LRQA is a world-leading digitally enabled assurance provider, offering expertise in certification, cybersecurity, inspection, and training. Our end-to-end solutions, including auditing, certification, and supply chain transformation, help clients navigate a rapidly changing risk landscape.
Since 2016, LRQA has become the first global inspection agency to certify metallic parts printed using additive manufacturing (AM). We have since updated our AM guidance notes and published new guidelines for polymer AM, subsequently becoming the first agency to certify 3D printed components for the oil and gas industry.
Products and Services
Building on our world class research, LRQA can help you operationalise for AM with our complete end-to-end assurance and advisory services, including:
Parts Certification
As the first Inspection Agency to certify 3D printed oil and gas parts and the first to qualify AM facilities in Singapore: we can navigate you through the evolving standards and regulation landscape, giving you and your clients confidence in the parts produced. We assess each stage of the AM process: design, materials, manufacture, postprocessing and inspection to provide independent assurance.
Facility Qualification
LRQA AM Facility Qualification provides a tested framework to achieve certification and assurance. Being aligned with existing international standards on AM, it gives confidence to the supply chain that a facility has the necessary AM-specific controls. Our trained AM auditors and surveyors assess an AM facility in terms of material handling & storage, AM process & build control, personnel competency, health & safety, post-processing and inspection, corrective & preventative actions, and control of nonconforming items. The LRQA AM Facility Qualification is a globally recognized qualification and provides a path to materials and parts certification.
Advisory
Our AM team currently advises Governments, Oil Majors and Manufacturers on everything AM. Carefully managed to ensure impartiality from our certification services, we can answer your business’s AM questions, from regulation research, supply chain assessments, business case development, engineering assessments and more.
In response to the rising demand from the supply chain for quality assurance of AM produced materials and parts, we have also developed the unique advisory service to help additive manufacturers accelerate the process of implementing processes that comply with international standards and best practices. Through the development of procedures, work instructions and record template on behalf of the manufacturer, facilities will be ready to demonstration compliance and achieving certification.
Training
LRQA’s industry leading AM Certification and Assurance training courses can help get you up to speed and move beyond R&D into operations. We offer a modular training courses that can be customized depending on your level of AM readiness:
1-day course – suitable for managers with minimal AM experience who are considering adopting AM.
2-day course – suitable for those with some existing knowledge who are responsible for sourcing AM parts and need an understanding of the capability, variability, risks and opportunities of using AM. This course is also suitable for existing AM service providers who need further understanding of facility qualification and material & part certification requirements.
3-day course – suitable for those responsible for material & part certification who need support in the qualification of their own AM facility, and satisfying the certification requirements for AM materials & parts.
