#3DStartup: Addiguru and its real-time monitoring software for 3D printing

In the additive manufacturing market, the user is not immune to potential manufacturing defects, not only wasting time and money, but also sacrificing quality. In order to limit these defects as much as possible as well as automate the production process, the startup Addiguru has developed a software solution to monitor the manufacturing process in real time. For the moment reserved for Laser Powder Bed Fusion, this solution is expected to be extended to other 3D printing methods such as FDM or DED. We met with Shuchi Khurana, Addiguru’s CEO, to learn more about the software, its functionalities but also about the startup’s future projects.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your relationship to 3D printing?

Shuchi Khurana

I have a Masters in Materials Engineering and my technical expertise in predictive analysis of welding and joining processes, which are the underlying processes for 3D-Printing. I have used 3D-Printing for prototype parts for the medical device that we created for my previous start-up company and it was very valuable for us to quickly create prototypes using 3D Printing. For last 12 years, I have developed and launched many products. Recently, one of them was a predictive maintenance software for a large global manufacturing company.

3DN: How did the idea to create ADDIGURU come up? Can you tell us how your monitoring technology works?

Additive Manufacturing is a layer by layer process and each layer provides us with an end point to observe and determine quality. I have a lot of experience with predictive analysis for manufacturing processes and I realized that most people are trying to detect the quality by continuous monitoring and the focus was on the melt pool. Melt pool is difficult to monitor due to the very fast movement of laser and the huge amount of data generated. Layer by layer monitoring is more practical and affordable for the industry. I saw the opportunity to help the industry with my past experience of predictive analysis and launching products. So I decided to start Addiguru in September 2019. As you can tell in the name – ‘Addi’ comes from Additive Manufacturing and ‘guru’ comes from the fact that we are creating an intelligent software that will guide 3D printing processes like a Guru does.