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Overcoming Challenges in Inspecting Additively-Manufactured Parts

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February 20, 2025

Date: February 20, 2025

Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Registration: Free

Mode: Virtual (via Zoom)

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Quality and reliability are crucial in additive manufacturing – especially in regulated industries such as aerospace, medical, and automotive. An important factor here is inspection and quality assurance. The challenge here is that 3D-printed components often have internal structures, residual stresses and material inconsistencies that are barely visible from the outside.

We will be discussing the current challenges and solutions in inspection in this webinar. Dr. Don Roth, Inspection Fellow at Wohlers Associates, one of the leading experts in this field, will present the latest developments and answer your questions. The program is structured to cover the following topics:

  1. General Overview of Inspection Techniques
  2. AM Inspection Challenges
  3. X-Ray Computed Tomography of AM Parts: Case Studies
  4. Q&A

The webinar will help you to understand why the right knowledge about inspection not only enables reliable AM production, but can also help to improve the entire production process, including component design. Don’t miss this opportunity—reserve your spot today!

Speaker

Don Roth, Ph.D.
Technical Fellow, Inspection Specialist
Wohlers Associates, powered by ASTM International

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Dr. Don Roth is the Technical Fellow, Inspection Specialist at Wohlers Associates, Powered by ASTM International. Additionally, he is also President at Roth Technical Consulting, LLC / Global X-ray Inspection Institute. Prior to joining Wohlers Associates, he served as the NDE Consulting Analyst and NAS-410 RT/DR/CT Level III at Joby Aviation from 2020 to 2024, where he developed various aspects of the DR/CT environment including facility, quality system, techniques, and staff.

His resume also includes stints from 2014 into 2020 as the Global Radiography Leader for Additive and Castings for GE/Baker Hughes/Waygate Inspection Technologies, and as the senior staff technologist at GE Aviation dedicated to developing X-ray CT production inspection methods for the first ceramic composites to be used in GE engines. At Inspection Technologies, he also helped create and teach a 5-day course on X-ray CT leading to education credits for NDT certification. Dr. Roth also spent 31 years at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH, mostly as the NDE Sciences Team Lead, where he managed a team of contractors proficient in NDE research. His efforts there focused on NDE R&D and applications for aerospace and aviation.

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