Standards on Additive Manufacturing

ISO, CEN, ASTM standards for additive manufacturing: ISO/ASTM 52901, ISO/ASTM 52902, ISO/ASTM 52903, ISO 17296, EN ISO/ASTM 52942, CEN/TC 438 - Additive Manufacturing, ISO/TC 261 - Additive manufacturing


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Related standards or drafts

Additive manufacturing of metals - Non-destructive testing and evaluation - Defect detection in parts (ISO/ASTM TR 52905:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Non-destructive testing - Intentionally seeding flaws in metallic parts (ISO/ASTM/TR 52906:2022)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Design - Functionally graded additive manufacturing (ISO/ASTM/TR 52912:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing for medical - Data - Optimized medical image data (ISO/ASTM TR 52916:2022)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Round robin testing - General guidelines (ISO/ASTM TR 52917:2022)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing of metals - Feedstock materials - Correlating of rotating drum measurement with powder spreadability in PBF-LB machines (ISO/ASTM TR 52952:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing - Qualification principles - Installation, operation and performance (IQ/OQ/PQ) of PBF-LB equipment (ISO/ASTM/TS 52930:2021)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Part positioning, coordinates and orientation (ISO 17295:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Part 2: Overview of process categories and feedstock (ISO 17296-2:2015)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Fundamentals and vocabulary (ISO/ASTM 52900:2021)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Requirements for purchased AM parts (ISO/ASTM 52901:2017)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Test artefacts - Geometric capability assessment of additive manufacturing systems (ISO/ASTM 52902:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Material extrusion-based additive manufacturing of plastic materials - Part 1: Feedstock materials (ISO/ASTM 52903-1:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Material extrusion based additive manufacturing of plastic materials - Part 2: Process equipment (ISO/ASTM 52903-2:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Process characteristics and performance - Practice for metal powder bed fusion process to meet critical applications (ISO/ASTM 52904:2019)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Feedstock materials - Methods to characterize metal powders (ISO/ASTM 52907:2019)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Finished Part properties - Post-processing, inspection and testing of parts produced by powder bed fusion (ISO/ASTM 52908:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Finished part properties - Orientation and location dependence of mechanical properties for metal parts (ISO/ASTM 52909:2024)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Design - Requirements, guidelines and recommendations (ISO/ASTM 52910:2018)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Design - Part 1: Laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (ISO/ASTM 52911-1:2019)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Design - Part 2: Laser-based powder bed fusion of polymers (ISO/ASTM 52911-2:2019)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing - Design - Part 3: PBF-EB of metallic materials (ISO/ASTM 52911-3:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Specification for additive manufacturing file format (AMF) Version 1.2 (ISO/ASTM 52915:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Qualification principles - Requirements for industrial additive manufacturing processes and production sites (ISO/ASTM 52920:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of polymers - Qualification principles - Classification of part properties (ISO/ASTM 52924:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of polymers - Feedstock materials - Qualification of materials for laser-based powder bed fusion of parts (ISO/ASTM 52925:2022)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Part 1: General qualification of operators (ISO/ASTM 52926-1:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Part 2: Qualification of operators for PBF-LB (ISO/ASTM 52926-2:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Part 3: Qualification of operators for PBF-EB (ISO/ASTM 52926-3:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Part 4: Qualification of operators for DED-LB (ISO/ASTM 52926-4:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Part 5: Qualification of operators for DED-Arc (ISO/ASTM 52926-5:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Main characteristics and corresponding test methods (ISO/ASTM 52927:2024)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Environment, health and safety - General principles for use of metallic materials (ISO/ASTM 52931:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Environment, health and safety - Test method for the hazardous substances emitted from material extrusion type 3D printers in the non-industrial places (ISO/ASTM 52933:2024)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of metals - Qualification principles - Qualification of coordination personnel (ISO/ASTM 52935:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing of polymers - Qualification principles - Part 1: General principles and preparation of test specimens for PBF-LB (ISO/ASTM 52936-1:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive Manufacturing for construction - Qualification principles - Structural and infrastructure elements (ISO/ASTM 52939:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - System performance and reliability - Acceptance tests for laser metal powder-bed fusion machines for metallic materials for aerospace application (ISO/ASTM 52941:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - Qualification principles - Qualifying machine operators of laser metal powder bed fusion machines and equipment used in aerospace applications (ISO/ASTM 52942:2020)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing for aerospace - Process characteristics and performance - Part 2: Directed energy deposition using wire and arc (ISO/ASTM 52943-2:2024)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing for automotive - Qualification principles - Generic machine evaluation and specification of key performance indicators for PBF-LB/M processes (ISO/ASTM 52945:2023)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Additive manufacturing - General principles - Overview of data processing (ISO/ASTM 52950:2021)

