Dyndrite Corporation, 1201 3rd Ave, Suite 2200, Seattle, WA, 98101
Stephen Anderson
Biography
Based in the UK Stephen is responsible for Dyndrite commercial strategy, business development and working with Dyndrite’s clients worldwide. Stephen has a 25-year background in software and business leadership. Stephen joined Dyndrite in Spring 2020. Beforehand, he was Business Development Manager (USA) for Renishaw PLC, a world leader in engineering: metrology, motion control and precision machining plus manufacturer of metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion systems and software. Prior, as Renishaw Group Software Director he led over 200 software engineers and managed much of the Group’s software diverse portfolio across industrial metrology, healthcare and AM build preparation, job management and in-situ process monitoring software. Dyndrite provides revolutionary software that dramatically improves the daily working lives of designers, engineers and technicians. With a focus on AM design software our mission is to provide AM companies, developers and their end-users with the fastest GPU based tools, including the world’s first native GPU-powered geometry processing kernel, to power the AM industry’s next-generation innovative solutions and workflows.
Conferences
Room |
Date |
Hour |
Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room 6 |
25-03-2026 |
11:35 am – 11:55 am |
113 A Novel Delta Qualification Framework for Multi-Platform Metal Additive Manufacturing of Aerospace Hardware |
Conferences Details
113 A Novel Delta Qualification Framework for Multi-Platform Metal Additive Manufacturing of Aerospace Hardware
The aerospace industry currently relies on slow, costly, and machine-specific qualification models for metal additive manufacturing (AM). Legacy systems treat every machine setup as an isolated « black box, » forcing repetitive trial-and-error testing that limits national production capacity for critical components like solid rocket motors. A « Delta Qualification Framework » is proposed to replace static, machine-specific qualification with a software-defined, physics-based methodology. The framework reweights qualification efforts « to the left, » emphasizing upstream Installation Qualification (IQ) and Operational Qualification (OQ). Using Dyndrite’s Python-driven toolpath engine, the framework ensures Build File Equivalency by generating identical scan vectors and machine-specific compensations across diverse OEM platforms, including EOS, Nikon SLM, and Velo3D. Validation builds across seven different LPBF systems demonstrated a dimensional variation of less than ± 20µm. The approach achieved an 80% reduction in qualification costs, a 50% reduction in part supports, and a 200% increase in build speed while automating over 95% of build preparation tasks..
Keywords: Delta Qualification, LPBF, Process Qualification, Parameter Development, Digital Thread
