Machine, Floor and Enterprise. The Machine tier covers in-situ, parameter-control or inspection AI on one printer or inspection cell. Floor covers the whole loop. Enterprise is for multi-site manufacturers and bureaus. Annual prepay carries a 15 to 20% discount and outcome components are available on build failure, yield, qualification and energy.
Floor pricing is protected. Discounts are traded for term length and a published case study.
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.
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.
Multi-site AM manufacturers and bureaus standardising on Powdrix, with custom alloy, polymer and qualification models.
Products are licensed per machine on the Machine tier and bundled on Floor and Enterprise.
| Capability | Machine | Floor | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machines covered | 1 | All on the floor | All in group |
| Agent modules | 1 of 5 products | All agents | All agents + custom models |
| Part twin (Parttwin) | No | Included | Custom alloy and polymer models |
| Printer-edge node | Included | Per machine | Fleet managed |
| Bounded parameter writes | Inside the envelope, scoped tags | All scoped tags | Group policy |
| Build genealogy and evidence packets | Included | Included | Included + export and change control |
| Autonomy levels | L1 to L2 | L1 to L3 | L1 to L4 when validated |
| SSO and RBAC | No | Planned | Planned, with approval chains |
| On-prem deployment | No | Optional | Included |
| Support | Business hours | 24/7 | 24/7 + named engineer |
| Indicative price | $6,000/mo | $70,000/mo | $500k to $7M ACV |
We do not publish savings percentages because we have not measured any yet. These are the inputs a floor brings to the pilot baseline, and the outputs the pilot measures.
A run engine that produces this record on every build, every machine you license, with the genealogy a certification engineer can audit.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aerospace, medical and dental implants, energy and defence, tooling and industrial, and service bureaus, on metal powder-bed fusion, directed energy deposition and polymer SLS, MJF and FDM. Most floors pick one machine and one wedge, prove the number, then expand.
Qualified part families where one failed build or failed qualification is expensive. Meltrix and Poroscan on one metal PBF printer first, with the AS9100 evidence packet attached.
Porosity and surface faults are patient safety. CT grading against acceptance criteria with a named sign-off, genealogy for every implant.
Serial production under qualification and reshoring pressure. Build-failure prediction and fleet scheduling with Yieldex as the floor scales.
Cost per part decides the business. Parttwin to cut coupon campaigns and ramp scrap, Forgebot to reclaim idle machine time.
Many customers, many part families, one floor. Yieldex scheduling across machines, ovens and inspection, with per-customer genealogy.
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.
| Item | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
One policy model, one audit trail, one benchmark across every machine on every floor, with the alloy, polymer and qualification models kept private to each site.
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.
Start with one printer or one inspection cell and one measurable baseline. A paid pilot on melt-pool and build-failure prediction, CT porosity triage or pre-build recipe optimisation shows the number before you commit further.
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