The Additive Advantage Podcast
In today’s volatile markets, organizations face a brutal balancing act: the relentless pressure to innovate faster while maintaining operational excellence. Additive manufacturing (AM) was supposed to be the game-changer. But for many companies, it’s become a slow burn of money, time, and credibility.
We’ve seen it up close: $4 million spent, 18 months passed, a dozen engineers assigned—and still no outcomes. Pilots stall. Production doesn’t scale. ROI never makes it to the P&L. If you’re a GM or SVP who championed AM and now find yourself watching money burn while results slip away—you’re not alone.
The truth? Most companies treat additive as a technical side project, handed to engineering and isolated from the business, with the expectation it will somehow deliver like magic. But innovation without execution is just expense.
That’s where the Additive Advantage Model comes in—and this podcast brings it to life.
Hosted by Shon Anderson and Dani Mason, with a combined 20 years of additive manufacturing experience, The Additive Advantage Podcast brings you real conversations with industry leaders who have been in the trenches of transformation. These aren’t fluffy tech chats—they’re straight-talk interviews about what it really takes to make additive deliver.
The Additive Advantage Podcast
Latest Episodes
EP 19: The Workforce Gap Isn’t a Talent Problem. It’s a Partnership Problem.
The workforce gap is one of the biggest challenges facing advanced manufacturing. But what if we’ve been treating it as someone else’s problem?In the first episode of our new workforce series, our host Shon Anderson sits down with Matt K...
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EP 18: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
What separates groundbreaking innovation from ideas that never leave the lab?Dr. Scott Wood, Founder and CTO of CellField Technologies and Director of Biotechnology Innovation and Training at the University of New England, joins us to di...
EP 17: Why Predictability Is the Missing Piece of Additive Manufacturing
A failed metal build doesn't just waste material—it can waste days of machine time, thousands of dollars, and delay an entire production schedule. So why are so many manufacturers still relying on trial and error?Christian Rossmann, Ph.D...
EP 16: The Additive Program That Printed Everything Right and Still Failed
What happens when an additive manufacturing program does everything "right"—the printers are running, parts meet spec, engineers are happy—and it still gets shut down?In this episode, we explore one of the most common reasons additive in...
EP 15: Building the Next American Century
Advanced manufacturing is about more than technology—it's about the policies, workforce, and investments that determine whether innovation succeeds.In this episode, Congressman Dusty Johnson joins us to discuss what it will take for Amer...
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