AddUp Dashboards Displays Additive Manufacturing Status at a Glance

AddUp Dashboards is a multiscale monitoring software that is available with all AddUp FormUp Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) and BeAM Directed Energy Deposition (DED) machines. The software is said to provide a clear picture of both real-time and historic process data for the machine and presents it in an easy-to-read dashboard view.

The software collects and displays data for an unlimited number of FormUp and BeAM machines regardless of their physical location and displays a summary on an overview home screen. This is said to provide a birds-eye view of a full production fleet of machines, offering status and progress at a glance. Users can see the big picture for the last month or check what happened during the last layering cycle for a particular build.

The system is said to offer real-time and historical data at users’ fingertips. The monitoring software displays data for 80 process parameters, including oxygen level, humidity level, state of the lasers, forces measured in all moving components, consumption of powder, state of gas flow and more. Key process parameters are adapted depending on the nature of the machine connected: PBF or DED. This real-time data is refreshed at a rate as quick as 5 seconds.

It is said the software tracks data from every build and the historical data is available for viewing with just a click. Using this software, users can see a complete history of each machine, including basic information such as how many builds have been completed all the way down to each individual layer for any given print. This historical data is particularly useful to monitor machine health to keep the machine running at optimal performance, the company says.

The user interface is said to offer over 25 data visualization styles that can be customized to meet the needs of specific users. It is said color schemes and data panels can easily be changed, moved, resized, duplicated and edited to show whatever information is most important. The software also includes an alerting system with email notification capabilities to single or multiple users, including custom threshold definition. This gives the ability to be informed when a machine status is potentially drifting, enabling users to address a fault before it becomes a problem.