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Additive Assurance has signed a domestic distributorship agreement with NTT Data XAM Technologies Corp. (XAM) to bring its AMiRIS real-time quality assurance system to Japan’s metal powder bed fusion additive manufacturing market. The agreement gives Additive Assurance a distribution partner already established among Japanese metal AM customers, while adding real-time process monitoring to XAM’s existing lineup of technical services.
The two companies stated the partnership was meant to address quality assurance and mass production challenges facing Japan’s metal PBF sector, pairing Additive Assurance’s monitoring technology with XAM’s technical capabilities.
Linking AMiRIS with existing hardware
Under the agreement, XAM is set to provide technical support and implementation for AMiRIS, drawing on its accumulated metal AM expertise. The company is also planning to connect AMiRIS with equipment already installed in Japan, including printers from EOS and AMCM, and to fold the resulting process data into its manufacturing support services for customers pursuing digital transformation.
Marten Jurg, Chief Executive Officer of Additive Assurance, said: “Through this partnership, we look forward to delivering innovative real-time quality assurance solutions to customers in Japan.”
XAM was established in 2020 as a spin-off from NTT Data Engineering Systems, though the company traced its additive manufacturing lineage back to 1993, when it became Japan’s first distributor for EOS equipment.