Materialise has gained EN 9100 certification for its steel AM processes for aerospace, certifying that its high quality administration system ensures product high quality, course of management, regulatory compliance, and steady enchancment.
The corporate already holds EN 9100 (a sector-specific variant of ISO 9001) for its polymer additive manufacturing processes devoted to the sector, producing upwards of 500,000 flying elements to this point for plane OEMs, suppliers, and MROs.
This improvement, due to this fact, may characterize a significant step ahead within the adoption of Materialise’s steel 3D-printed functionality for aviation and house.
Materialise is one of some additive manufacturing suppliers to be licensed to Airbus AIPI requirements — just lately reaching the very best doable grade on the Airbus High quality Maturity evaluation — and likewise holds a Manufacturing Group Approval (POA) from EASA, enabling them to fabricate flight-ready elements to Kind 1 accreditation. With EN 9100 certification for steel now complementing its current credentials, Materialise is able to assist all the aerospace worth chain determine and supply flight-ready steel or polymer 3D-printed elements, with low-criticality elements thought-about a very sturdy alternative for the sector.
Erik de Zeeuw, Market Supervisor for Aerospace at Materialise, commented: “Low-criticality elements that must be gentle, sturdy, and sturdy, equivalent to seat bezels, housings, inside trims, or ducts, are significantly sturdy candidates. They usually must be repaired or changed, however in small portions. These are necessities that align completely with key advantages of steel 3D printing, together with the power to have digital ‘on-demand’ inventory for sooner, extra dependable sourcing, and cost-efficient manufacturing of small sequence elements.
“The standard and course of management system now we have in place simplifies the digital thread essential for qualifying 3D-printed steel elements. And that’s one thing we’re extremely enthusiastic about. We’re prepared to speak to and work with our intensive community of companions in house and aviation to determine, produce, and develop the proper purposes for steel AM. Collectively, we will certainly see an entire raft of latest alternatives fairly actually take flight.”
It’s Materialise’s second important aerospace-related replace of 2025 after the opening of an Aerospace Competence Heart in Delft, Netherlands.