60.60 Standard published

CEN/TC 438

Industrial automation systems and integration — Physical device control — Data model for computerized numerical controllers — Part 17: Process data for additive manufacturing

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 184/SC 1

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Part positioning, coordinates and orientation

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Part 2: Overview of process categories and feedstock

90.93 Standard confirmed

ISO/TC 261

Corrosion of metals and alloys — Measurement of the electrochemical critical localized corrosion temperature (E-CLCT) for Ti alloys fabricated via the additive manufacturing method

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 156

General requirements for cyber-physically controlled smart machine tool systems (CPSMT) — Part 3: Reference architecture of CPSMT for additive manufacturing

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 184/SC 1

Corrosion of metals and alloys — Measurement of the electrochemical critical localized corrosion potential (E-CLCP) for Ti alloys fabricated via additive manufacturing method in simulated biomedical solutions

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 156

Specifications for use of poly(lactic acid) based filament in additive manufacturing applications

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 61/SC 14

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Fundamentals and vocabulary

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Requirements for purchased AM parts

90.93 Standard confirmed

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Test artefacts — Geometric capability assessment of additive manufacturing systems

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Material extrusion-based additive manufacturing of plastic materials — Part 1: Feedstock materials

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Material extrusion-based additive manufacturing of plastic materials — Part 2: Process equipment

90.93 Standard confirmed

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Process characteristics and performance — Practice for metal powder bed fusion process to meet critical applications

90.92 Standard to be revised

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Feedstock materials — Methods to characterize metal powders

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Finished part properties — Post-processing, inspection and testing of parts produced by powder bed fusion

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Finished part properties — Orientation and location dependence of mechanical properties for metal parts

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Design — Requirements, guidelines and recommendations

90.92 Standard to be revised

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Design — Part 1: Laser-based powder bed fusion of metals

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Design — Part 2: Laser-based powder bed fusion of polymers

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Design — Part 3: PBF-EB of metallic materials

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Specification for additive manufacturing file format (AMF) Version 1.2

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Qualification principles — Requirements for industrial additive manufacturing processes and production sites

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of polymers — Qualification principles — Classification of part properties

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of polymers — Feedstock materials — Qualification of materials for laser-based powder bed fusion of parts

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 1: General qualification of operators

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 2: Qualification of operators for PBF-LB

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 3: Qualification of operators for PBF-EB

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 4: Qualification of operators for DED-LB

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 5: Qualification of operators for DED-Arc

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Main characteristics and corresponding test methods

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Environment, health and safety — General principles for use of metallic materials

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Environment, health and safety — Test method for the hazardous substances emitted from material extrusion type 3D printers in the non-industrial places

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Qualification of coordination personnel

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of polymers — Qualification principles — Part 1: General principles and preparation of test specimens for PBF-LB

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing for construction — Qualification principles — Structural and infrastructure elements

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — System performance and reliability — Acceptance tests for laser metal powder-bed fusion machines for metallic materials for aerospace application

90.92 Standard to be revised

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Qualification principles — Qualifying machine operators of laser metal powder bed fusion machines and equipment used in aerospace applications

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing for aerospace — Process characteristics and performance — Part 2: Directed energy deposition using wire and arc

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing for automotive — Qualification principles — Generic machine evaluation and specification of key performance indicators for PBF-LB/M processes

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — General principles — Overview of data processing

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Non-destructive testing and evaluation — Defect detection in parts

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Non-destructive testing — Intentionally seeding flaws in metallic parts

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Design — Functionally graded additive manufacturing

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing for medical — Data — Optimized medical image data

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Round robin testing — General guidelines

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing of metals — Feedstock materials — Correlating of rotating drum measurement with powder spreadability in PBF-LB machines

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Additive manufacturing — Qualification principles — Installation, operation and performance (IQ/OQ/PQ) of PBF-LB equipment

60.60 Standard published

ISO/TC 261

Information technology — 3D printing and scanning — Framework for an Additive Manufacturing Service Platform (AMSP)

60.60 Standard published

ISO/IEC JTC 1

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange — Part 1835: Application module: Additive manufacturing part and build information

90.93 Standard confirmed

ISO/TC 184/SC 4



International and European standards for Additive Manufacturing cover processes of Additive Manufacturing, their process chains (Data, Materials, Processes, Hardware and Software, applications), test procedures, quality parameters, supply agreements, fundamentals and vocabularies.
Additive Manufacturing is a market in clear expansion both in Europe and internationally.
The generation of parts by adding materials layer-by-layer allows for a geometric design that is not possible using other manufacturing techniques.
Sectors such as automotive, aerospace are already benefitting from Additive Manufacturing. But other traditional sectors, such as medical devices and implants, energy, construction are also increasingly using this technique.