Field Validation of In-Process Quality Assurance

VELO3D Assure™provides industry-leading in-process quality assurance and control for Laser Powder Bed Fusion

The move to serial production with Direct Metal Laser Melting has been held back because of the need for in-process quality measurement. How do you know metal additive manufactured parts are good?

Stratasys Direct put VELO3D's Assure quality assurance and control system through a 12-week field validation test and, in this whitepaper, share the results. Since completing the test, Stratasys Direct has now integrated Assure to monitor the integrity of builds on the VELO3D Sapphire system; validate bulk material density, observe ongoing process metrics, and verify the calibration of the system throughout ongoing production.

This whitepaper will:

• Review the features of Assure and how they were tested
• Discuss pre-build and process monitoring metrics
• Examine the correlation between an in-process quality metric and measured bulk material porosity
• Discuss the impact of Assure on the AM industry