Quality assurance

We develop solutions for reliable component quality and stable process conditions in additive manufacturing in line with the latest standards. For this goal, we are working on solutions for automatic process monitoring and innovative approaches for the quality assessment of your components.

Your process can do more - with the power of data

We support you in the consistent and automated recording of your quality-relevant process variables and develop tools for quickly analysing your data. This allows you to tackle the following challenges, among others:

 

  • Increasing process stability
  • Identifying potential for optimisation and savings
  • Identifying the causes of process fluctuations
  • Reduction of rejects
  • Automatic process documentation

Determining component quality using next-gen quality assurance technologies

Downstream quality assurance is one of the biggest cost drivers in additive manufacturing and is often not meaningful enough. Together with our partners, we develop innovative QA technologies that enable you to assess your component quality quickly and reliably at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods. Specifically, we deal with the following areas:

  • Quality assurance for series production
  • Selective quality inspections based on in-situ data
  • Development of new QA technologies for additive manufacturing (indentation tests, natural frequency analyses, innovative CT approaches, etc.)
  • Effects-of-defects analyses to evaluate the impact of internal defects on dynamically loaded components

 

Your Additive Manufacturing process – streamlined with the latest standards and norms

 

The portfolio is rounded off by the development of guidelines for supplier specifications and the qualification of additive manufacturing equipment. These are based on the latest state of the relevant standards landscape (DIN, ISO, ASTM, VDI,...) and the expert knowledge at Fraunhofer IAPT.

Please contact us for a discussion in which we can jointly discuss solutions for your concerns.

 

Measuring services

Let us measure your components quickly and easily. We offer you a wide range of measurement technologies that are measured and scientifically categorised using the expertise of the Fraunhofer IAPT.
 

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