amsight has announced that AM North, a Norwegian additive manufacturing company serving industrial spare-part and production applications, is using amsight’s production-level quality management software to strengthen traceability, reduce manual documentation effort, and support certified AM production.
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 clear production problem, quality evidence was becoming too manual to scale. Before implementing amsight, AM North relied on Excel, Word, PDFs, and paper-based production documentation. Project information was filled out manually, transferred into digital folders, compiled into PDFs, and prepared for customer delivery. AM North estimated this process required around eight hours of documentation work per project.
“As we moved further into certified AM production, it became clear that manual documentation could not be our long-term answer,” says 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’s quality requirements are closely linked to demanding industrial applications and DNV-related certification expectations, where traceability, testing, final acceptance, process documentation, and supplier confidence are critical. By using amsight, AM North can 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.
“Today, we no longer need to expect eight hours of documentation work per project,” adds Kongsbak. “The work is now captured step by step through the process, and the final reporting is much faster. For us, the value is not only saving time. It is being able to show customers that quality, traceability, and transparency are built into how we work.”
AM North estimates that documentation effort has 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.
For amsight, the collaboration underlines a wider market need. AM companies are no longer judged only on whether they can produce parts, but on whether they can prove quality across the full process chain.
“AM North shows exactly why production additive manufacturing needs an AM-specific quality evidence software,” says 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.”
As AM North prepares for future growth, including new facilities and investment in additional AM and machining capability, digital quality management is expected to play an increasingly central role.
Kongsbak concludes, “AM still has to prove itself in many industries. 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.”
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