Sigma Labs Inc (www.sigmalabsinc.com), which has its headquarters in Santa Fe (New Mexico) and provides quality assurance software under the PrintRite3D brand, has joined the Additive Alliance of Fraunhofer IAPT — a leading network for Additive Manufacturing (AM).

The first US company to become a member of the Alliance, Sigma Labs can now demonstrate the PrintRite3D technology
to key players in the market of metal AM.

CEO John Rice said: “Being a member of the Additive Alliance of Fraunhofer IAPT is another meaningful milestone for Sigma Labs.

"Working together with the Alliance and its members, which encompass leading companies, OEMs, service providers and machine manufacturers, we look forward to helping build the future of additive manufacturing.

"We strongly believe that our PrintRite3D technology will play a major role in the quality assurance of AM processes.”

Antje Vosshenrich, head of the Additive Alliance at Fraunhofer IAPT, said: “We are happy to welcome Sigma Labs as a new member of our Additive Alliance and to strengthen the competences of the network in the field of quality assurance in AM. In-process quality assurance will be a key enabler for the industrialisation of AM.”

The Additive Alliance of Fraunhofer IAPT (www.iapt.fraunhofer.de/de/leistungen/additive-alliance.html) is a leading network for additive manufacturing.

Alliance members: benefit from the experience of the first industry and research network of its kind for additive manufacturing; combine knowledge from various fields of business and develop innovative solutions; find solutions along the entire process chain, with more than 30 members contributing the necessary experience; get access to the on-line knowledge base of the Additive Alliance, containing the results and materials from all previous Additive Alliance events; use the research possibilities of the network; and actively design its collective research road map.