Qualification
7 Takeaways on 3D Printing As a Pathway to Polymer’s Future
The Cleveland section of SPE hosted “Additive Manufacturing: Printing the Path for the Future” on October 17, 2024. Speakers signaled where AM is and where it is headed with session topics ranging from pellet-based 3D printing to qualification and commercialization of additively manufactured products.
Stephanie Hendrixson
Executive Editor, Additive Manufacturing
Velo3D Sapphire Printers Become First Metal 3D Printers to Achieve DOD Green-Level STIG Compliance
The certification allows Sapphire printers to be connected to the DOD’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and gives customers confidence that their metal 3D printers are hardened against potential cyberattacks and other vulnerabilities.
Read MoreMaking Sense of Qualification, Certification and Standards in Additive Manufacturing: AM Radio #48
AM needs standards and processes for qualification and certification just like any other process. In this conversation with Dr. Tim Simpson, AM editors dive into the distinctions between these terms, and explore how they are influencing additive adoption and advancement.
Read MoreStratasys Partners With NOCTI for First-Ever FDM Process Certification
The recognition from NOCTI marks a significant step toward strengthening education and building competent workforces in the field of additive manufacturing.
Read MoreAdditive Manufacturing for Defense: Targeting Qualification
Targeting qualification in additive manufacturing for the defense industry means ensuring repeatability as well as reliability as there is much at stake, including human lives. Certain requirements therefore must be met by weapons systems used by the defense industry.
Read MoreJeol’s Electron Beam 3D Printer Meets Aerospace Qualification Standard
The company says that meeting the AMS7032 operational qualification standard ensures manufacturers that Jeol’s JAM-5200EBM is capable of producing aerospace-grade material with stable performance and meets all material specification requirements.
Read MoreInspection Method to Increase Confidence in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Researchers developed a machine learning framework for identifying flaws in 3D printed products using sensor data gathered simultaneously with production, saving time and money while maintaining comparable accuracy to traditional post-inspection. The approach, developed in partnership with aerospace and defense company RTX, utilizes a machine learning algorithm trained on CT scans to identify flaws in printed products.
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AM Materials Consortium Selects Partners for LPBF Fabrication and Testing
The consortium is developing open LPBF parameter sets to streamline machine, material and process qualification, with the goal of expediting customers’ process development leading to serial production.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
Additive Manufacturing in Transportation: How It Moves Us
Transportation is experiencing unprecedented pressure to move people and goods farther, faster, cheaper and more sustainably. The Barnes Global Advisors and Wabtec discuss the role that additive manufacturing is playing for rail transportation, and how 3D printed parts such as manifolds are qualified for this industry.
Read MoreAIM3D Study Shows 3D Printing Ultem 9085 Pellets Offers Lower Cost, Higher Tensile Strength
The material qualification testing indicates many benefits of creating components with AIM3D’s ExAM 510 printer using the composite extrusion modeling process, which uses standard pellets rather than the more expensive filaments required by other platforms.
Read MoreDyndrite, MIMO Technik, Astro Collaborate on Machine, Material Qualification for 3D Metal Printing
The companies chose to collaborate on the development of the Mastro process in order to streamline and automate a closed-loop source for additive production and qualification.
Read MoreAdditive Manufacturing in Space: Failing Upward
Not all 3D printed parts destined for space need to adhere to the standards of human space flight. Yet all parts made for space programs require some type of qualification and certification. NASA and The Barnes Global Advisors explore Q&C for these parts.
Read MoreVelo3D Founder on the 3 Biggest Challenges of 3D Printing Metal Parts
Velo3D CEO and founder Benny Buller offers this perspective on cost, qualification and ease of development as they apply to the progress of AM adoption in the future.
Read MoreDyndrite Joins ASTM to Provide AM Reference Data
Collaborative effort aims to create shareable reference datasets that drive consistency across the industry, accelerating qualification and adoption of metal additive manufacturing.
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Additive Manufacturing at NASA (Part 2): AM Radio #52
In this follow-up podcast episode on additive manufacturing at NASA, Dr. Tim Simpson joins us to discuss how the organization thinks about AM overall, and its role in advancing additive alongside and in service of commercial industry.
Stephanie Hendrixson
Executive Editor, Additive Manufacturing
A Framework for Qualifying Additively Manufactured Parts
A framework developed by The Barnes Global Advisors illustrates considerations and steps for qualifying additively manufactured parts, using an example familiar to those in AM: the 3D printed bottle opener.
Read MoreDEDSmart Tool Harnesses Data in Real-Time for Build Quality Verification
FormAlloy Technologies’ DEDSmart technology for autonomous DED builds and build data logging utilizes enhanced in-situ monitoring and control, and the power of data, to complete builds autonomously while data logs are automatically exported enabling Digital Build Certification.
Read MoreAmerica Makes Announces Project Call for Process Qualification/Requalification Totaling $3.2M
Proposal submissions for the Demonstration of Novel Methods for Effective AM Process Qualification/Requalification – Delta Qualification project call are due by May 22.
Read MoreAidro Becomes Leonardo Helicopters' Supplier for Aluminum Flight Parts
Aidro is one of two suppliers to receive the Declaration for Qualification of Process for Additive Layer Manufacturing with Leonardo.
Read MoreQualification Today, Better Aircraft Tomorrow — Eaton’s Additive Manufacturing Strategy
The case for additive has been made, Eaton says. Now, the company is taking on qualification costs so it can convert aircraft parts made through casting to AM. The investment today will speed qualification of the 3D printed parts of the future, allowing design engineers to fully explore additive’s freedoms.
Read MoreMorf3D, 6K Additive Qualifying Metal Powders for Aerospace Customers
6K Additive’s sustainably produced powders will be qualified for full industrialization and high-volume production.
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3D Systems Receives FDA Clearance for World’s First 3D Printed PEEK Cranial Implants
The FDA clearance now enables widespread adoption of 3D Systems’ self-contained, cleanroom environment-based printing system, the EXT 220 MED, with medical-grade PEEK materials to deliver patient-specific cranial reconstruction solutions.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
GE Additive, WSU-NAIR Partner to Accelerate Military’s Metal Additive Tech Implementation
The partnership will accelerate metal additive adoption within the military aerospace and defense industrial base by advocating for common practices, rapid qualification and certification, and the development of a shared database for additive manufacturing data and knowledge.
Read MoreVolkmann Dust Collection System Earns ATEX Certification for Explosive Environments
Volkmann’s VSHC dust collection system certified safe for dust cleanup in hazardous zones.
Read MoreZeiss, ORNL Developing X-Ray CT-Based Characterization for AM Parts
The new methodology is designed to rapidly qualify new alloys, powder materials and processes for printed parts and enable rapid certification and qualification of AM components.
Read MoreZeiss, ORNL Collaborate on Fast, Automated Print Parameter Qualification Solution
RAPID 2021: ParAM is designed to evaluate print parameters to help reduce build failure rates and make AM processes reliable, while reducing the cost per part.
Read MoreFabrisonic Earns IS0 9001:2015 Certification
The scope of the registration for ISO 9001 covers UAM products, equipment and R & D service.
Read MoreAM Material Certification Database Cuts Redundant Testing
UL’s Blue Card program provides a reliable, transferrable set of test results for plastic materials used in additive manufacturing — so long as the user’s printing parameters match the tested parameters.
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