

3DCompare wants to be the most reliable website for people for ordering 3D Printing, CAD Designing, CNC Machining, Injection Moulding, Laser Cutting, and to reach at that point the firm is working very hard to create the biggest database of manufacturing partners.

Plenty of Reasons to Choose 3DCompare 3DCompare is the best in the on-demand manufacturing and there are several factors contributing to make it the best.

Best Prices The firm delivers the best price for all the rapid prototyping needs. The customer can see different pricing offers in few seconds after uploading the file and can compare the prices instantly.

Verified Suppliers All the suppliers are hand-picked and verified by 3DCompare, ensuring the project is in good hands and the quality is highly controlled by the experienced producers.

Quick Delivery The team of professionals provides innumerable designs for the project. They allot the best delivery time by having parts produced by several suppliers and supports in getting a quick turnaround time from quote to delivery and selecting the delivery date.

Confidentiality The innovation is priceless and the firm treats the project or product information provided by the customers with extreme confidentiality. The privacy policy puts the data at utmost safety.

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More than 200 Materials 3DCompare offers the best materials to fit the needs of the customer. There is wide range of materials to choose from to get the best finished product. MJF Nylon (HP-PA12), SLS Nylon Glassfilled (PA3200 GF), DMLS Aluminum (AISi10Mg), DMLS Maraging Steel (MS1), Polyjet PP-like (Rigur), PLA Plastic, Nylon 6 are some of the high-class materials offered by the company.

Young and Energetic Leader Alexander Ziff, the Co-Founder and CEO of 3DCompare is a young and energetic leader. The career in 3D printing technology suits him perfectly as he comes from the art and design background. He studied in prestigious University of Leeds and earned his Bachelor’s degree in the field of Arts and Design. He also served as President of the University of Leeds Design Society during 2012-2013.

Before establishing his own firm, Alexander was the Marketing & Operation Manager at DCR Ltd., where he was assigned to build the web sales infrastructure for Barratts Shoes and design the site that exhibits what the brand had to offer. He also worked in Email and online marketing department of DCR. Alexander with his expertise in product management and business development is guiding 3DCompare in the journey of getting higher and achieving successes.

All at One Place 3DCompare helps the customer in design and 3D printing along with post-processing. All things are covered so that the customer can save time.

At 3D Compare, we offer the best on-demand manufacturing platform to get products manufactured at best prices with the best quality.

Alexander Ziff

Co-founder & CEO

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ANYCUBIC: Making 3D Printers Precise, Reliable And Affordable For Everyone

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he rise of 3D printing or additive manufacturing has highly simplified the creation of extremely complex geometries and structures that are impossible to create using traditional manufacturing methods. Initially used for fast prototyping and research purposes, 3D printing brings great freedom to design highly customized products complementing the need of modern customers. Today, as various business entities are harnessing additive manufacturing to unfold its unseen sides, this technology is rapidly being evolved in terms of printing speed, accuracy, materials, and costeffectiveness. Having seen the huge potential of 3D printing, Shenzhen ANYCUBIC Technology Co. Ltd. was born with the slogan—“Born to create, created to imagine.” ANYCUBIC always seeks the development step-by-step, and as a startup, its team has spent all of their efforts on R&D, products optimization, and customer service.

Justifying Self-presence with Successful Offerings Since the inception of ANYCUBIC in 2015, its team has noticed the explicit growth in the market size of consumer 3D printers. Presently, it is serving a vast client base ranging from the big manufacturing plants to individual small businesses and hobbyists. Therefore, its team believes that 3D printing at its full potential can be used in various fields such as industrial manufacturing, medicine, architecture, education, art design, and household application.

As for a product-maker, it is momentous to understand the client need and fulfill them; the customer-centric firm focuses on products and user experience, keeping the scenario of this dynamic global market in the mind.

Moreover, while designing a new product, its team

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considers many factors including cost, logistics, safety, etc. In recent times, the innovative solution provider’s most popular offerings—ANYCUBIC I3 MEGA and ANYCUBIC PHOTON series have won customers’ trust and are widely being used amongst hobbyists, dentists, prop-makers, jewelers, and architects out there.

A Comprehensive Range of 3D Printing Solutions ANYCUBIC, the firm with a major focus on desktop 3D printers serves a wide range of solutions. In addition to its supreme 3D printer offerings, it also deals with materials and accessories. Its 3D printer range includes LCD Photon, a fully Integrated high-resolution desktop resin 3D printer, I3 Mega—a full metal frame & colorful industrial grade printer with high precision, and Large size Chiron, which is a larger build size 3D printer that provides more space for creation.

