Norwegian additive manufacturing firm AM North is using amsight's quality management software to strengthen traceability, reduce manual documentation effort, and support certified AM production.
The Norwegian company serves industrial spare-part and production applications and has integrated amsight's software in a bid to boost its offering to customers.
AM North was established in 2023 to help industrial customers in northern Norway move from physical spare-part storage toward digital inventory and on-demand additive manufacturing. Based in Hammerfest, with strong roots in the oil and gas supply chain, the company is now expanding its AM capability across wider industrial markets, including fish farming, defence, mining, and national and international supply opportunities.
The decision to adopt amsight was driven by a need to automate the collection and generation of project information. Before amsight, AM North relied on Excel, Word, PDFs, and paper-based production documentation, with information being transferred into digital folders, compiled into PDFs, and prepared for customer delivery manually. AM North estimated this process required around eight hours of documentation work per project.
The company was also motivated to elevate its processes because of the company's quality requirements. Since it manufactures parts for demanding industrial applications and DNV-related certification expectations, traceability, testing, final acceptance, process documentation, and supplier confidence are critical. Its growth plan - which will include new facilities and investment in additional AM and machining capability - was a factor too.
With amsight, the company is said to be able to connect quality-relevant data across planning, build jobs, machine monitoring, post-processing, inspections, and reporting. The system also supports the use of defined acceptance criteria, enabling results to be checked and documented more consistently.
“As we moved further into certified AM production, it became clear that manual documentation could not be our long-term answer,” said Jan-Inge Kongsbak, Managing Director at AM North. “We needed a system that could connect machine data, build information, test results, and process steps in one place. amsight ticked the boxes because it helps us turn production data into structured quality evidence.”
AM North estimates that documentation efforts have reduced to approximately 1.5–2 hours per project, while also making the process easier to manage and more aligned with customer and certification expectations.
“AM North shows exactly why production additive manufacturing needs an AM-specific quality evidence software,” added Tim Wischeropp, CEO at amsight. “When customers, auditors, and regulated industries ask for proof, scattered files and manual reports are not enough. amsight helps manufacturers build a digital quality backbone that connects powder, process, machine, and inspection data at part level.”
“AM still has to prove itself in many industries,” said Kongsbak. “Quality software helps us show that additive manufacturing is not a hobby technology; it is a serious production method when the process is controlled, and the evidence is clear.”
