ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) today announced three key milestones advancing the reliability and adoption of additive manufacturing (AM):
- Leadership of the Industry Transition Team (ITT) under the America Makes Quality Test and Inspection Methods Expediency (QTIME) program;
- The launch of WATCHLIST—a coordinated initiative to accelerate in-process monitoring and control, jointly funded by America Makes and NASA;
- ASTM’s elevation to Platinum membership in America Makes, the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing technology and education.
Under QTIME, funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology (OSD ManTech), ASTM International will lead the ITT to connect technology outcomes to real-world use across aerospace, defense, and other safety-related sectors.
The ITT includes The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, SAE International, Baker Hughes, and Wohlers Associates. QTIME focuses on developing rapid, cost-effective non-destructive inspection (NDI) methods for large and complex AM parts—both in-situ and ex-situ—across laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and directed energy deposition (DED) technologies.