Run a wedge on one machine
Melt-pool prediction, CT triage or recipe optimisation, with a metric you already measure.
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Start with the machine that is costing you the most.
Powdrix starts with a paid pilot on one printer or inspection cell and a baseline agreed in writing. Tell us the machine, the metric and the systems on it. We will say plainly whether the wedge fits and what the first ninety days would look like.
Reasons
Why people get in touch
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AM-machine OEMs, in-situ and CT vendors, post-processing and MES vendors, integrators.
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We answer plainly, including what is planned rather than done, and what is cited rather than certified.
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Edge perception, OT integration, simulation, additive process engineering.
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On melt pools, qualification, build simulation and autonomy on the floor.
Pre-seed conversation
Pre-revenue, pre-institutional. We do not claim traction we do not have.
First 90 days
What an engagement looks like
The first-release plan, applied to your machine.
- Connect and observe. Read-only connection to the wedge machine, the time-aligned build and layer record built, the baseline measured from your own build records and CT outcomes.
- Assist. Recommendations with evidence in the review console; your engineer approves each one; accuracy and ROI measured against the signed baseline.
- Bounded autonomy, if you are satisfied. Low-risk in-situ, parameter and inspection loops run inside the qualified envelope; anything that affects qualification stays with named humans.
- Decision. Convert to the Machine tier and expand, or stop with the record of what was measured.
Run timeline · scenario
What we would be deploying
Every Powdrix run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_7c2e4b on PBF-2 · Ti-6Al-4V bracket family, 24-part build. Scenario completes in 10 steps with one approval gate. Twin recipe #14 selected, one lack-of-fusion precursor at layer 1,872 cleared by a bounded power trim, CT triage in 11 minutes, 23 of 24 parts released with full genealogy and one held for review.
run_7c2e4b
PBF-2 · Ti-6Al-4V bracket family, 24-part build
illustrative scenario
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ingest.job
SUCCEEDED
0.7 s
Floor Orchestrator · Pulled the job from AM MES: 24 Ti-6Al-4V brackets, 60 µm layers, 3,140 layers, density target 99.7%, geometry tolerance ±0.10 mm, AS9100 evidence packet required. Locked the OEM-approved parameter envelope for PBF-2.
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02
twin.simulate
SUCCEEDED
6 m 12 s
Part Twin · Simulated 40 candidate orientation, support and parameter recipes for thermal field, residual stress and distortion, ranked on predicted density, geometry deviation, takt and energy.
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03
prep.release
SUCCEEDED
48 s
Prep-and-Parameter · Recipe #14 released: 32° orientation, lattice supports on two faces, laser power and speed inside the qualified envelope. Predicted distortion 0.06 mm, predicted density 99.8%.
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04
recoat.check
SUCCEEDED
continuous
Recoat-and-Powder · Recoater image checked every layer. Powder lot L-2291 on its third reuse, humidity in window. One short-feed at layer 412 corrected with a dosing increase before the next layer fused.
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05
melt.stabilise
SUCCEEDED
continuous
Melt-and-Layer · Melt-pool, photodiode and thermal streams fused at 120 fps. Lack-of-fusion risk rose to 0.61 on part 17 at layer 1,872 and was cleared by a 3% power trim inside the envelope within four layers.
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06
thermal.compensate
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2 m 04 s
Thermal-and-Distortion · Interlayer temperature on the tall brackets ran 14 °C above the twin's prediction from layer 2,300. A 1.5 s interlayer dwell held the thermal field inside the predicted band through the top section.
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approve.human
APPROVAL
4 m 30 s
Floor Orchestrator · Melt-and-Layer proposed a hatch-spacing change on part 17 beyond the qualified envelope. Held for the AM process engineer, who declined it and chose to flag part 17 for CT priority instead. Decision logged.
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08
handle.depowder
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38 m
Robot-and-Handling · Plate unloaded by the handling cell on build complete, depowdered, and parts transferred to stress relief. Powder returned to the sieve with lot L-2291 reuse count incremented in genealogy.
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inspect.ct
SUCCEEDED
11 m
Defect-and-Inspect · 24 CT volumes segmented for pores, cracks and lack of fusion in 11 minutes. 23 parts graded accept against the acceptance criteria. Part 17 shows a 180 µm indication at layer 1,870 and is routed to the inspector for disposition.
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release.qualify
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1 m 20 s
Quality-and-Conformance · 23 parts released with the full genealogy: recipe, layer tags, melt-pool events, thermal trace, approvals, post-processing cycles and CT result. Part 17 held with a non-conformance opened. Evidence packet assembled for sign-off.
Pricing
Priced per machine, per floor, per group
Land on one printer with a measured baseline. Expand by machine, module, floor and autonomy level. Outcome components are available on build failure, yield, qualification and energy. Annual prepay carries a 15 to 20% discount.
In-situ, parameter-control or inspection AI for one printer. For manufacturers validating ROI on the wedge.
- One printer or inspection cell, one agent module
- Printer-edge Jetson node included
- Machine, camera and CT reads, bounded writes inside the envelope
- Run log, audit trail, build genealogy
- Business-hours support
The whole loop: prep and parameter, melt and layer, recoat and powder, thermal and distortion, defect, post-process, yield and takt, robotic handling and the twin.
