As additive manufacturing pushes deeper into regulated, high-value production, the industry’s biggest bottleneck is shifting. It’s no longer just “Can we print the part?” It’s, “Can we prove stability, traceability, and capability at scale — without burying QA teams in manual reporting?”
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Phase3D has announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $2.9 million funding round that will accelerate the commercial expansion of its in-situ inspection technology for metal additive manufacturing. The investment will support increased manufacturing capacity, software development and wider deployment of the company’s Fringe Inspection platform as demand for production-scale quality assurance continues to grow.
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Metal additive manufacturing has a quality problem, but not the one people think. The industry doesn’t lack inspection methods. It lacks a credible, scalable inspection strategy. Too many teams are still trying to ‘buy certainty’ the same way they did in traditional manufacturing, inspect more, test more, document more. In metal AM, that instinct is understandable, and often self-defeating.
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Researchers have demonstrated that the Allied Vision EoSens 3CL high-speed camera can reliably detect process signatures linked to subsurface defects in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) — entirely in real time, with no modification to the laser path or build machine.
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Interspectral AB and Pankl Racing Systems AG announced an expanded strategic collaboration aimed at accelerating the industrialization of metal additive manufacturing through improved process monitoring, quality assurance, and data-driven production workflows.
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UltiMaker, a leader in industrial desktop 3D printing, has launched Factor 4 Plus, an industrial-grade platform offering up to twice the speed of the standard Factor 4. It delivers robust, high-performance printing. typically associated with more expensive industrial systems, for continuous factory production in the manufacturing and defense sectors.
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a new tool that can catch and correct potential mistakes in real time while 3D printing large plastic parts. The automated system could help manufacturers produce large, custom parts with fewer defects, potentially reducing waste, lowering costs, and strengthening domestic competitiveness in additive manufacturing, which includes 3D printing.
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Industrial AM quality specialist amsight is working with precision manufacturing company toolcraft to implement a more automated, transparent, and scalable approach to additive manufacturing quality management, with a particular focus on semiconductor-related production.
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Stratasys, a leader in additive manufacturing solutions, annouhas nced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarkForged, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nano Dimension, in an all-cash transaction valued at $42.5 million.
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Swedish software innovator Interspectral and a consortium of industrial and technology partners have secured funding from Swedish innovation agency Vinnova for TRUSTAM (Trusted Federated Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing), a groundbreaking initiative focused on advancing secure AI-driven quality assurance for additive manufacturing.
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