Taking a look back- outcome of week 3 and 4

Hello!

Let´s take a look back on tasks done during weeks 3 and 4...

In the 3. week we were supposed to do the first task - ''World wide additive manufacturing companies comparison''. Each person have found 5 companies and described them in the provided by Krishna KC template. Krishna and Trung made the principle and conclusion for this task. The main aim is to find the companies which are involved in metal 3D printing and to compare their offers and services to EOS. We believe that it will help us in naming pros and cons of EOS by comparing the final outcome and later we will take a further step to look more closely from the world to the Europe and again from the Europe to the Sweden being the most familiar country. We have also started the ''Finnish industry mapping'' assignment for the next week. Kalle and Trung did the template and Kasia and Kalle did the principle and conclusion. What was it about? Each person needed to find either additive manufacturing comapnies or potential Finnish customers for EOS. Furthermore, we made SWOT analysis. Aim of this analysis is not only to compare EOS to the competitors highlighting the differences but also to find new potential partners and of course to get to know potential customers for EOS. In one of the next steps we are going to select some of the companies and analyse them further to gain more knowledge about the cooperation advantages. For the next week we have planned to start finding potential cluster members and describe them. Kasia made the template and Valtter did the principle and conclusion. All cluster members are not necessarily AM service providers but some of them are promoting additive manufacturing solutions or providing trainings. We are going to look up few members and analyze them. We are going to suggest potential common activities and answer the question: Why EOS should cooperate with them?.