An educational presentation aimed at helping organizations as they begin mass-producing parts in their AM production facilities has opened registration for the webinar, September 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
The presentation, hosted by Bluestreak/Bright A.M., is titled, “Additive Manufacturing Production Work Order & Process Management Best Practices” and will address the additive manufacturing process from the completion of the design phase including, best practices for work order entry, through shipping the completed parts.
In addition, participants will hear from Todd Wenzel, presenter, about lessons learned after working with AM production facilities (in the U.S. and other countries) for the past several years. Every AM production facility has its own unique problem areas, production issues, and headache-causing events once a work order has been received for producing additively manufactured parts. Additionally, some part-builds come with stringent specification (and compliance) requirements that must be adhered to.
As products are being designed, made and used in new ways, Additive Manufacturing production facilities are all working towards continuous improvement in each operational step within their predefined AM production processes, as well as more complete documentation (especially in aerospace and medical applications). Time will also be spent discussing real-time job tracking, and individual part tracking as parts that were created on the same build plate with different serial numbers may progress throughout the production facility processing steps in different ways and in different processing order, in some cases.
Topics to be covered include:
- Work order instructions, media attachments, real-time tracking
- Build-Plate management and serialization (multiple parts with different serial numbers printed on the same Build-plate)
- Nonconformances/Advanced Dispositioning
- Part Production Tracking: Sequential, out-of-sequence, multiple possible routes
- Managing outside vendor processing
- Tracking machine time, labor time, material usage (virgin, 1x, 2x)
- Collecting and requiring quality data
- Connecting/viewing specifications, operating instructions, and QMS documents directly from the production floor
- Using specifications to automatically qualify equipment, operators, or vendors, to prevent improper processing of the parts.
- Connected/complete documentation (makes auditors very happy)
- The Best Way to have a complete AM processing audit trail for each part produced with all associated documents linked together
- Defining and generating new work order “packages” for repeat part builds
The presentation includes content applicable to Additive Manufacturing Applications, Facilities & Operations, Final Part Production, Part Inspection and Certification, Post Processing, Process Monitoring, Control and Qualification, Quality and Standards, Process Control and Quality Management tied directly to individual operators on the production floor.
For more information and to register, click here.
