The living laboratory is an experimental environment for the joint development and testing of digital quality assurance methods such as smart standards, digital calibration certificates (DCC), digital test reports and the digital product passport (DPP) in Additive Manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing is a pilot project of the QI-Digital initiative.

Participation opportunities

  • Via cost-neutral cooperation, commissioning or consulting
  • Formulation of industrial requirements for the living laboratory for digital quality assurance
  • Testing of critical component geometries
  • Testing of individual process parameters and scanning strategies
  • Development/testing of methods for data registration and fusion
  • Experimental validation of simulations

Research operations and technical facilities

Digital linked process chain (ETL)

Digital linked process chain (ETL)

Source: BAM

Technical systems

Build job preparation
Manufacturing and Monitoring
Documentation
Post-processing
Ex-situ QA quality assurance


Data management system DMS

  • Digital linked process chain (ETL) incl. monitoring
  • Identification of system-independent quality-relevant parameters
  • Process monitoring and ML
  • Development of data reduction & registration algorithms
  • Audit in accordance with ISO/ASTM 52920

The living laboratory in a digital quality infrastructure

The living laboratory is an instrument for the testing of new digital assets of the quality infrastructure and, with Quality-X, digitalizing the exchange of data between QI stakeholders.

To this end, the integration of content from digital standards (in the future smart standards) is being investigated in the living lab. One example is the import of process requirements to automatically compare them with the process data., e.g. to read in process requirements and automatically compare them with the process data. The output of results in the form of a digital test report is being trialled.

Quality-X forms the federated network for trustworthy data exchange between stakeholders (based on Gaia-X).

The vision of a digital QI in modern production.

The vision of a digital QI in modern production.

Source: BAM

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