AMiRIS Inside added to Nikon SLM’s NXG for real-time quality control
Nikon SLM Solutions AG, headquartered in Lübeck, Germany, and Additive Assurance, based in Melbourne, Australia, have announced a strategic partnership to integrate AMiRIS Inside into Nikon SLM Solutions’ NXG Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing machine.
The collaboration will deliver a fully integrated monitoring solution that provides real-time melt pool and layer analysis, enabling even highly complex multi-laser builds to meet industrial standards for consistency and reliability. Together, Nikon SLM Solutions and Additive Assurance intend this integration to act as a decisive step towards certifiable serial Additive Manufacturing production, thus enabling users in aerospace, defence, and energy markets to produce larger, more complex components.
“From our experience using Nikon SLM Solutions’ and Additive Assurance’s equipment, we have come to realise that the true benefit will be in further integration of such technology leaders’ products together. This is the first great step in that direction and in particular, for the aerospace industry to give more confidence in large part production,” said Prof Milan Brandt, Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University.
“This partnership with Nikon SLM Solutions is a perfect fusion of two best-in-class technologies,” stated Marten Jurg, CEO, Additive Assurance. “By embedding AMiRIS Inside with Nikon SLM’s market-leading NXG platform, we’ve put the customer’s need for reliability at the heart of the solution. It’s this strength that gives manufacturers confidence to innovate and expand their manufacturing boundaries.”
Simon Merkt-Schippers, Vice President Research & Development, Nikon SLM Solutions, added, “By bringing together Additive Assurance’s advanced monitoring technology and our high-productivity multi-laser systems, we are redefining what’s possible in large-scale metal AM. This is the first time in the industry that twelve lasers are being observed simultaneously by a near-infrared optical tomography system — a milestone that underscores Nikon SLM Solutions’ leadership in industrialising Additive Manufacturing.”
Attendees can learn more at Formnext 2025 at the booths of Nikon SLM Solutions (Hall 12.0, Booth D119) and Additive Assurance (Hall 12.0, Booth C01).