Moreover, the firm’s material offerings are Polylactic Acid (PLA), Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), and UV Resin, which come in different portion sizes. In addition, ANYCUBIC also provides its clients with 3D printer accessories such as Platform, Motherboard, Print head & nozzle, Extruder & stepper motor, Linear Guides, and many others. Moreover, the provider of 360degree solutions also deals with Refurnished Printers.

Providing a Good Customer Experience is Paramount For a business organization, to win customers, it is necessary to provide an excellent user experience, which ultimately leads to a satisfied customer. ANYCUBIC believes that 3D printing technology should be accessible and affordable for everybody rather than

being rocket science. With such a belief system, its team always strives to not only bring something new to the market but also to make their offerings easy to use, as they did in the case of ANYCUBIC PHOTON. This product is one of the most affordable resin 3D printers that offer ultra-high details and that too with the least hassle to handle. Moreover, the first-timers are not required to do complex internet connection and debug, and just simply plug-and-play.

In addition to its innovative and user-friendly offerings, ANYCUBIC is also optimizing its supply chains, online markets, and customer service to offer the best value to clients. Notably, the firm’s after-sales and technical support team respond to emails within 24 hours worldwide, which helps their customers solve their product related issues. Besides, ANYCUBIC team also makes YouTube tutorials and runs Facebook support groups, which they think would make their brand stand apart in the long run.

Passion Turned into Profession

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James Ouyang, the Co-founder of ANYCUBIC, is someone who has always thought of being the change rather than expecting it to be done by others. A Ph.D. holder in Chemical & Material Engineering decided to

make the change and enter the new 3D printing business instead of being a lecturer. As ANYCUBIC was founded by a group of childhood buddies, initially, they knew nothing in detail about 3D printing except passion, which was the biggest challenge for them. Speaking of his team’s journey, James says, “It took us ages to make progress on hardware and software development.”

However, he sees that as an advantage, because as a result of that scenario they could develop 3D printers totally from a newbie’s perspective and deliver products to meet the new users’ requirement.

Further, considering ANYCUBIC as a fruit of team efforts, James thanks his talented engineer team, as they did it together in the most arduous circumstances. Today, as ANYCUBIC team of around 300 employees is offering products worldwide, James finds it a bit challenging to manage everything and make decisions being a responsible person. Moreover, though additive manufacturing is going to be widespread in every industry in future, due to the overall high cost and lack of a perfect solution to specific applications, James predicts that only highly customized fields with good profits like aviation, dentists, and jewelers would firstly step into 3D printing.

At ANYCUBIC, we keep focusing on R&D to innovate products that truly meet the customers’ needs and push 3D printing into different fields.

James Ouyang Co-founder

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Filabot:

Enhancing The 3D Printing Industry

By Providing Access To More Materials he advancements in the 3D printing technology are rapidly disrupting the market scenario. It is considered as the most significant technology in additive manufacturing. It is used exceedingly in various fields such as Robotics, Construction, Architecture, Medical, and many more. Most of the research and development companies, production companies, recycling-oriented businesses, colleges & universities are highly inclined to make investments in this technology.

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dedicatedly to advance the science of plastic extrusion for the 3D market. The company is equipped with the best-in-class machining and laboratory equipment, necessary to prototype, test, and continuously improve the system to meet the evolving needs of the clients.

With its plastic to filament approach, Filabot shows respect for the environment through every corporate as well as individual decision and encourages greentechnology.

Importantly, 3D printing is producing a great impact on the manufacturing industry from prototyping to production. This technology is on the verge to replace the traditional and tedious manufacturing processes.

Likewise, the Medical R&D sector is greatly utilizing 3D printing for new developments. Additionally, to attain top quality results in the R&D or manufacturing processes, the ink (filament) used by the 3D printer and its importance cannot be underestimated. Headquartered in Barre, Vermont—Filabot is focused on high-quality product development. The idea behind its inception lies in an environmental cause as it was conceived to develop a machine that could convert plastic input plastics could be newly produced sources or from waste plastic into 3D filament.

Simple and User-friendly Products

Developing Ecologically Responsible and Sustainable Solutions Filabot was established in 2011 and today it is an industry-leading research and development company.

