Authentise has positioned itself since 2013 as a software provider for additive manufacturing with a clear focus on process control and traceability. CEO Andre Wegner cites a concrete operational safety gap as the reason for founding the company: an aviation accident where a component failure and slow spare-parts supply coincided.
“We got started because of a plane crash,” Wegner said. “That crash happened because a part broke, and the airline kept the plane flying. It takes a few days to get a spare part into the country. That’s the kind of failure mode we wanted to address. That’s why we were founded.”
“We’re a software company,” Wegner explained. “The software we build manages the process in additive manufacturing. We focus on the stage that turns designs into parts, helping organizations quote, review, schedule, and manage production in a compliant way while capturing all the necessary data.”
The Philadelphia-based company provides a suite that controls the transition from CAD design to the physical part. Users create quotes, validate data, plan build jobs, and document compliance requirements in an end-to-end audit trail. Through direct machine connections, the system captures telemetry in real time, including process parameters from laser, binder, or extrusion processes. A central element is material genealogy: powder lots are tracked through steps such as sieving and blending to assignment to machines and builds, including QR-based tracking.
“That kind of traceability is particularly relevant in these sectors. But the overall platform is super helpful to create efficiencies and capture the knowledge that folks have on the shop floor,” he stated.
“A lot of folks have this problem of tribal knowledge just being lost,” Wegner said. “Knowledge capture has a variety of reasons. It’s about compliance, efficiency, and making sure people can learn from each other.”
In addition to process control, the platform addresses the loss of experiential knowledge on shop floors. Workflows and decision paths are made explicit and stored for reuse.
Authentise is a member of America Makes and participates in working groups on quality and standards. Technically, the company relies on open workflows: APIs and the integration of external algorithms at multiple process steps are intended to enable choice and comparability.
“We decided to join because those who take additive manufacturing seriously are members too,” Wegner said. “We serve them primarily, so it’s a natural place for us to be. It’s a great exchange platform for ideas. Some of us interact on committees and exchange ideas continuously.”
“We’re more open than anybody else. We’re a workflow software company. We integrate third-party algorithms throughout the process, sometimes two or three options for the same step, so that people have a choice,” Wegner noted. “We also started in the space where we had direct connections to the data, and we’ve always made it a priority to capture and use that machine data wisely.”
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