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.
Episodes
12 episodes
EP 11: From Islands to Outcomes: Making Additive Work at Scale
In this episode of The Additive Advantage Podcast, Shon Anderson sits down with Andre Wegner, CEO of Authentise, for a wide-ranging conversation on workflow orchestration, contextual data, AI, and the future of scalable additive manufacturing.<...
EP 10: Stop Buying 3D Printers. Start Building Systems.
In Episode 10 of The Additive Advantage Podcast, Shon Anderson and Dani Mason take on one of the biggest barriers in additive manufacturing: why so many companies struggle to move from prototyping into real production.This solo ...
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EP 09: $2 Billion Later… Why Additive Still Isn’t Delivering
In this episode of The Additive Advantage Podcast, we sit down with Tuan TranPham to unpack a hard truth about the additive manufacturing industry: despite billions of dollars in investment, the technology still hasn’t delivered at the...
EP 08: The Handshake Between Additive & Injection Molding
What if the biggest problem in plastics manufacturing isn’t technology—but the gap between them?In Episode 8 of The Additive Advantage Podcast, we sit down with the team at Polymer Dynamics to unpack one of the most persistent challenge...
EP 07: When Additive Gets Boring, It Wins
In Episode 7 of The Additive Advantage, we’re joined by Stefan Joens, President of Elnik Systems and DSH Technologies, companies at the center of metal injection molding and sinter-based additive manufacturing....
EP 06: From Petri Dish to Production: Biotech Manufacturing as National Resilience
In this episode of The Additive Advantage, we sit down with Tom Jantsch, COO of Ronawk, to explore why biotechnology is increasingly a national resilience and security issue.Biotechnology extends far beyond healthcare — i...
EP 05: Additive Manufacturing Is Now a Security Issue
For years, additive manufacturing was evaluated on performance, cost, and speed.Now it’s being evaluated on something else: security.In this episode of The Additive Advantage, Shon Anderson and Dani Mason unpack th...
EP 04: Additive Isn’t Magic — What Actually Works
Blake Teipel brings a manufacturing-first lens (John Deere/Caterpillar) and hard-earned operator experience from scaling an AM company through the 2020–2024 volatility cycle. Together, the group unpacks why additive still holds real promise—but...
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EP 03: Execution Beats Ideas: Leading Technology Initiatives That Actually Work
Most technology initiatives don’t fail because the technology doesn’t work. They fail because execution is underestimated.In this episode of The Additive Advantage, we sit down with Todd Gagne—former Concur executive, ser...
EP 02: If Your Additive Program Looks Exciting, It’s Probably Broken
On The Additive Advantage, we talk about why additive manufacturing succeeds or fails — and why the answer is never the printer itself.In this episode, we’re joined by Paul Chabala, Senior Manager of Manag...
EP 01: Why Most AM Initiatives Fail (And How Yours Won’t)
Why do so many additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives stall, miss ROI targets, or quietly disappear—despite great technology and smart engineers?In this episode of The Additive Advantage Podcast, hosts Dani Mason and Sh...
Introducing the Additive Advantage Podcast
Join hosts Dani Mason and Shon Anderson as they pull back the curtain on what it takes to drive technology-fueled business growth. With 40 years of combined experience, they reveal how to transform additive manufacturing from endless pilots int...
