GE Additive Cincinnati jet engine parts facility

GE makes ~400 different jet-engine parts there; economic because jet engines value pound-saved at $200–220K.

He goes through and talks about conformally cooled tooling, where you can put cooling passages and things. General Electric has a facility that I've been invited to in Cincinnati — a huge facility, and supposedly they are now making four hundred different parts for jet engines. Why jet engines? Because we're talking two hundred to two hundred twenty thousand dollars a pound as the value of a pound saved. If I can put certain cooling passages or fuel passages in a nozzle that goes into a jet engine, and can save millions of dollars worth of fuel costs, I can probably afford to make something with additive manufacturing. If that was General Motors and it's going to go in a car, no way, because the value of a pound saved in a car is two dollars over the life of the vehicle. Even if it's in a better place, $200 a pound, you're going to see that there's some problems.