FAA-EASA workshop

Last week, I had the chance to participate to the on-invitation EASA-FAA workshop, gathering regulatory authorities and the industry to exchange about additive manufacturing. My personal take away from the excellent meeting about in-situ monitoring:
 
🥉 Impressive how the industry is now able to deliver critical parts for aviation using metal additive manufacturing !
 
🎯 Cost reduction is crucial for the growth of the industry. The key enabler is the enhancement of the in situ monitoring (ISM) capability to reduce post processing costs.
 
📣 With the present ISM, some defects go unnoticed, requiring post process inspections that delay the delivery and increase the costs. New in-situ sensorics able to deliver relevant information about material quality and subsurface defects is missing and strongly needed.
 
🥢 Glad to see that the electromagnetic imaging techniques used in our products and that can do the job are now considered as potential candidate for ISM and in-situ inspection.
 
🙏 And a request to conclude: Machine manufacturers should make sure they consider future monitoring solutions that may strongly help their customers when they design new machines.