America Makes and ANSI publish V2.0 of Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing
02 July 2018
America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) published their Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing (Version 2.0). The roadmap is the work product of the America Makes & ANSI Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC), a group chartered to coordinate and accelerate the development of industry-wide additive manufacturing (AM) standards and specifications.
Some 320 individuals from 175 public- and private-sector organizations supported the document’s development. The US Department of Defense (DoD) provided major funding for the initiative.
The new roadmap describes the current AM standardization landscape and identifies 93 “gaps”—18 of them high priority—where no published standard or specification currently exists to address a particular industry need.
In 65 of those gaps, additional pre-standardization research and development (R&D) needs are identified. Updates are provided on progress against gaps identified in the earlier version of the roadmap, with many gaps having been substantially revised.
A number of new gaps also have been described, many involving polymers. The document considers the life cycle of an AM part, from initial design, to materials and process selection, production, post-processing, finished material properties, testing, qualification, and maintenance.
The roadmap is supplemented by the AMSC Standards Landscape, a listing of standards that are directly or peripherally related to the issues described in the roadmap.
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