We had an interesting visit with Boeing Technical Principal turned serial entrepreneur Jerry LaChapelle. In our interview (video below) Jerry discusses his firm’s new web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS) application which lowers the cost of manufactured parts. The firm is in the midst of raising a private equity financing round for it’s CAD-CAM software product, which will lower the cost of manufactured parts.
In this interview, Jerry LaChapelle, Founder & CEO, shows how the MES “M-PACT” application complements state of the art Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), and state of the art simulation processes to deliver superior, lower-cost machined parts.
The benefit is that manufacturers and component suppliers across many different manufacturing business sectors will be better able to predict, and produce lower cost custom machine part components.
Kicking off the interview, Jerry shared with us that new airliners, like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, are built using MILLIONS of parts, roughly 40% of which are custom parts as he describes in this interview.
MES missed the “Techstars for a day” event due to their last-minute filing, but they did make Andy Sack’s June 1st cutoff so they’ll be considered (along with 400+ other startups) for the 10 coveted slots in Seattle’s new TechStars program.
We’ll also post a text transcript+text version of our interview with this fascinating Seattle 2.0 startup.
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