Securing Confidence for the Energy Sector
In situ quality assurance meeting the unique demands for the energy sector
The Challenge
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Production Bottlenecks & Delays
Traditional post-build QA is a slow, separate step. For critical energy infrastructure, this non-productive time means significant project delays, increased costs, and slower deployment of vital components.
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Unverifiable Internal Geometries
Energy components like heat exchangers and turbine parts rely on complex internal channels and passages. Verifying the integrity and properties of these hidden features is often impossible with traditional post-build inspection, creating a major adoption risk.
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Scaling Inspection for Large Components
The sector is moving toward larger, consolidated parts to improve efficiency. This trend is outgassing the capabilities of post-build inspection equipment, as parts simply become too large or dense for CMM and CT scanning.
The Additive Assurance Solution
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Inspect at the Speed of Print
Our in situ monitoring provides real-time analytics during the build. This integrates quality assurance directly into the production process, eliminating post-build bottlenecks and accelerating qualification from months to days.
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Achieve 100% Visibility, Inside and Out
Our system monitors every layer as it is created, providing complete data on the integrity of internal geometries. This allows you to validate complex channels and hidden features, guaranteeing performance before the part ever leaves the build plate.
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Remove Part Size as a Barrier
Because our system inspects the part directly in the machine, it scales with your build. Quality is assured for the entire part, regardless of its final size, ensuring that inspection limits never constrain your design ambitions.
Applications in the Energy Sector
Assuring Integrity for Fluid Systems
Heat Exchangers, Manifolds, and Fluid Systems
Challenges:
Energy components like next-generation heat exchangers and manifolds depend on complex internal channels to function. Their performance is dictated by features that cannot be seen or measured after the build:
- Wall Thickness: Must be precise to ensure thermal transfer and pressure containment.
- Channel Integrity: Must be free of obstacles and dross to ensure flow rates.
- Geometric Accuracy: Must match the design to prevent leaks and ensure efficiency.
Traditional NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) like CT scanning struggles to penetrate dense metal or resolve fine-scale features in a large, complex part, leaving performance to chance.
AMiRIS Benefit:
Our system provides visibility during the build by monitoring every layer. Validate critical wall thickness, confirm channel integrity by detecting defects as they form, and verify internal dimensions in real-time.
Removing Inspection Size Limits
Large Turbine Components, Valve Bodies, and Structural Nodes
Challenges:
The energy sector is using AM to consolidate assemblies and print large, monolithic components. This creates a critical bottleneck: the parts are too big to inspect.
CT Scanners have physical size limits and Radiographic Testing (RT) cannot be trusted in complex geometries, leaving internal sections of large parts completely blind. This forces manufacturers to rely on slow, expensive, or destructive testing, fundamentally limiting the business case for large-format AM.
AMiRIS Benefit:
Our monitoring system is integrated into the build process, making part size irrelevant. Because inspection happens one layer at a time, we are never limited by the part's final volume or density.
If You Can Build It, You Can Inspect It. This removes the NDT barrier, de-risking the production of large-scale components. You can confidently design and build at the full scale of your AM system, knowing that quality is assured for the entire part, not just the outside.
Secure Your Production. Lead the Industry.
Remove the inspection limits on your largest and most complex parts.