The team of Filabot comprises highly qualified engineers, working for a common goal of providing topgrade 3D printing solutions. The creative team works

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The one thing that Filabot enthusiastically follows is the designing of new products with simplicity and makes most user-friendly products. Their machines are designed to produce 3D filament easily at an affordable price-point. Its ability to extrude plastics enables it to work with others to help them in finding if they can turn material into 3D printing filament. Further, 3D printing has become the best way to prototype and with Filabot’s closed-loop system. It is a cycle where failed prints and old prototypes get recycled back into 3D printing filament.

With its innovative eco-friendly approach, Filabot has succeeded in developing a good client base from the research and development sector, universities & colleges, and many leading companies in the 3D printing industry.

Leader Envisioned to Use Technology for a Noble Cause What fascinates Tyler McNaney; the CEO of Filabot is the fact that the Fused Deposit Material (FDM) and

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D printing enables creating a closed-loop recycling system. This allows the user to take plastics and turn it into filament that can be converted into 3D prints again.

Tyler’s move of creating Filabot to recycle plastic waste named him as amongst the “Most Successful Entrepreneurs of the Next Ten Years” by ‘The World Future Society.’ Recently, in 2018, Forbes magazine featured Tyler in “Forbes 30 Under 30 to Watch: In Manufacturing and Industry.” Filabot has also been published in Popular Science, Fast Company, and Techcrunch for its innovative work. Today, Tyler proudly gives credit for his success to mentors in his life for allowing him to follow his dream and discover several options. It also taught him to be a good leader and gave the motivation to strive hard to move forward and achieve the goal.

Of all the applications of 3D printing, one that has produced a strong impact on Tyler is ‘e-Nable hands.’

When asked more about it, he asserted, “e-Nable hands is a community of individuals who work together to print prosthetic limbs. These limbs are built at over 99% of the cost of conventional limbs. Outgrowing these prosthetic limbs is no longer a problem as it is simple to upgrade.

This community has taken 3D printing and applied it to a real-world problem. This community is fantastic and can truly show the good we can do.”

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Strategy for Staying Ahead Presently, at the Filabot’s office, Tyler has a close group of multitalented team who are actively involved in running marketing meetings to designing the latest products using CAD software to inventing novel things, and building unique projects. Likewise, the rapidly changing technologies make it challenging for Tyler to define and express his vision to the team. Tyler sets his vision according to the latest trends in the 3D printing technology, new innovations or changes made by others in the sector, and the information or feedback received on their products. Therefore, as per these transformations, Tyler makes dynamic and everchanging future strategies for his company.

Filabot always strives to make new advancements in 3D printing technology and is continuously updating its processes to improve the existing products as well as newly planned products. It is always making moves that shift it closer to the goal of recycling the abundant quantity of plastic. The team constantly works to understand the detailed formula so that the extruding of many types of plastics is possible. Also, it actively works with other companies to provide testing services on different materials to see if they can be converted to filaments with Filabot’s system and these associations help in learning more about the product and ways to improve them.

Our Hardware allows for at point recycling creating a closed loop system.

Tyler McNaney

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JAMPT Corporation:

Pioneering The Revolutions In Metal-3D Printing Technology

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ince the prelude of 3D printing (additive manufacturing), its beneficial applications in producing small quantities of complex parts with a higher pace have been noticed among manufacturing circles. Today, 3D printing, particularly metal-3D printing is being used more for industrial products. It has huge potential to be deployed not only in aerospace and medical but also in products for general consumers such as automobiles, industrial machinery, and home appliances.

Moreover, to help overcome numbers of key challenges such as globalization of manufacturing bases, inventory management, logistics efficiency, and inheritance of technology, faced by companies today, additive manufacturing (AM) can be helpful in many ways. Being a game-changing technology, 3D Printing promises to bring the new idea of “agile manufacturing” to many industries.

Though 3D printing is competent in changing the landscape of the manufacturing industry, technologies and manufacturing processes involved in it are yet to be fully optimized in all the fields. The process starting from raw material powder, manufacturing process (forming conditions), and printing equipment to postprocessing—still has rooms for technological progress in the future. Further, as business opportunities could be born in several fields, the 3D printing industry has so much potential to grow in the coming years. Harnessing the potential of 3D printing, JAMPT Corporation (Japan Additive Manufacturing & Processing Technology) is supporting the recovery of Japanese manufacturing and the logistics revolution.

Aim to be a One-Stop Solution Provider United by the strong bonds of ambition, with the aim of becoming the world’s leading AM company, JAMPT was established in 2017 to provide 360° solutions in metal-3D printing. Knowing the fact that covering whole manufacturing process chain is the key when stepping forward with clients, JAMPT covers whole AM value chain and provides one-stop AM service aiming for industrialization of AM technology and commercial production of AM parts, together with its clients.

