Recently, Xiris had the pleasure of working with the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) team at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. AML has been using the XVC 1000 camera to assist with its metal additive manufacturing automation process. AML has used CCD cameras in the past, but according to Joshua Hammell, Research Scientist and AML Lab Manager, “the high dynamic range of the XVC-1000, provides orders of magnitude more information about the process, while removing the need for different optical filters during cold alignment and high temperature processing. This is a major advantage for process automation.”
The XVC 1000 has been an essential tool for machine and process development, saving the team at AML a great deal of time and money. The initial plan for the camera was for laboratory use only; however, AML has since decided that the cameras will be integrated into all of its metal additive manufacturing systems for process monitoring during production.
Details of the current AML process are very confidential but AML has granted us permission to show an older process development video taken with the XVC 1000…
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