AM I Navigator and Leading Minds Align Efforts Under a New Alliance

From a food packaging angle, the blocker to using printed change parts isn’t print speed, it’s certs and cleanability. Will this alliance produce shared standards/test data on FDA/3-A compliance, CIP chemical resistance, acceptable Ra for hygienic zones, and fatigue life so maintenance can confidently spec AM parts on legacy lines?

Hope this alliance tackles the hard bits: standardizing process qualification so API/ASME engineers can sign off, including powder chemistry control, parameter lock, and fatigue data for sour service. We’ve used AM 17-4 and 718 for non-critical tooling, but lot-to-lot powder drift and cloud-only traceability blocked adoption; is there a plan for cross-vendor parameter equivalency and on-prem traceability?