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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Carl Hockley, Berlin, DE;
Yaroslav Lebed, Berlin, DE;
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Quality control method and control system for a stock of a base material for the additive manufacture of components includes selecting a batch of a base material out of a plurality of indexed batches of the stock, wherein base material assigned to the same batch index is indicative to the quality of the respective base material, loading a quantity of base material of the selected batch into a manufacturing system, additively manufacturing the component from the base material, wherein the base material of the selected batch is exposed to manufacturing conditions in a build area and updating the batch index of the base material remaining from the additive manufacture in the build area according to the exposure.