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More concretely, its services and functions include production of high-quality raw material powder specifically for metal 3D printing, manufacturing process technology applying advanced simulation technology (based on contract manufacturing experience of prototypes), joint development of metal AM parts with clients, joint development of metal AM system/machine, and postprocessing.

A Simplified Approach to New Product Development A manufacturer always creates a product to fill a need or want of its target market. While doing this, it requires a huge capital to develop a whole set of a new product. In the case of JAMPT, it makes the use of Rapid Prototyping (RP) to develop and introduce new products. This is done without making any capital investment for a specific new production line. Therefore, RP is advantageous in reducing the introduction cycle of new products.

Moreover, under the current technological scenario, Rapid Prototyping with metal 3D printing enables superior manufacturing of complicated shapes and difficult-to-work materials compared to other conventional methods.

Therefore, 3D printing is a preferred method by the team of JAMPT, which is useful for assisting their customers from aerospace and medical fields.

A Support System Helping JAMPT to Conquer Challenges As JAMPT was established as a joint venture company combining each partner’s specialty, it faced some challenges initially, where integration of each company’s function in full and utilizing its existing business networks was one of them. Further, as JAMPT aimed at the industrialization of AM rather than just prototyping of products, it is momentous to detect customers’ potential needs precisely and consult them to further pursue the world of metal AM together.

In the beginning, the AM manufacturing method was a novel method for many of JAMPT’s clients. Therefore, in a very first phase of forming an industrial partnership with clients, securing budget from them for the joint

development of AM parts has often been an issue for the company. However, the President and CEO of JAMPT Corporation, Noritaka Yasuda managed and promoted AM projects with JAMPT’s clients with his prior extensive expertise and business relationship in machinery division at a general trading company. Today, his background and business relationships are extensively helping JAMPT to excel and promote AM projects. Additionally, in the last year, Noritaka and his team have successfully installed AM parts into a vehicle which was launched to space. This was a big milestone for Japanese AM market. Furthermore, the torchbearer CEO looks ahead to come up with more real applications to develop with JAMPT’s clients from various industries.

Staircase to Reach New Heights of Success Noritaka wants JAMPT to be useful as a trustworthy development partner for customers seeking to develop practical and mass-producible products utilizing AM technologies. There are two major things, which are helping JAMPT to achieve Noritaka’s desired heights and making it stand ahead in the space it is operating.

First is JAMPT’s relation with Tohoku University. JAMPT works closely with Tohoku University’s Institute of Material Research (IMR) to deliver a rigid technical support system. Being a leading Japanese research institute of metal, IMR plays a vital role in solving customers’ challenges from an academic standpoint. Moreover, the university also supports JAMPT’s approach of working on the functionality of parts with academic backing along with focusing on parts for manufacturability and costeffectiveness.. Notably, this technical relationship with Tohoku University has also enabled JAMPT to optimize manufacturing parameter settings even further and develop high-quality AM parts.

Standing Apart with Uniqueness In the industry evolving with a rapid pace, JAMPT knows how to stand apart from other market players. One of its biggest strengths in the business is capability of making raw material metal powder produced by Plasma Rotating Electrode Process (PREP), which is the best fit to AM. Currently, most entities in the AM industry use traditional metal powder, which was utilized in the historic powder metallurgy industry, such as sintering. However, the team of JAMPT believes that this traditional powder is not optimized for AM as AM process, or 3D printer ideally requires sphericity, satellite-free, and less-gas pore, which is almost realized only by PREP powder.

The second thing that helps JAMPT moving ahead is that its team utilizes the business network of a leading global trading company—Sojitz Corporation—to explore the AM market, following the newest trend of AM, and approaching to potential clients all over the world. Furthermore, to serve its clients the best, JAMPT always works with a clientoriented joint AM parts development mindset. This though system helps it’s the team to make sure that optimized design AM parts are not created just out of their mere imagination, but the idea also fully aligns with the clients’ expectation.

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Apart from that, the firm’s partnership with KOIWAI as a 34% shareholder is also a major factor making it a muscular body, as KOIWAI is the pioneer of AM business in Japan.

Started from a sand mold 3D printer in 2007, KOIWAI embarked to metal 3D in 2012, further, in having been there in conjuncture of establishment of JAMPT, KOIWAI dispatches its skilled engineers to JAMPT today.

