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Understanding the difference between monitoring, inspection, and qualification is essential for scaling additive manufacturing from prototyping to production. While process monitoring provides visibility into machine behaviour and build conditions, inspection delivers direct, measurable data about part quality, and qualification establishes confidence that parts consistently meet required standards. This article explores how these three layers of additive manufacturing quality control work together, why monitoring alone is often insufficient for production environments, and how measurement-driven inspection bridges the gap between process data and qualification. Learn how advanced in-situ inspection technologies are helping manufacturers reduce uncertainty, improve process control, and accelerate the adoption of production-scale additive manufacturing.

In-situ inspection is transforming additive manufacturing by bringing real-time measurement and analysis directly into the build process. Instead of detecting defects after production is complete, manufacturers can now identify, quantify, and track issues layer by layer as they occur. This shift from reactive inspection to continuous process insight is helping aerospace, defense, and medical manufacturers improve quality, reduce inspection bottlenecks, and scale additive manufacturing with greater confidence.

Discover how quality assurance in additive manufacturing ensures consistent part quality through real-time monitoring, in-situ inspection, and data-driven process control. Learn why QA is essential for reducing defects, lowering costs, and enabling scalable production.

Phase3D today announced the release of two new large-format Fringe Inspection™ Systems for metal additive manufacturing. The new systems, Large Format Fringe Inspection™ and Large Format Fringe Inspection™ Hi-Rez, extend Phase3D’s in-situ inspection technology to support the EOS M 400 series of printers and other large-format platforms such as the Nikon SLM NXG product line.

Discover how Phase3D’s Fringe Inspection™ technology revolutionises spatter detection in metal additive manufacturing (AM) by linking surface roughness measurements to porosity. Unlike traditional camera-based or AI-driven monitoring, Fringe Inspection delivers quantitative, traceable, micron-accurate data, revealing how gas flow inefficiencies and energy density affect part quality. 

Accelerating Additive Manufacturing Quality Reviews with Fringe Operator™
In high-volume additive manufacturing, inspecting thousands of build layers for anomalies is a major bottleneck. One manufacturer using Phase3D’s Fringe Inspection cut review times by over 70% by combining Quality Chart anomaly visualisation with Adjustable Colorbars. 

Discover how leading manufacturers are using Phase3D’s Fringe Inspection™ to improve additive manufacturing outcomes in this on-demand customer panel webinar. Featuring real-world insights from Elementum 3D, Alloyed, and CCAM, the session explores how in-situ heightmap data is transforming production monitoring, reducing scrap, and ensuring part quality in real-time.