Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

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Yes indeed Jackle. This is where the ICME framework comes into play that I'm so bent on and why I've been very excited since we started the work with DARPA and Honeywell on being built into the verification phase of the ICME framework. Mark is setting up Sigma Labs to be successful for a long time. Many companies are adopting ICME as I've stated before. Good Times are in the future.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) instituted a new program to improve on the methodology and tool set and to cut the applied material development process by at least 75 percent, according to the agency. Currently, the process can take an average of 10 years or more, but DARPA’s Materials Development for Platforms (MDP) program aims to reduce the time to 2.5 years. The agency proposes doing so by establishing what officials say is a cross-disciplinary model that incorporates materials science and engineering, or the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) principles, and the platform development disciplines of engineering, design, analysis and manufacturing.
“In this program, we want to move from the current mindset of sporadic ‘pushes’ in materials technology development to a mindset that ‘pulls’ materials technology forward driven by platform design intent and mission need,” Mick Maher, DARPA program manager, says in a statement. “Ideally, we could envision materials development happening on time scales more in line with modern commercial automobile development.”
DARPA plans to test the concept using a hypersonic platform design, a “bold and pressing challenge, since hypersonic vehicles operate under extreme conditions that push state-of-the-art materials to their thermal, chemical and structural limits,” according to DARPA. Via MDP, DARPA plans to test and, hopefully, develop and manufacture new materials for the vehicle’s outer shell within 2.5 years.

- See more at: http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=darpas-plan-speed-new-material-development-could-shave-years-process#sthash.gdXcrMxz.dpuf

Task 2 developed
optimized build parameters for the chosen
718Plus Alloy, carried out experiments to
calibrate, validate and verify the ICME methods
developed during the program, and implemented
in-process monitoring and with the data gathered
developed In-Process Quality Assurance
(IPQA®) metrics to identify suspect builds
which may not meet part requirements. Task 3
developed a probabilistic framework for the
rapid qualification of the additively
manufactured parts for aerospace application.
The ICME tools developed during the program
were calibrated, validated, and verified by
experimental data developed during Phase I. At
the end of Period I, the program was able to
demonstrate the feasibility of applying ICME
tools to accelerating the understanding of the
powder bed additive manufacturing process.

https://drc.libraries.uc.edu/bitstream/handle/2374.UC/745730/ISABE2015_CS%26A_Vinod%20Nangia_227_MANUSCRIPT_20139.pdf?sequence=2