Rationale

An international material standard is one of the biggest steps to industrialize a production technology and introduce it completely to all industries. For conventional technologies like forging and casting there are a lot of different standards available in different regions or countries like EN-standards for Europe or JIS standards for Japan. With this standard we will get the first international material standard, valid for all regions around the world. It is needed to define the mechanical and physical values for stainless steel produced by powder bed fusion technologies and to widely enhance the usability in the industry.