NADCAP Forms Additive Manufacturing Task Group
The Nadcap Task Group will focus on all AM activity within the Nadcap program and collaborate with the organization’s 23 other Task Groups on associated processes.
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Helicopter casing made by L-DED (laser blown powder). Photo Credit: Nadcap
The Nadcap program — which provides critical process accreditations of suppliers in the aviation, defense and space industries — is developing a Task Group for Additive Manufacturing (AM).
The Nadcap Management Council and Performance Review Institute (PRI) Board of Directors recently approved the formation of the Task Group which will focus on all AM activity within the program and collaborate with the 23 other Task Groups on associated processes.
Nadcap Task Groups consist of technical experts from the aerospace industry which collaborate to create audit criteria that is used to accredit suppliers for various critical processes. Currently, the Nadcap program offers accreditation for laser powderbed fusion through the Welding Task Group, but in future this will be conducted by the new AM Task Group.
The first virtual meeting of the Task Group will be held in May with the objective of developing its remit and plan, followed by the first face-to-face meeting being to be held in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, June 29. Interested industry professionals are encouraged to participate.
“Creation of the new AM Task Group is an important step for the aerospace manufacturing industry. Together, we will work toward developing specific audit criteria for AM processes and ensure high quality AM products are manufactured in accordance with the principles of the Nadcap program,” says Jay Solomond, PRI executive vice president and chief operating officer. “The addition of additive manufacturing accreditation demonstrates how PRI and the Nadcap program continue to evolve to meet industry needs.”
PRI administers the Nadcap program and supports the task groups that are focused on 24 different technical commodities, each of which is chaired by industry professionals from aerospace OEMs that subscribe to the Nadcap program.
For more information on the AM Task Group or the Nadcap program, please email Nadcapinfo@p-r-i.org.
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