Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) Is an additive manufacturing technique that uses a laser as the power source to sinter powdered material (typically metal), aiming the laser automatically at points in space defined by a 3D model, binding the material together to create a solid structure. .ss. Metal powder (20μm diameter) without binder is completely melted by scanning of a high power laser beam. The density of a produced part is about 98 %. SLS has about 70 %. One advantage of DMLS compared to SLS is the small size of particles which enables very detailed parts. Working principle: Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is an AM process by which digital 3Ddesign data is used to build up a component in layers by depositing metal material. The system starts by applying a thin layer of the powder material to the building platform After each layer, a laser beam then fuses the powder at exactly the points defined by the computer-generated data, using a laser scanning optic . The platform is then lowered and another layer of powder is applied . Once again the material is fused so as to bond with the layer below at the predefined points resulting in a complex part. Thereby not only the part but also the final material is created in the process and defines the unique characteristics of this technology. Every single welding line creates a new micro segment of the final part and can therefore be monitored. Stacking all monitoring information on top of each other, we can visualize a 3D model of the part quality.