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2. Qualify Your Additive Manufacturing with CT Scanning.
Steve Traynor – Engineering Manager at QC Group, LLC

3. With the emergence of additive manufacturing, one of the many benefits that has a lot of engineers excited, is that it allows for design freedom where historically traditional manufacturing could not go. No doubt there is a lot of buzz going on with additive manufacturing right now due to a dramatic shift in the ability to decrease production time as the demand for customized products in less time continues to increase.

4. How many of you are currently using additive manufacturing for either prototype or production parts?

5. If additive manufacturing is necessary, how do you qualify these parts?

6. So there’s an elephant in the room that no one is addressing…

7. How are you going to qualify your additive manufacturing parts?

8. Why am I qualified to talk about this?
My name is Steve Traynor, and I’ve been working with The QC Group for 12 years…

9. Challenges. Medical, Aerospace & Automotive industries
Pressure to find a measurement solution
Time & Cost
Products made but unmeasureable

10. Regulations.
Medical, Aerospace & Automotive industries

11. Pressure to Find a Measurement Solution.
When comparing an industrial CT scan to traditional methods of inspection, three main factors should be considered: cost, time and value.

12. Time & Cost.
We call know how important time to market is.

13. There is a solution.

14. CT Scanning.
CT Scanning allows manufacturers to qualify their part in a non-destructive way where no other form of inspection can. Precision parts with small, complex, and fine geometry from the medical and aerospace industries benefit particularly from this technology, since they are very difficult to measure using even the most advanced laser-based scanning or CMM. This is a quick and accurate way to validate the internal geometry of additively-manufactured parts in 3D without applying any external forces or pressure that may alter or warp them.

15. Prototype.

16. Scan.
ALL scanning platforms – regardless of capture technology - output a point-cloud of data.
Rather than use hand tools, point-to-point measurements, 3D scans capture the original part’s geometry. Saving an incredible amount of time, with higher accuracy.

17. CAD Model.
Using the sanitized digital representation of the part, a parametric or organic model can be built with extreme accuracy.

18. The finished model is compared to the actual point data (step 1) to confirm its accuracy.

19. IMView in 5 minutes, or more, depending on your time check.

20. Conclusion
The reason that this part is not a candidate for traditional manufacturing methods is the same reason is that it is not a candidate for traditional inspection methods, but it is just as vulnerable for failure. Additive manufacturing machines spec equipment - There are no ANSY standards to measure the accuracy of your equipment. So you’re left to trust the vendor. 
Industrial CT scanning can qualify additive manufactured parts quickly while reducing inspection costs, using the right technology, expert analytical support and scan data calibration to ensure accuracy.

21. Questions.

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