Additive Assurance CCO David Menzies details AMiRIS in-situ monitoring platform and Nikon SLM Solutions partnership on Additive Insight podcast

Additive Assurance Chief Commercial Officer David Menzies discussed the company's AMiRIS in-situ monitoring platform on TCT's Additive Insight podcast, outlining its core quality-assurance capabilities for metal powder bed fusion. Menzies detailed the motivation behind Additive Assurance's recent partnership with Nikon SLM Solutions, describing it as a way to keep the monitoring software aligned with metal AM hardware providers as they scale production capacity. AMiRIS has already been commercialized across aerospace, defense, energy, and healthcare customers, according to Menzies.

In-situ process monitoring sits at the center of the qualification burden that separates demonstration cells from repeatable metal AM factories, since aerospace and medical buyers require documented, part-level evidence of build consistency rather than machine specifications alone. Partnering with an OEM like Nikon SLM Solutions gives Additive Assurance a built-in hardware distribution channel, a common structure for quality-governance vendors that do not manufacture their own printers. The multi-vertical customer base Menzies cited, spanning aerospace, defense, energy, and healthcare, indicates the platform has moved past pilot deployments into production-adjacent use across the qualification-heavy end of the market.

For monitoring vendors, OEM co-selling is becoming the practical way to keep pace as machine fleets scale faster than any single software provider's direct sales reach.