As Japan’s first metal AM service bureau, JAMPT is equipped with the latest equipment and full production 3D printing capabilities.

Noritaka Yasuda

President & CEO

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Smart Cars

I is transforming the automotive industry in every way imaginable. From enabling material procurement and predictive maintenance in the manufacturing process to powering autonomous cars, AI is at the heart of it all. The automotive business is among the industries at the vanguard of using AI to mimic, augment, and support the actions of humans as well as leveraging the advanced reaction times and pinpoint precision of machine-based systems. Indeed, today’s semi-autonomous vehicles and the fully autonomous vehicles of the future will rely heavily on AI systems.

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approved”. Last year, Waymo, the company which emerged from Google’s self-driving-car project, officially started its commercial self-driving-car service in the suburbs of Phoenix. Likewise, According to the 2018 KPMG Autonomous Vehicle Readiness Index (AVRI), countries like The Netherlands, Singapore, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, etc. are some of the top prepared countries globally for self-driving vehicles.

Out of which, Netherlands has taken the top spot and is thus the most prepared country for the introduction of selfdriving vehicles.

Although self-driven vehicles might be the most perceptible beneficiaries of AI and there’s more to this. AI change is taking place on all fronts, such as consumer interfaces that identify the preferences of individual drivers, self-learning analytical systems that warn of imminent failures, navigation systems that use real-time data and traffic modeling to shorten travel and ride-hailing applications that maximize the use of the fleet of a cab aggregator. Plus, it is bestowing entirely new ways for people to get around as well as keep them connected, stay on schedule, and secure the driver while driving.

Today, one can imagine a future where carmakers don’t sell cars, but maintain convoys of self-driving vehicles, allowing consumers to use ride-on-demand services. The customer hail a cab controlled by an AI through an AIdriven fleet management system and once inside, other AI systems will personalize the route and infotainment according to customers past preferences. As a customer begin his ride, the cab will communicate with other vehicles around to keep the customer safe. Following are some futuristic developments in autonomous vehicles that are revolutionizing empowering the utilization of selfdrive vehicles.

The Competition is Hard Yet Healthy 1. Response to Gesture Commands Five years ago, autonomous driving has gone from “maybe possible”—“surely possible”—to “commercially 28

The case of a broken traffic light could pose a major

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Ways Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving Innovation With

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

problem for autonomous vehicles that rely on smooth roads and clear signals. To overcome the problem of a missing traffic light, the self-driving car will be utilizing movement detection system to detect and respond to the traffic cop’s arm movements as they wave traffic through a crossroads. The AI in the particular car will be so trained that it will differentiate between a cop and normal human beings for precise response to gesture commands.

Moreover, the software of the car will detect a traffic officer then processes it and waits for the traffic to continue.

2. Adaptive Cruise Control Technology To avoid any collision with other vehicles, new technology is implemented for autonomous vehicles called adaptive cruise control technology. It is a cruise control system with automatic distance control (ACC) which uses long-range radar and laser systems to measure the distance and speed of other cars in their environment. Besides that, it matches the speed of the car in front of the driver by using a range of sensors built into the car which implies that driver doesn’t need to constantly hit the gas and brake on the road. Some systems even allow the car to be completely stopped and then automatically resumed, making a stop and go traffic significantly less frustrating.

3. 360-degree Camera System Replacing human sensory input—eyes and image processing which is done by brain is a mammoth taks to be accomplished in an autonomous vehicle. Therefore, to develop a vision sensor as good as the human eye, artificial intelligence is the prime driver. With a conventional HD camera system, autonomous vehicles may not realize how large the vehicle is during parking. So in this case—if a 360-degree camera setup is combined with clever computing power on each side of the car, it will greatly help the computer to access a virtual top-down view of the driver’s environment.

4. Natural Voice Recognition to Perform Tasks The AI-based infotainment system installed in an autonomous vehicle can allow drivers to send and receive emails, to carry out any internet searches as well as interrelate with their smartphone apps—by using voice commands. Along with a powerful natural voice recognition engine, AI can perform many sophisticated tasks in seconds. For instance, the passenger can command the car to change the location without giving manual inputs on the smartphone. It is just like asking a real human driver and importantly—the AI won’t argue with you like human drivers.

