Abstract: A method for powder-bed-based additive manufacturing of a component, includes setting irradiation vectors for a layer to be irradiated for the component, wherein, irradiation vectors are irradiated below a length of 1 mm in a pulsed irradiation operation; and a pulse frequency below 3 kHz and a scan speed below 250 mm/a are selected. A correspondingly manufactured component is produced.

Abstract: A method for providing CAM manufacturing instructions for the powder-bed-based additive manufacturing of a component wherein a geometry of the component, with a solid material region, a transition region, and a porous component region, is defined on the basis of CAD data. Irradiation parameters for the manufacturing of the component, including an irradiation power, a scanning speed, a scanning pitch, and a layer thickness, are varied within the transition region in such a way as to form a porosity gradient of the structure of the component between the solid material region of the component and the porous component region.

Abstract: A method of applying a plurality of energy beams in the additive manufacture of a component includes a) providing a first and a second energy beam, each set up for the irradiation of a layer of a powder bed, wherein the first beam scans over a first irradiation area and the second beam scans over a second irradiation area, wherein the first and second irradiation areas are substantially arranged adjacent to each other and form part of a manufacturing plane, and b) assigning a scan vector to be scanned in the first irradiation area by the second energy beam, when a melt pool generated by the second energy beam during the scan of the vector is expected to cause less overlap with a powder bed outside of the component's geometry than a melt pool generated by the first energy beam would cause during the scan of the vector.

Abstract: A method for selectively irradiating a powder layer in additive manufacturing of a component. The method including: determining an irradiation pattern of the layer for additive manufacturing, wherein a first partial pattern is defined which is intended for continuous irradiation and comprises a plurality of irradiation vectors and wherein a second partial pattern is defined, which is intended for a pulsed irradiation, with the first and the second partial pattern being selected in such a manner that the second partial pattern connects irradiation vectors of the first partial pattern, and irradiating the layer in accordance with the irradiation patterns defined. A computer program product, an irradiating device, and a control unit for controlling an irradiating device are included.

Abstract: A method of detecting malfunction in an additive powder-bed-fusion manufacturing process includes a) monitoring the additive manufacturing process and recording an acoustic incident when the incident is outside of a given tolerance range, wherein the incident is indicative for the malfunction, b) classifying the incident, and c) defining of a measure to counteract the malfunction. A corresponding method of additive manufacturing, a corresponding apparatus as well as an additive manufacturing device detect malfunctions.