Abstract Scope |
While AM continues to experience steady growth, as a percentage of the total manufacturing economy, AM is still a niche process. A few of the main impediments to greater adoption remain the high capital equipment cost, the maturity of AM systems for reliable and repeatable production, and the availability of materials data. Even when available, the pedigree is often too low to utilize and trust the data. The ASTM Industry Consortium initiative is to bringing companies together from across the entire AM value stream to collaborate on standardizing the requirements and best practices for AM material data generation and creating and managing shared high-pedigree “reference” datasets. Opportunities created from standardized high-pedigree materials data for developing the tools needed to support rapid process optimization, qualification of new AM applications, materials and technologies, and real-time quality assurance needed to scale AM production are discussed. |