Study: Early Experiments and Applications for Real-Time Control with Materialise Control Platform and Sigma Labs Melt Pool Monitoring – Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has become a prominent piece of the manufacturing toolkit for industries such as aerospace, medical devices, automotive, and energy to introduce more localized, customizable production. However, a lack of process robustness and repeatability is holding back the broader adoption of AM for serial production. The need for post-build inspection and quality assurance can result in increased costs compared to conventional manufacturing methods. Read.

Q&A: New paths for 3D metal printing– Metal 3D printing is changing the way we create parts. In low- to mid-volume production runs, the parts themselves can be made faster, cheaper, and with lower effort than traditional manufacturing processes. To gain an insight into how this area is developing and also to understand what it is like to transition to a new company in a senior role, Digital Journal spoke with Jacob Brunsberg, Senior Vice President of Sigma Labs. Read.

The Important Relationship Between Quality Management Systems and Additive Manufacturing – A key objective of a QMS is to improve the organization’s effectiveness and efficiency on a continuous basis, especially when it comes to meeting customer expectations, provisioning products and services efficiently, and creating space for growth, profitability and employee retention. Read.

The Important Role of Quality Management Systems in Additive Manufacturing – Additive manufacturers, service providers and OEMS face the constant need to meet or exceed customer expectations, while maintaining regulatory compliance and quality standards. This paper will help guide you to improve the yield, economics and predictability of AM manufactured parts. Read.

How AM Quality Standards Can Benefit Our Journey to Mars! – Our new paper: How AM Quality Standards Can Benefit Our Journey to Mars! The paper talks about NASA’s commitment to qualify additive manufacturing and discusses important information on topics.  Read.

Building a case for radical collaboration plus quality standards: The pathway to growing the AM industry – In this article, Ruport discusses how the company is targeting radical collaboration and the implementation of cohesive quality standards across the value chain to grow AM and overcome the challenges posed by true industrialization. Read.

Best Practices in Additive Manufacturing In-Process Quality Assurance (IPQA^®) – Learn how in-process quality assurance procedures will help you achieve non-destructive quality assurance in mid-production. Read.

Machine Learning: A Game Changer for Additive Manufacturing QA – machine learning can accurately predict where anomalies in 3D printed parts are likely to occur. Read.

Navigating the Additive Manufacturing QA Minefield -QA challenges can slow the success of additive manufacturing suppliers and manufacturers. If you are a company that depends on mission-critical parts, a metal 3D printer supplier, or anyone who has an interest in improving additive manufacturing quality, you will benefit from reading this informative paper full of actionable information and relevant examples. Read.

Visit the Blog: Catch up with industry and company news. Articles like Why a Focus on Quality is Needed to Grow the Additive Manufacturing Industry and ANSYS Technical Study Compares AM Monitoring Methods. Read.

Technical Papers & Case Studies: Choose from 14 papers and in-depth case studies on topics as varied as melt pool monitoring, anomaly detection, machine learning models, in-process quality metrics & computational tomography, and much more. Read.

Improving Additive Manufacturing Performance: From Design through Quality Assurance In this on-demand webinar,  learn how industry leaders DMG MORI and Sigma Labs are teaming up to improve the quality, throughput and cost-efficiency of additive manufacturing and 3D Metal printing. Watch.

Navigating the Additive Manufacturing QA Minefield – While the additive manufacturing/3D metal printing industry is growing fast, it is still constrained by quality control issues that inhibit throughput and profitability. Join experts Ron Fisher and Darren Beckett as they share the latest information about in-process quality assurance and what it can mean for your company. Watch.

How to Achieve In-Process Quality Assurance for Additive Manufacturing – Sigma Labs’ CTO Darren Beckett covers the key technical challenges and solutions in 3D metal printing applications. More than 15 subjects are covered in this fast-paced and informative presentation. Watch.

Improve Your AM Quality & Economics: Proven Best Practices from Industry Experts – Whatever your role in additive manufacturing (AM), you no doubt have an interest in improving the quality, efficiency and economics of 3D metal printing. That’s why we put together three top experts to share their proven strategies and tactics to help you get the most out of your AM initiatives. Watch.

Podcast: Jacob Brunsberg sits down with Kenneth Wong to discuss the evolution of Additive Manufacturing from prototyping to manufacturing, as well as QA and regulatory challenges Listen.

In-Situ Monitoring Benefits: In this video, Alex Benham shows how the addition of an In-Situ monitoring system can propel the overall quality and economics of your additive manufacturing production operation to greater heights. Watch.

Sigma Labs Overview: Brief videos that demonstrate the uses and benefits of Sigma Labs’ quality assurance solutions for the additive manufacturing/ 3D metal printing industry. Watch.

IPQA University: Visit our extensive collection of videos and learn the techniques and technical solutions to achieve a high level in process quality assurance (IPQA) in additive manufacturing/3D metal printing. Watch.

Podcast: SME editor Chris Mahar’s 24 minute interview of Ron Fisher, Sigma’s VP of Business Development: Maximizing Metal Additive Manufacturing with In-Process Quality Inspection. Listen.