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Metal additive manufacturing has improved productivity by orders of magnitude in its 2+ decades of industrial use. It is going through an exponential development cycle with myriad new alloy development approaches coupled with exciting new process improvements.  Taken together a new phase of industrial application expansion of its use is happening.  The key to unlocking this potential is increasing the confidence and speed of deployment for new process and alloy combinations.  The foundation for doing that is creation of salient materials data sets that inform the use of AM printed metals for specific applications.

On Thursday March 14^th at the Additive Manufacturing User Group Meeting (AMUG) in Chicago, NSL Analytical Vice President of Science and Technology Development Dr. Ed Herderick presented on:

“The Exponential Future of Metal Printing: New Technologies and Needs for Materials Science”

His talk covered:

An overview and history of the exponential growth in productivity for metal printing as illustrated by metal laser powder bed fusion.  Including materials and process developments as well as industrialization of metal printed parts.

An outline of new technologies and approaches like new laser optics and AI and how they can keep our community on the exponential growth curve.  In this section needs for materials science testing and feedstock development will be included as well.

Check out this LinkedIn post for more information on the presentation