China3D printingNET, August 1st, Santa Fe-based additive manufacturing software developer Sigma Labs announced a partnership with the international aerospace company Airbus to deploy Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D quality assurance software.
Airbus will use the new PrintRite3D version 5.0 rapid test and evaluation program to test and evaluate metal additive manufacturing for the continuous production of printed parts in the aerospace industry.Next will verify the powder bed fusion3D printingmachine.
John Rice, Chairman and CEO of Sigma Labs, commented: “We are honored to have our in-process quality assurance tools and to work with Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer.
Our industry is accelerating its exquisite quality requirements, including highly accurate and economical third-party quality assurance. We at SIGMA have promised to meet our own needs. “
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PrintRite3D package
Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D is a combination of a hardware module and two software modules for additive manufacturing quality assurance and process monitoring. When they are used together, they collect and process data that users can analyze and check in real time, and implement corrections when necessary.
The company claims that with the growth and expansion of additive manufacturing in the aerospace industry, the process must be qualified to increase and ensure the quality of parts. In cooperation with Airbus, the aim is to provide a quality assurance solution through PrintRite3D, which can provide process knowledge and understand the dynamics of the molten pool, thereby improving the process consistency of additive manufacturing.
As early as 2019, an undisclosed global additive manufacturing materials and service provider also partnered with Sigma Labs to participate in its testing and evaluation program. Then there was news that Sigma Labs obtained third-party verification of its PrintRite3D platform in a study conducted by the US defense agency DARPA.
After launching the latest version of PrintRite3D at RAPID + TCT in May 2019, the company and Belgium3D printingSoftware company Materialize signed a memorandum of understanding, and the company also cooperated with Airbus. Sigma Labs and Materialise will combine their expertise to develop a metal3D printingThe integrated in-situ quality assurance (QA) system is designed to commercialize this technology.
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Quick test and evaluation plan
According to Sigma Labs’ test and evaluation program, Airbus will obtain the PrintRite3D online quality assurance (IPQA) system. IPQA’s services include hardware, software, training, engineering and metallurgical consulting and support. The purpose of the program is to demonstrate the value of Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D software and its ability to monitor and verify materials, machine processes, production consistency, and repeatability of additive manufacturing operations.
In addition, the test and evaluation plan will remind Airbus engineers to pay attention to precursors that are not continuous in the additive manufacturing process. It will allow engineers to extract actionable data to restore the process. Sigma Labs also aims to demonstrate the powerful features of PrintRite3D INSPECT 5.0, which is a software module that can perform online detection of metallurgical properties. Ultimately, the program is expected to provide certification of metal additive manufacturing systems for Airbus’ aerospace series production. “PrintRite3D®5.0 provides a user-friendly experience for the market, allowing you to quickly obtain the qualification for mass production of AM metal machines, and then be able to correct any detectable errors in the continuous production process.” Rice added.
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