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Additive manufacturing: controls

Author: Anne-Françoise OBATON

Publication date: November 10, 2022

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Additive manufacturing is becoming more and more widespread as the technology is mastered, and this necessarily involves controls. Today, many manufacturers are interested in AF in one way or another. Some are evaluating the various processes by having parts produced by service providers. Others have equipped themselves with a machine and are evaluating a very specific process while trying to draw up a manufacturing protocol. Whatever they do, they carry out controls, because the word "evaluation" underlies the word "control".

The purpose of this article is to list the controls required for the process and parts, according to their specific nature and function. However, with the technology in full expansion, the need for other controls may arise. In addition, the absence of a standards framework penalizes the development and widespread use of AF. We therefore need...

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