America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced the release of a survey to obtain feedback on use of the Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing. Last published in June 2018, the roadmap is the work product of the America Makes and ANSI Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC), a cross-sector initiative involving hundreds of participants to coordinate and accelerate the development of industry-wide additive manufacturing (AM) standards and specifications. The survey seeks comments on the content and quality of the roadmap to assist the AMSC in future planning.

Over the last year, the AMSC has held a series of virtual events addressing different facets of standardization needs associated with designing, producing, and qualifying AM parts. The group has also issued progress reports tracking activity by standards developing organizations (SDOs) to publish new standards or start new standards projects that are responsive to the needs and recommendations outlined in the roadmap. The AMSC advisory group, comprised of government, SDO, and industry representatives, determined that it would be helpful to do a survey to complement those efforts.