Talk:Selective laser melting

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What is called Selective Laser Melting started at the Fraunhofer Institute ILT in Aachen, Germany, in 1995 with a German reserach project, resulting in the so called basic ILT SLM patent DE 19649865. Already in this pioneering phase Dr. Dieter Schwarze and Dr. Matthias Fockele from company F&S Stereolithographietechnik GmbH (located in Paderborn, Germany) worked together with the ILT researchers Dr. Wilhelm Meiners and Dr. Kurt Wissenbach on the technology. In the early 2000s F&S entered into a commercial partnership with MCP HEK GmbH (later on named MTT Technology GmbH and then SLM Solutions GmbH) located in Luebeck in northern Germany. Today Dr. Dieter Schwarze is with SLM Solutions GmbH and Dr. Matthias Fockele founded Realizer GmbH.Djblacky1 (talk) 20:04, 3 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree, in my experience, SLM and DMLS are pretty much the same thing, as indicated by this chart which lists "DMLS/SLM" as one item. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 19:04, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't why SLM should be merged into DMLS, I really think DMLS should be merged into SLM. Because SLM is the common name, and DMLS is a brand-specific name, like "DMLM" or "PBF". Most works are about SLM… Plus I think this article is really getting EOS-oriented, as "M400" written in "See Also", whereas it's very specific. I know EOS is the main machines vendor, but I don't think this should affect this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.71.237.100 (talk) 09:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Renaming the page
The acronym SLM (for Selective laser melting) is now also a registered trademark for a company SLM solutions (https://slm-solutions.com/about-slm/about-slm/about-us/), which makes selective laser melting machines. To avoid publicizing one particular company by the use of a technology name, it is worthwhile considering using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) which is the ASTM terminology for the process (ASTM ISO/ASTM52900-15 Standard Terminology for Additive Manufacturing – General Principles – Terminology, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1520/ISOASTM52900-15). Top additive manufacturing research groups (like the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) have been talking about the use of LPBF in almost every conference they present, and also in all their publications. Sagar090192 (talk) 04:51, 22 February 2019 (UTC) Sagar Patel