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Smart Cars

The Actual Autonomous Car on the Road—Waymo As mentioned earlier, Waymo is the commercially approved vehicle utilizing Google’s self-driving vehicle exploration. These driverless vehicles have the capability to deliver people from points A to B safely. The 360degree perception technology from Waymo detects pedestrians, other vehicles, cyclists, road work and other obstacles up to a distance of 300 yards. Similarly, the inhouse production system allows Waymo to efficiently integrate its technology to the hardware. Plus, Waymo engineers have also formed a program called Carcraft, a virtual world where Waymo can simulate driving conditions.

Waymo’s AI software crunches data from the vehicle’s Lidar, Radar, and high-resolution cameras, GPS, and cloud services to generate the vehicle’s control signals for operating it. The Waymo project comprises various types of cars with the self-driving tools that include the Toyota Prius, Audi TT, Fiat Chrysler Pacifica, and Lexus RX450h.

Moreover, Waymo has partnered with Intel to use Intel technologies, such as processors, inside the vehicles. The most valuable aspect of AI in automotive applications is

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that it is constantly learning, and adjusting the rules it uses to navigate the road. Each vehicle makes the information it learns available to the rest of the fleet. The result is a virtual neural network of self-driving vehicles that learn as they go.

Conclusion The autonomous vehicle industry is currently drastically revolutionized by AI and supplementary intelligent technologies. Therefore, many tech-giants and major automotive companies have invested heavily in this area.

It’s not only an opportunity for big companies but start-ups also playing a big role in it. Likewise, these developments are not just restricted to enabling autonomous vehicles, but creating optimized development processes for the entire supply chain. The tight integration between the sensor and AI systems also has the potential to offer significant value for the public and enable car manufacturers to gain a competitive advantage in a quickly evolving market place.

In addition, there will be new opportunities, job vacancies and academic courses that the autonomous vehicles will offer to be perfect, errorless, and most importantly—driverless vehicles.

Expert's Views

Empowering Other’s To Build With Life

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llevi is building tools to design and engineer with life. Our 3D bioprinters and bioinks are used by leading researchers all around the world to find solutions to humanity’s most difficult problems - to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life.

Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to design and engineer 3D tissues. We created our desktop 3D bioprinter to be the most versatile, powerful and easy-to-use bioprinter on the market.

Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have become leaders in the biofabrication revolution.

At Allevi, the biggest challenge is definitely the symphony of things that need to work together to make the overall solution work. 3D printing is a mixture of robotics, software, and material science.

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For us we still use robotics and software but our added layer of complexity is that we print cells. And this is truly where we derive our specialty. We’ve learned a lot in the past to be able to print and pattern cells. The next step is really to get the biology to perform and working with biologist around the world is the best way to tackle this.

In terms of the 3D printing industry, the globe is moving towards demands of more regional personalized products as well as thoughts around sustainability. In era where mass manufacturing has become mainstream, the new generations are more conscious of where products are bought, who makes them, and how do they benefit not only themselves but the community. I believe we will see 3D printing continue to take a greater and greater role in providing these more regionalized sustainable products for new market demands.

In terms of Allevi, medicine is also driving in a more personalized direction. Informed patients are understanding that tailored medication will drive more efďŹ cient and effective results for their treatments. This is particularly true when it comes to either more chronic or cancerous diseases. Therefore, 3D bioprinting will allow physicians to be able to print out patient’s disease tissue to study drugs to understand the personalized prognosis for the patient in a quick fashion. Likewise, physicians will also be able to in the future print personalized therapeutics from drugs to medical devices. The future of medicine is personalized and Allevi is excited to be catalyzing this new era.

Ricky Solorzano CEO Allevi

About the Author: Ricky Solorzano as the CEO of Allevi guides the vision, strategy, and day to day operation. He has been obsessed with tissue engineering for 8 years, created the ď€ rst desktop 3D bioprinter out of his dorm room, and has been a Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under 30, and Business Insider 100: The Creators #65.

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Lezar3D: Utilizing 3D Printing Technology To Turn Clients’ Imagination Into Reality

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he unparalleled advancements in technology have made tremendous changes in the field of 3D printing, making it more and more common amidst all kind of businesses. The idea of 3D printing was coined long ago but most notable changes occurred during the digital revolution and today the technology has advanced to the point where it is easy to simply create a 3D model and send it to the printer instead of creating a model from scratch manually. This technology is typically useful when it comes to prototyping and proof-of concepts such as making models for forthcoming projects but it also provides great help in fabricating several small pieces in a short time period.

The products created using 3D printing technology have proved their significance in various domains such as healthcare, fashion, automation, construction etc.

Mesmerized by the broad usefulness of 3D printing technology, a well-versed entrepreneur—Robert Gagnon changed his field from tourism and started his own business called, Lezar3D dedicated to 3D printing.

