Nonprofit organization ASTM International announced its third round of funding to support research that will help expedite standards in additive manufacturing (AM).

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The group creates and publishes technical standards for a range of industries, materials, products, services, and systems around the globe. This new investment, which includes additional in-kind contributions, will support the ASTM International AM Center of Excellence (AM CoE) goal of aligning technical standardization with a rapidly evolving and safer AM industry.

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About three years ago, when ASTM announced that it would be setting up AM CoE, it began enlisting partners to help launch the center. Today, founding members Auburn University , the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), manufacturing technology innovator EWI , and the UK-based Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), are working on several R&D projects to help fill over 25 standards gaps identified in an AM roadmap . This year, over 60 ideas for projects […]

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