Misconceptions of Metal Additive Manufacturing – Certification

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Misconceptions of Metal Additive Manufacturing – Certification

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I often hear them talk about how a particular printer or material is certified by a certain company or industry.
The 3D Printer The Material The Parameters The Post-Processing
The process of certification involves tweaking all four components so that the end result is a metal part which satisfies the target certification requirements.
What is really certified is the complete set of components that make up the workflow.
The workflow is certified and not individual components.
So, when someone tells me that a particular 3D printer is certified for aerospace or a particular material is certified for dental, I think they are either speaking from ignorance or are willfully misrepresenting the facts.
Our entry level metal 3D printer is the DMP Flex 100.
You can print parts using multiple materials.
The printer comes with 3DXpert, our software for metal additive manufacturing.
However, we have another 3D printer called the DMP Dental 100.
The reason we put all these restrictions in place is because our engineers and scientists have worked for years to develop a fully certified solution for printing certified dental parts using Cobalt Chrome.
Parts printed using this solution are certified as medical devices compliant with Europe (CE marking), USA (FDA registered) and Canada (Health Canada homologated).
By certified solution, I mean all the four components (printer, material, parameters and post-processing) are fixed.
For example, since our DMP printers are open systems, a customer may use material from another source.
Likewise, if they take our medical grade Cobalt Chrome powder and use it on another metal 3D printer, they cannot use the certification that comes with our end-to-end solution.
The requirements of metal additive manufacturing are very different from prototyping which is usually a plastic 3D printing play.
Parts produced using metal additive manufacturing can’t afford to fail.
3D printed aerospace parts can’t fai

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