A review on qualification and certification for metal additive manufacturing

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has tremendous potential for geometrically complex metallic products with freedom of design and desirable performance. Qualification certification are critical to ensuring the successful adoption metal AM by various sectors accelerating standardisation progress. This article provides a comprehensive review on status challenges qualification AM, which is timely summary bridge readiness gap between technologies developed at academia industry. It begins introducing fundamentals certification. Thereafter, standards, rules, regulations international organisations communities summarised discussed. The then addressed, including process, materials, process reliability repeatability, post-processing, data, standards protocols. Finally, conclusion future outlook drawn provide guidance research development.