IMDEA Materials & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Work on Making 3D Printers Print in Unison

Spain’s IMDEA Materials Institute has worked with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to detect and identify differences in different 3D printers. This could be important in eliminating run-to-run differences in prints and printers. It could make it easier to print the same part with the same performance in Wellington and Medellin.That could make 3D printing for MRO more successful. Also, serialized 3D printing production would be easier as well. And it may be possible to identify printers from prints or to uniquely identify parts.

The resulting paper was published in Advanced Engineering Informatics, “Noise-aware optimization in nominally identical manufacturing and measuring systems for high-throughput parallel workflows.” Christina Schenk , Miguel Hernández-del-Valle, Luis Calero-Lum