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Other than workforce development, materials qualification is perhaps the greatest existing barrier to the scale-up of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Moreover, improving access to data on metals qualified for the most widely used AM processes could help address both challenges: validating the underlying technical processes removes a meaningful portion of the risk associated with an enterprise taking on new staff dedicated to building its AM capabilities.
While there aren’t many firms out there with the credentials to lead a qualification campaign for AM metals, the ones that do have such credentials are rightly becoming more integral to the AM industry, at least in the US. Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA), for instance, has a track record this decade of taking on increasingly ambitious pr