Standards guide 3D printing processes, materials, and equipment. They ensure quality, safety, and consistency across applications, supporting innovation and reliable production worldwide.

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Quality management principles: The foundation for success

At the heart of organizational excellence lies quality management, a systematic approach that has transformed how businesses operate, compete and thrive. The ISO quality management principles serve as a fundamental framework that guides organizations from proficiency to peak performance.

Technician inspects a turbine wheel that has just finished printing in a 3D printer.

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New file format for 3D printers

ISO/ASTM 52915, just published, will help realize the full potential of additive manufacturing.

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ISO and ASTM International unveil framework for creating global additive manufacturing standards

ISO and ASTM International have jointly crafted the Additive Manufacturing Standards Development Structure, a framework which will help meet the needs for new technical standards in this fast-growing field. Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is the process of joining materials layer upon layer, as opposed to “subtractive manufacturing” methods such as machining.

Sample standards

Information technology — 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) specification suite

Additive manufacturing of metals — Non-destructive testing and evaluation — Classification of imperfections in DED parts

Additive manufacturing — General Principles — Framework for the Implementation of a Level System for temporarily self-sufficient systems

Additive manufacturing for aerospace — General principles
Part classifications for additive manufactured parts used in aviation

Additive manufacturing of metals — Finished part properties — Orientation and location dependence of mechanical properties for metal parts

Additive manufacturing for metals — Qualification principles — Test method for indentation plastometry