The future of advanced manufacturing
Every hardware product is a small miracle.
You might have seen this tagline on our shirts from CES or on our company bio on LinkedIn and not thought much about it, but if you consider how most hardware products start out as mined raw material, you realize that it is indeed true.
Small Miracle is a video series where we speak to the leaders behind the most innovative hardware to hear their stories. Our first guest was Eduardo Torrealba, CEO of Lumafield, an industrial machinery company developing x-ray CT scanning for hardware companies. While x-ray CT scanning has existed for many years, Lumafield developed their technology at a considerably more affordable price point, making the technology accessible to wider hardware audience.
After education at Baylor University and the University of Illinois where he became interested in manufacturing, Eduardo joined Formlabs where he worked for four years developing their selective laser sintering product line. In 2019, together with other co-founders, he started Lumafield to make CT scanning more affordable. (Eduardo’s founding story is captured in terrific detail on his personal blog).
So, how do you take a $1M tool and make it $100K? In this Small Miracle episode, he shares:
How they de-risked their business model during COVID (when they couldn’t install the machines at customer locations)
How Lumafield and other hardware companies (Tesla, SpaceX) strip down their technology development to first principles and are able to move in an agile way
How tools that help hardware companies understand the dependencies across their entire stack of tools, documents, and processes will move hardware forward
Watch the full playlist: Small Miracle (Episode 1: Eduardo Torrealba)