- All agents on every machine on the floor
- Poroscan on every inspection cell
- Yieldex scheduling, genealogy and conformance
- Forgebot handling cells
- Parttwin recipe optimisation before every build
- 24/7 support, quarterly model review
Multi-site AM manufacturers and bureaus standardising on Powdrix, with custom alloy, polymer and qualification models.
- Multi-site floor-edge fleet
- Custom alloy, polymer and qualification models
- On-prem GPU inference option
- Group autonomy policy and approval chains
- SLAs, SSO and RBAC, dedicated engineer
- Validated model change control and evidence packs
Guardrails
An agent that can trim laser power needs a leash
Powdrix writes to production printers that make qualified parts. Every capability is scoped to the qualified envelope, every write is policy-checked, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the floor owns.
- Bounded action space. Each agent writes only to an explicit allow-list of printer, oven and cell parameters, inside the OEM-approved envelope and per-tag rate and magnitude limits.
- Policy engine before every write. Autonomy level, part family, qualification status, machine state and operator presence are evaluated before a parameter moves.
- Human approval for qualification-impacting actions. Anything that leaves the qualified envelope, changes a validated recipe or affects a part's disposition waits for a named approver. This stays mandatory until validation exists.
- Immutable audit log. Append-only and exportable. Every action records model version, data lineage, source signals, predicted impact, allowed range, approval status and qualification impact.
- Hard fallback. Loss of the edge node, the network or a model returns control to the printer's own controller and the standing recipe.
- Tenant and IP isolation. Parameter sets, part geometry, defect libraries and process memory never cross a customer boundary. On-prem deployment is available for sensitive producers.
Compliance posture
| Item | Scope | Status |
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| SOC 2 Type I | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, first 6 months |
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| SSO and RBAC | Console and approvals | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| AS9100 and ISO 13485 assurance packages | Evidence packets and model change control | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months; not a certification claim |
| Standards-cited reasoning | AS9100, ISO 13485, ASTM F42, ISO 52900 | RUNNING In the design, every answer cites its source |
| Per-tenant isolation and on-prem option | Recipes, geometry, models, memory | RUNNING In the design from day one |
Integrations
It speaks printer, not cloud
Powdrix reads and writes through the systems already on the floor. No rip and replace, no parallel historian, no new slicer to learn. Vendor names are examples of systems found on additive floors; connector availability is confirmed per site.
Build-preparation and slicer software (Materialise, Autodesk Netfabb, Oqton, Siemens NX AM and nTop class tools)
Geometry, orientation, supports and parameter sets in; validated recipes out
Laser and electron-beam PBF, DED and polymer SLS, MJF and FDM machines through OEM control APIs
Machine state and in-situ streams in; bounded parameter writes inside the envelope
Coaxial and off-axis melt-pool cameras, photodiodes, layer and recoater cameras, thermal sensors (EOS EOSTATE, Nikon SLM, Sigma Additive and Velo3D Assure class systems)
Frames and streams fused at the printer edge
CT scanners, surface vision and metrology (Zeiss, Nikon CT, Waygate and Volume Graphics class systems)
Volumes, images and scans in; grading, routing and packets out
Stress-relief and heat-treatment ovens, HIP units, depowdering and support removal (Solukon, AM Solutions and PostProcess class equipment)
Cycle data in; recipe parameters inside the qualified window out
Sieving, lot tracking and reuse records
Lot, reuse count and quality into genealogy
Jetson and Isaac driven handling cells, grippers, transfer rigs
Build-complete and oven signals in; handling tasks out
AM MES and build management (Oqton, Authentise, 3YOURMIND, AMFG and Materialise CO-AM class systems)
Jobs and orders in; genealogy, holds and dispositions back
FAQ
Straight answers
The questions operations directors, process engineers and certification engineers ask in the first meeting.
Only inside the OEM-approved parameter envelope, only on an explicit allow-list with per-tag limits, and only at the autonomy level your floor has set. Level 1 is advisory: Powdrix predicts and recommends and a human enters everything. Design partners start there, in shadow mode. Anything that leaves the envelope or affects qualification always waits for a named approver.
Control returns to the printer's own controller and the standing recipe. Powdrix is a supervisory layer on top of the machine controls, monitoring systems and MES you already run, never a replacement for them, so an outage degrades the floor to its current way of running, not to a stop.
Advisory recommendations start from the twin's physics and the part spec in the first weeks. Defect and build-failure prediction improve as layers, CT results and engineer corrections accumulate per part family. The first models are trained on existing in-situ camera data; synthetic rare-defect scenarios augment them only after validation against real CT.
Only if you choose cloud training. Parameter sets, geometry, defect libraries and process memory are isolated per tenant and never used to train another customer's models. Cross-customer learning is federated and IP-isolated and waits on written data agreements. A fully on-prem deployment is available for sensitive producers.
It is designed not to. Validated parameters never change without the sign-off your quality system requires, model changes go through change control, and every action carries model version, data lineage, approval status and qualification impact in the audit log. Powdrix does not claim AS9100 or ISO 13485 certification; assurance packages are planned for the 6 to 12 month release.
You are, as with any process change, which is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, and why anything that affects qualification waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
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Or just send the numbers
Scrapped builds per month, CT hours per build, coupon campaigns, idle machine time. We will tell you which wedge fits.