Additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing have gone from a novelty to a trusted manufacturing method for high-performance products and components. In aerospace applications, for instance, it can be used to create new porous or hollow components with internal geometries that maintain strength while reducing weight. However, such designs demand quality control and inspection techniques capable of imaging interior structures with extreme speed and precision. 

In industrial manufacturing, image resolution alone is never enough. Quality control also needs to take place during manufacturing and in real time to prevent the introduction of undetected deviations or defects. This makes rapid X-ray computed tomography (CT) the ideal candidate for inspection of products and processes utilizing additive manufacturing.  Due to their higher X-ray brightness, MetalJet X-ray sources can significantly boost the throughput speeds of today’s X-ray CT inspection systems. Alternatively, the high-resolution NanoTube systems can both expand inspection coverage and reveal defects and features that were previously impossible to see. 

Excillum additive manufacturing x-rays 2

Brochures

MetalJet and NanoTube for X-ray imaging applications

Webinars

Browse our on-demand webinars

Why Excillum?

Learn more about us

Recommended products for additive manufacturing

MetalJet E1+

NanoTube N3

Related X-ray methods

Imaging
Powder X-ray Diffraction (pXRD)

Latest posts from the Knowledge Center

Filter

Press releases

Excillum and Royma enhance battery inspection with inline CT

May 27, 2025 - Excillum and Royma partner to further increase inspection speed and accuracy.
Press releases

Excillum and Baker Hughes’ Waygate Technologies announce technology collaboration for high-resolution X-ray computed tomography

May 6, 2025 - Excillum and Baker Hughes' Waygate Technologies today announced a technology collaboration.
Webinars

Battery quality control from first principles

Peter Attia, cofounder and CTO of Glimpse, discusses how to approach battery quality control from…