Additive Talks: How to leverage data to drive AM efficiency, safety and transparency? – Space applications.

In theory, Additive Manufacturing provides an ideal opportunity to apply Digital Thread (DT) technology, since it relies on new digitally - driven features. In practice, success requires that data are made available to integrated discovery, data mining, and physics-based simulation tools, enabling timely evaluation of manufactured parts and ensuring a fluid response to the in-process variability that can affect part quality.
The only thing is, there is a complex relationship between the part geometry, material, and individual processes used to create the final 3D printed part and that’s something the next panel discussion ambitions to address.