The Advantage of IPQA vs Post-process Inspection
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The table is from the report "In-Process Quality Assurance for Welding: Historical Development, Underlying Technology, and Current Applications" written by Vivek R. Dave, Daniel A. Hartman, and Mark J. Cola and displayed as media at Sigma Lab's subsidiary, B6 Sigma . The table was published in a 2009 welding journal discussing in-process quality control (IPQA) for aerospace welding applications Notice from the table:
Foward looking, Constant and Pervasive, and Same Timescale as Manufacturing.
Prabhjot Singh, Manager of the Additive Manufacturing Lab at GE Global Research, states in this article that the lack of the closed-loop process can consume as much as 30% of manufacturing time and a substantial issue in AM. Without the closed-loop process control, or IPQA to control welding instructions, manufacturers will be inefficient in their operations. This is how PrintRite3D will serve as the catalyst to propel an enterprise over their competitors in world manufacturing industries.
There are no competitors to offer in-process quality assurance for AM. This is highly sophisticated technology developed by metallurgists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sigma Labs will lead among 3D printing companies in the manufacturing industry.