The Manufacturing Problem Prevention Program (MP3) is a way for the Space Force and its industry partners to generate and distribute information intended to minimize schedule and cost impacts due to unanticipated problems or anomalies. Updates and changes within the materials community that facilitate participation in Air Force space programs are also discussed.
The theme of the meeting changes each year. Recent themes have included Quality Strategies for Additive Manufacturing,with emphasis on in-situ monitoring and final product reliability.
Presentations have been made from such organizations as:
NASA Marshall
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hughes Research Laboratory
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Honeywell
The Aerospace Corporation
Laser Technology/NorCom Systems
Inovati
Sigmalabs
There also table-top exhibits. Companies and organizations that have presented in the past are:
Aligned Vision
Element Materials Technology
Laser Technology/NorCom Systems
Plataine
PMIC
Shimadzu
SME
TA Instruments
TenCate Advanced Composites USA
Thermal Wave Imaging
Toray Composites (America), Inc.
MPS is hosted by The Aerospace Corporation in combination with SAMPE-Los Angeles Chapter.