Lezar3D’s Services Powered by 3D printing Established in 2014 at Montreal, Quebec, Lezar3D uses the 3D printers to produce models as per specifications given by clients and brings their ideas into reality. One of the important elements of the technology is the generative design which involves the optimization of every single model so that it can be created in the most efficient and practical way.

3D printers have been the crucial aspect of Lezar3D’s services. There are other techniques to make certain components but the majority of the products of the firm are created with 3D printers and many times other 36

techniques and 3D printers work in a unit. The firm uses other technologies such as thermoforming and moulding to make up for any shortcomings for 3D printing. The conjunction tends to offer various options such as using silicon to get a perfect final product. The entire business model of Lezar3D is based on this technology as this is an exceptionally versatile technique in creating something on its own as well as in eliminating imperfections of the other method.

Creating High-class Products According to Client Demands Every enterprise wants to see their projects come to life and Lezar3D with its amazing technologies comes to help. The client base of the firm includes many start-ups which are more interested in 3D models as it is a physical example of their idea and helps to connect well with potential investors. Lezar3D worked on projects including prototyping, architectural model, 3D cosplay, figuring, customized object etc. for its clients from Montreal and across Quebec. There are several individuals and groups who frequently change their design and Lezar3D helps them to create the physical model that can keep pace with their ideas. It also helps customers who need smaller versions of their existing projects to make it more portable and accessible.

Moreover, Lazar3D also assists its clients in creating marketing and cinema accessories along with product and prototype development. The firm also conducts workshops and training for the beginners which comprises of an introductory course in 3D printing, introductory workshop on 3D drawings, meshmixer workshop and other training related to 3D printing.

Along with that the company also offers custom courses on request.

Leader with Great Self-learning Skill The President of Lezar3D—Robert is always ready to push his limits and hence his journey from being in the tourism industry to establish a 3D printing technology company is an exceptional one. He was self-learning the technology for expanding tourism but it connected to him instantly and then there was no hesitation for him about whether to be in this industry or not. Robert keeps himself engaged with the field by staying up-to-date with the new inventions that can be used in conjunction with 3D printing. He dedicates plenty of hours every week for the business, managing deals with clients and even polishing the product printed.

Technology Changing Looks of Industries The 3D printing technology is familiar to most of the industries and therefore widely used across various verticals considering its benefits. Still, there are few industries that are not properly introduced with the technology but it is expected that with the passing of time more and more companies will start incorporating the technology into their regular workflow. The

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technology is marking its existence in every possible field including aeronautics as well as non-commercial domains such as dentists, orthopaedics, and schools. The technology with the advancements is becoming more of a necessity. But, one of the challenging parts in this business is conveying the customers what exactly is possible with 3D printing and what is not. Further, it is important to brief them the restraints and limitations of the technology to accord with their ideas.

Significance of the 3D Printing Technology “Personally, when we create something that previously never existed at all, and we can see it and hold it in real life with our very own hands, bringing to life something that would not have been practical or even possible without 3D printing. That feeling is genuinely aweinspiring for me. At the same time, I truly appreciate using this technology in conjunction with others, whether that means combining it with other materials such as silicon to perfect the final product, or applying it within other industries so that the ideas of other people can be realized in such a way that they would have never thought of without 3D printing.”— Robert Gagnon

We, at Lezar3D offer comprehensive 3D printing services to turn your concept projects into real-world objects.

Robert Gagnon President

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Leadership Challenges

The severity of the

world on the corporates.

What it demands from their leaders?

VUCA: the Origins

VUCA: Actual world scenario

VUCA—the term first produced and implemented by The U.S. Army War College to train their officers in the response of collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s.

VUCA describes the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of the world after the Cold War. Therefore, it was specifically a lesson learned from the conditions arose due to the Cold War between the US and USSR.

Therefore, VUCA designates unpredictable events in the world, whether in case of a country like Afghanistan or the case of an organization like Nokia. Afghanistan was once known as a fast developing country with a healthy economy. Similarly, Nokia was a leader in phone manufacturing and was selling the most number of phones across the world. In both cases, these two elements have suffered a drastic fall from prosperity to a great depreciation in their value.

VUCA, which was once a military training term has become trendy managerial acronym today. But what made corporates to follow this acronym? One of the reason is the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008—a once-in–a-century financial crash. Nearly a decade later we are still dealing with its fallout, and thinking of another, even larger, debt-caused crisis. Presently, VUCA is best acronym that encapsulates the impact of such thunderstorms which are just begun to unleash upon the globe.

