Over the last years, industry recourse to Additive Manufacturing processes has ramped up (a market being worth more than b$ 10 in 2019) with an increasing number of small to large scale implementations ranging from polymer to sands to metal powders and from prototyping to repair to mass-production.

Today TQM, that in the meantime has qualified and proved its know-how on a heterogenous type of feed stocks and technologies, can blend its technical knowledge with the most effective product/process improvement techniques and give advice for purposeful diagnoses and actions on the critical nodes which are typically featured in Additive Manufacturing centres. Those include:

• STL files design verification stage for feasible manufacturing (DFMEA)
• Powder supply requirements and verification system
• Internal powder management appropriateness against product purposes (a.t. IATF, EN, ASME, AWS, API, etc.) and necessary Supply-Chain Sync Optimization
• Production performance analysis for improvement (PFMEA/DOE)
• Process QA gap-analysis and QA improvement campaigns according to the applicable standards (ISO, ASTM, DIN SPEC)