AddUp Partners With Interspectral for Melt Pool Monitoring System

AM Explorer by Interspectral displaying melt pool data from AddUp’s FormUp 350 system. Photo Credit: AddUp

AddUp, a global metal additive manufacturing (AM) OEM offering multitechnology production systems, is partnering with Sweden’s Interspectral to reduce quality inspection costs and improve efficiency by developing an advanced AM Monitoring data visualization solution which will be available globally on all new AddUp systems equipped with melt pool monitoring.

AddUp says its FormUp 350 includes one of the most advanced monitoring suites available on the market, based on three different solutions working in synergy. After the launch of AddUp Dashboards last year and the introduction of a closed-loop powder bed monitoring solution, the company is now focused on melt pool control.

Based on multisensor hardware mounted into the optical chain, this melt pool control system tracks in real-time power and emissivity drifts, along with physical position of the lasers’ spot by achieving micron-level accuracy for every single layer and tailoring data sets to different user profiles. This solution provides valuable insights for many different job functions, such as quality experts working towards serial production, the company says.

“AddUp’s melt pool monitoring solution has already generated vast interest on the market, especially in the aerospace segment. But, to go even further, we wanted to provide the best-in-class multichannel digital twin which would be able to track and focus potential defective zones during production while working on pure RAW data,” says Mathieu Roche, AddUp software product manager. “Interspectral and its AM Explorer software have been a no-brainer when we started looking for the best solution available.”

AM Explorer, developed by Interspectral, is an OEM-agnostic 3D visualization software that makes it possible for end users to create multichannel digital twins from design, simulation, monitoring and post-build part analysis data collected during the AM process.

With AM Explorer, AddUp customers will now be able to explore and analyze the massive melt pool data sets in full 3D with data collected both during and after production.

“This is a major breakthrough in the additive manufacturing industry and the first in-depth OEM integration of our multichannel visualization solution AM Explorer,” says Isabelle Hachette, Interspectral CEO. “Through this in-depth integration, Interspectral and AddUp have empowered 3D printers with AM Explorer to achieve optimized efficiency for additive manufacturing production.”

The development and license agreement entered by both parties will lead to new releases of AM Explorer that will be bundled with AddUp’s melt pool monitoring solution.