Metal additive manufacturing (AM) generates vast, high-resolution thermal datasets from high-speed infrared pyrometry, often exceeding 60 million data points per build. Existing software lacks the capacity to efficiently process and analyse these datasets, leaving valuable insights—such as predictions of material properties including density and hardness—unexploited and forcing manufacturers to rely on costly, time-consuming ex-situ testing.
PyroVista addresses this challenge through a dedicated software platform for scalable analytics and visualisation of large-scale thermal datasets. Its core innovation is the integration of computational models and algorithms that directly estimate critical material properties from pyrometer data, enabling rapid, non-destructive process monitoring and quality assessment. The platform includes calibrated, AM-specific models and algorithms while also allowing users to integrate custom models tailored to different alloys, machines, or manufacturing processes.
Designed as a flexible, process-agnostic solution, PyroVista can also be applied to other high-temperature manufacturing sectors, including heat treatment, casting, and smelting. With no direct competitors offering comparable high-capacity thermal analytics and property prediction capabilities, PyroVista is well positioned to capitalise on the rapidly growing AM software market, which is forecast to expand from USD 24.2 billion in 2025 to more than USD 481 billion by 2034 (CAGR 39.4%).
Commercialisation will be driven through software licensing to research institutions, AM original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and industrial end-users, with an initial focus on the aerospace and medical device industries, where demand for robust process monitoring and quality assurance is particularly high.