These downfalls are the recent examples of ineffectiveness in tackling rapid changes in defense and in technological world respectively. Thus, neither countries nor organizations and their leadership strategies are spared in the today’s fluctuating world. Just turning on 5 min news can show you the live volatility and uncertainty in the world. One can see the end of relative stability in the business, politics, or science which ultimately forcing humans to be more dynamic, aggressive, and prepared for upcoming disasters. This

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proves that the present world is unlike anything people have ever seen.

market. Remember Kodak? —the pioneer in cameras—now struggling with keeping its name in the industry.

VUCA: Leaders and their strategies—Now and then VUCA: the Fighting Species The leaders in every business, public administration, education, science, culture, entertainment etc. are dealing with VUCA atmosphere on a daily basis. They form various strategies according to their industry or locality.

However, ill-prepared plans worsen the existing situation. Similarly, leaders who started in stable times find it difficult to match with the present highly turbulent digital age.

This is because, most of the old heroes are comfortable with a gradual changes and stick to industry boundaries.

Rather than launching working on breakthrough advancements, they prefer analyzing rivals’ strategies and scaling end-products slightly more efficient than the previous ones. This standard planning system is radically affected by the current global market and most of the leading companies have failed to match the speed of the

The question is who are suitable for thriving in the VUCA world? And the answer is—there are too many elements that are beyond the control but those who are flexible as well as open to change and dare for new experience can hope for a success. This can be referred as acrobatic learning, investing continual efforts day and night to achieve anything more than competitors, moving forward to new ideas and preparing to fight in the tomorrow’s world.

About twenty years ago, no one would have believed that space rockets would be recycled, sent and received safely like an email. This unthinkable milestone is achieved by a private spaceflight company, SpaceX. One rocket with minimal mileage, moderate lift capacity, can used for delivery of goods to Earth-orbit, and 100% success rate in flying back to earth!

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Leadership Challenges becoming those very few people with disruptive strategies.

VUCA: Benefits of Learning Agility The evolutionary example of SpaceX clearly states the need of the present uncertain world. Leaders don’t need to work towards making detailed plans but testing various hypotheses about emerging technologies and quickly recognizing ways to get things accomplished.

However, the higher leaders go—the more volatile uncertain, complex and ambiguous the job becomes and it challenges them to create their own way.

Dr. W. Burke, Thorndike Professor of Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been able to measure learning agility based on 4 years of initial research. He determined that people who are more learning agile demonstrate that agility in 9 different ways—Flexibility, Speed, Experimenting, Performance Risk Taking, Interpersonal Risk Taking, Collaborating, Information Gathering, Feedback Seeking, and Reflecting. According to the test consisting 38 questions, the research finds the learning agility in a leader. A leader with higher learning agility tends to have a successful future.

This is because agility comes from the motivation to think out of the box, try new things and learn with them.

Additionally, probing deeply into views and asking counter questions on them can clear the clouds in a strategy and helps to focus on consistent application of effective decision making.

VUCA: Disruptive strategies—Matching the change

Similarly, the leading payment service provider, MasterCard jumped to a different path than its rivals. It approached remote countries which were ignored by other payment giants. MasterCard found out the need for mobile payment options and excelled in that arena with solutions, bringing easy-to-use mobile payment features.

VUCA: the Breakthrough innovation approach In the case of startups, most of them are born out of an idea which identifies a need that other, more established organizations have ignored. But to consume work ahead with the VUCA change, startup leaders must produce game-changing, innovative products and services that can fundamentally change the way people live or work. This is helpful in making a distinct and unique business that can beat its competition with its end products.

Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity

Old and successful companies had a humble beginning. However, they matched with the changing wave. The wave that demands more—different and useful or simple, reliable, and productive—anything, which very few can predict, very few can dream of—but one can strive towards

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Initially, walked as an online bookseller to a flying retailer of nearly every product, Amazon has recently achieved a trillion dollar valuation with its disruptive strategies.

In conclusion, VUCA environment calls for different kinds of leaders who are highly focused on existing solutions or the ones with the ability to turn vision into reality, catching the fast pace tech realm. One can say VUCA typically require a fusion form of leaders and machines who can work continually, creating innovative offerings and streamline business process to keep running with the change. Similarly, to fortify the efforts, a brief understanding of VUCA can always give a reminder of the external environment to change the game with groundbreaking products, strategies, models, and self-built capabilities.