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Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing Workshops

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NIST Additive Manufacturing (AM) hosts and participates in various workshops and events. Explore below for information about past and upcoming AM workshops. For the most up-to-date information, navigate to the "NIST Events" website. Feel free to contact us with questions or inquiries.

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Join the NIST AM team at a workshop.
Credit: Adobe Stock

Workshops and Events

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AM Bench 2025 

  • November 16-20, 2025 (Memphis, TN)
  • Held in conjunction with ASME’s IMECE conference (Track 02)
  • Abstract submission through the IMECE 2025 website
  • Abstract deadlines
    • March 4, 2025 (with intended IMECE paper submission)
    • June 15, 2025 (presentation only)

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Informational Q&A Webinars for AM Bench 2025 Challenge Problems 

More information coming soon.

  • March 13-14, 2025 
Close up view of the periodic table, focusing on Gallium (Ga) and Germanium (Ge). A semiconductor lies on the periodic table, indicating that Ga and Ge are critical minerals for semiconductor production.
Critical minerals and materials, such as gallium (Ga) and germanium (Ge), pictured above, pose challenges to sustainable metals processing. 
Credit: Adobe Stock

AM Metals

Material Challenges in Developing a Sustainable Metal Processing Infrastructure

This workshop aimed to foster collaboration and innovation in critical areas such as the development and integration of novel processing methods and simulation tools to support sustainable metals processing. As a part of fostering these collaborations, this workshop hoped to identify critical materials challenges in the following topic areas: sustainable extractive metallurgy, innovative metal manufacturing technologies, and lifecycle assessment and recycling innovations. 

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) logo
Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) logo.
Credit: RadTech International

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA)

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) 2023 Workshop - Building a Unified Vision from Research to Regulation

RadTech and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the second in-person photopolymer additive manufacturing workshop in Boulder, CO from September 18-19, 2023. The event was designed to enable candid, pre-competitive conversation regarding the state of the field of vat photopolymerization through a series of panel discussions and develop updated, comprehensive roadmaps for current and future directions. Speakers from NIST included Lyle Levine, Russel Maier, Thomas Kolibaba, Callie Higgins, Jason Killgore, and Dianne Poster. 

Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM Bench) 2022 logo
AM Bench 2022 logo.
Credit: NIST

AM Bench Conferences

Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks Conferences and Meetings

Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks (AM Bench) provide a continuing series of controlled benchmark measurements, in conjunction with a conference series, with the primary goal of enabling modelers to test their simulations against rigorous, highly controlled additive manufacturing benchmark test data. All AM Bench data are permanently archived for public use. The AM Bench conference series provides a venue for sharing the results of these tests and convening modelers and experimentalists to discuss successes and challenges. AM Bench held conferences in 2018 and 2022; future conferences are planned. 

An additively manufactured ceramic Radio Frequency (RF) device. Close up view shows the 3D printed ceramic surface was printed in a gridded pattern.
Ceramic additive manufacturing can build complex structures, like this Radio Frequency (RF) device pictured above. Image from Materials Research & Measurement Needs for Ceramics Additive Manufacturing.
Credit: Courtesy Mark Mirotznik, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Ceramics

Materials Research & Measurement Needs for Ceramics Additive Manufacturing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) organized a workshop on materials research and measurement needs in ceramic additive manufacturing (AM). The meeting brought together leading experts from early industrial adopters of ceramics AM, AM-equipment and feedstock manufacturers, government agencies, and academia. The goals were to discuss the most promising broad-impact applications of ceramics AM and identify the associated materials measurement needs which could accelerate the incorporation of AM methods into commercially viable ceramic manufacturing technologies. The workshop critically reviewed opportunities and challenges for ceramics AM in key market sectors with discussions focused on bridging critical knowledge gaps that hinder the broader deployment of ceramics AM technologies.

Two miniature tugboat replicas sit in front of a metal ruler.
3D printed "Benchy the Boat" made from vat photopolymerized polyelectrolyte complexes.
Credit: T. Kolibaba/NIST

Photopolymers

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) Workshop: Roadmapping a Future for Stereolithography, Inkjet, and Beyond 

The Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) Workshop, held October 29-30, 2019 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado, was organized to identify common problems and solutions specific to photopolymers, ultraviolet curing, manufacturing processes, and performance of materials in PAM commercial products. The workshop’s technical focus was on the design, synthesis, and production of PAM printed products, particularly with respect to setting standards and establishing measurement science needs.

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Bioscience, Biomanufacturing, Biomaterials, Cell measurements, Engineering / synthetic biology, Manufacturing, Additive manufacturing, Materials, Ceramics, Materials characterization, Composition and structure, Mechanical properties, Thermal properties, Metals, Polymers, Metrology, Standards and Reference materials

Contacts

Additive Manufacturing Program Coordinators

Created July 25, 2024, Updated April 16, 2025