Metals and additive manufacturing

A process moves to a new machine, site or scale, and the setpoints carry over more easily than the physics behind them.

A qualification lot is an expensive way to discover that. The pre-mortem finds it in the records you already have.

Additively manufactured metal housings with their support structures, still on the build plate — A powder lot that changed, and the parts that stopped passing.

Know what survives the move, before you spend the lot.

A ranked list of what will not carry over to the new machine, site or scale, each with the mechanism behind it and the cheapest check to run first, so the qualification lot goes to the runs that matter.

What it does here

Where the physics is unknown for your case, it is reported as unknown, with the measurement that would close it.

Transfer pre-mortembefore the lot

What will not survive the moveranked

The mechanism for eachstated

What carries overconfirmed

Cheapest check firstnamed

What could not be settledflagged with the test

We are building this now.

The same engine runs coating analysis in production today, and this industry is where we are taking it next: the same agents and models, fitted to the records this industry keeps. The case slots below stay empty until there is real work in them and a customer who agrees to publish it.

A transfer that would have failed

The two machines, what differed, and the check that caught it before the qualification lot.

Not yet published

A scale-up read from existing runs

What the small-scale record could and could not say about the large one.