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

This article was originally posted on Manufacturing Industry News and eMagazine - Recent News .
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A new Additive Manufacturing Alliance is uniting leading industry initiatives— including AM I Navigator and Leading Minds—under one umbrella to coordinate efforts, share best practices, and accelerate the industrial adoption of additive manufacturing through combined outreach, education, and cross-industry collaboration.

What barrier to wider AM adoption do you think this alliance should tackle first: standards and qualification, workforce training, application discovery, or supply-chain integration?
Additive Manufacturing Alliance brings together leading industry initiatives to advance the industrial adoption of additive manufacturing

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pat
Jun 28 at 4:00 PM
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?
mdelgado_ctrls
Jul 4 at 6:00 AM
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?

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