Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to visit Divergent Technologies in Los Angeles. It is a remarkable manufacturing company that is a gigantic leap over current systems.
Divergent will likely make virtually all current manufacturing obsolete. Kevin Czinger founded Divergent in 2014. Today, he is the company’s executive chairman while his son Lukas Czinger is the President and CEO. The company has 750 patents on advanced manufacturing systems.
The beating heart of the Divergent system is the integration of artificial intelligence, 3D printing, sophisticated material science, and a robotic system for manufacturing and assembling.
Divergent’s Adaptive Production System (DAPS) can design, modify, redesign, print, and assemble various products at lightning speed.
Its remarkable results have been validated by outside customers.
General Atomics, which makes the Predator drone and a host of other defense applications (including nuclear fission and fusion research), hired Divergent to redesign a cruise missile. According to General Atomics’s own analysis, Divergent produced a 98 percent reduction in parts, a 90 percent reduction in cycle time, a 40 percent reduction in variable costs, and a 50 percent reduction in development cost.