Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference 2019

When Siemens in Finspong introduced selective laser melting (SLM) on a broader scale, it became soon clear that the machine performance did not reach the high expectations concerning process stability, repeatability and transferability between several machines of the same type. That is why Siemens with the involvement of machine learning and big data specialists developed the “Siemens AM Monitor”. The present status is described and an overview over the future development is given. Typical imperfections are discussed.