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Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring Flexible Quality Assurance for 3D Printer
3D printing software for monitoring and quality assurance. Binding standards are a must-have in practically every industry. Especially in series production, reliable production quality is indispensable. That’s why quality control and quality assurance systems are extremely important for metal 3D printing. The solution: EOSTATE.
Optimized user-friendliness – rapid work results
The 3D printing software EOSTATE is easy to learn: the user interface guides users intuitively through each step of the data analysis. This makes work easier, produces quick results and makes it easy even for non-specialists to evaluate the monitoring data.
Four modules, one goal: reliable AM series production without compromise
Our monitoring and quality assurance package EOSTATE consists of four modules that can be used either individually or in combination with one another. In this way, EOSTATE meets the needs of a wide variety of industries, such as the aerospace, orthopedic technology, contract manufacturing, turbine and engine construction and tool-making sectors.
What EOSTATE Monitoring Does The Software at a Glance
EOSTATE Quality Reports
EOSTATE PowderBed Imaging
EOSTATE MeltPool
EOSTATE
Exposure OT
How EOSTATE Works Real-Time Monitoring for Industrial 3D Printing
Your Advantages Lower Costs Despite Extensive Quality Assurance
The cost of quality assurance is often significantly higher than the part costs themselves. EOSTATE can reduce or eliminate downstream test methods such as computed tomography measurements.
In-Process Monitoring from ZEISS High-end powder bed monitoring for the EOS M 290
In the additive manufacturing process, a homogeneous powder bed is a prerequisite for a reliable manufacturing process. Integrate the ZEISS AM in-process into your EOS DLMS system now!
As a customer, this gives you the possibility, during and after the production process, to monitor the quality of the powder bed and to intervene in the process manually or automatically according to predefined rules.
The technology is available for the EOS M 290 system and can be integrated into already-installed and new machines.
Advantages:
- Seamless documentation of powder bed quality for the traceability of defects or to fulfill the obligation to provide evidence
- Live notification in case of powder bed defects create full transparency
- Reduction of scrap rate through recoating in case of missing material
- Reduction of downstream QA costs
Success Story voestalpine Shorter Time to Market for AM Tooling Inserts
Thanks to their high level of customer intimacy and technological familiarity, voestalpine develops tailor-made solutions for their plastic injection molding (PIM) customers. These are manufactured with the EOS M 290 system and optimized with EOS Monitoring solutions enabling a faster development of the process parameters, reduction of printing costs due to fewer job iterations and a reduction of the quality assurance costs. Learn more about voestalpine’s approach and results in the success story.
EOSTATE Exposure OT and MeltPool Monitoring gave us a deeper understanding of the interactions taking place between the various factors that influence the LPBF process. Not only were we able to minimize the development cycles of novel materials during the qualification phase but we were also able to benefit from faster build rates and lower lead times for production.
Success Story MTU Significant Savings in Quality Assurance
With the goal of finding a specific testing procedure for 100 % monitoring and documentation of the AM process, the engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines began developing optical tomography (OT) in 2013. Based on their work, EOSTATE Exposure OT was developed in collaboration with EOS.
MTU Aero Engines has now been using EOSTATE Exposure OT for years for process development and quality assurance in the additive series production of borescope bosses for Airbus A320neo engines. This has allowed them to completely eliminate any downstream quality assurance procedures.
EOSTATE Exposure OT is able to determine when a part is not flawless. Because of this, we were able to completely dispense with subsequent X-ray and CT inspections in the series production of borescope bosses. Economically, this is a huge advantage.
The four modules in detail EOSTATE Monitoring for your individual requirements
Our DMLS systems are all equipped with EOSTATE Base out of the box. The software monitors all system-internal sensors and indicates whenever a quantity such as the oxygen concentration or laser power is not within the target range. The following factors are also monitored: laser and scanner status with automatic scanner self-calibration, cooling system, electrics including the power failure protection, position of the build platform, dosing system and collection containers, status of the air circulation system, process chamber and ambient atmosphere, as well as the temperature of the build platform. If any of these quantities deviate from a predefined corridor, the build process is stopped and the user is notified.
Another prerequisite for a stable build process in 3D printing is a uniform and complete coating of the build platform at every layer. The PowderBed module is the solution for monitoring the current powder bed. After each layering and exposure phase, an integrated camera takes a picture of the build area and identifies any irregularities, such as an incomplete powder layer, grooves or cavities. This reveals any uneven or incomplete layering steps. If there are any problems, the build process can quickly be stopped.
The EOSTATE plug-in optimizes the application, allowing the recordings to be exported as a video clip to the work computer.
EOSTATE MeltPool provides high-resolution information about the melt pool dynamics, making it the ideal complement to Exposure OT. Using on-axis sensors integrated into the beam path, MeltPool measures the emissions of the melt pool, giving deeper insight into the 3D printing process. Various individually adjustable analysis parameters make it possible to evaluate the part quality. The features of MeltPool make it ideal for users who want to improve their research and development processes or optimize their production methods.
The high complexity of additively manufactured parts places special demands on quality assurance. Downstream testing methods such as X-ray or computed tomography (CT) quickly reach their limits. In many cases, testing becomes more expensive than the actual manufacturing – several times over.
Exposure OT is a unique and cost-efficient alternative: As the world’s first commercial testing solution based on optical tomography, Exposure OT enables non-destructive testing after the build process. Regardless of the part size, Exposure OT records and analyzes the quality-relevant 3D printing process data with a sCMOS industrial camera. The camera captures the entire build space and measures the quality-relevant heat emissions in real time. Exposure OT then generates a list of indicators for the user to evaluate. The analysis algorithm can be adapted to individual requirements, meaning that each user only receives the results that are relevant to them.
Exposure OT enables you to eliminate the high costs of downstream quality assurance procedures. Exposure OT is also a useful tool for application development: the data that it collects can decisively improve series production and process development. This significantly reduces the development times of new products.
Whitepaper: Correlation of In-Process
Monitoring Data and Mechanical
Properties of Lattice Structures
The monitoring system EOSTATE ExposureOT can be used to assess the relative density and compression strength of lattice structures. Any decrease in energy density that results in a lower EOSTATE ExposureOT value leads to a decrease in strut thickness and therefore a lower relative density.
This whitepaper gives information about:
- Producing or planning on producing porous structures by means of additive manufacturing
- Assessing mechanical properties of lattice structures during the build
- State-of-the-art alternatives to cost-intensive quality assurance methods
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Whitepaper: Correlation of In-Process
Monitoring Data and Defects
in X-Ray CT for AM Swirler
The EOSTATE Exposure OT monitoring system can be used to identify defects. This study shows that process instability can be reflected as extreme hot spots, which can be detected by the monitoring system.
This whitepaper gives information about:
- The assessment of the sensitivity of EOSTATE Exposure OT and EOSTATE MeltPool monitoring system in registering variations in melt pool energy density when processing EOS NickelAlloy IN625 on EOS M 290
- The correlation of defects based on in-process monitoring data and CT scanning
- The application of in-process monitoring for quality assurance in a serial production scenario
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