Germany's DMG MORI has announced that it is acquiring a 30 per cent stake in the Indian company, Intech - a developer of software for additive manufacturing (AM), machine learning and artificial intelligence. INTECH is considered a pioneer in metal 3D printing in India. The firm already supplies software solutions for DMG MORI's Lasertec SLM (selective laser melting) machines and also for other products as well as customers using the powder bed technology. Its new Optomet software, for example, automatically calculates optimal process parameters, simplifying programming and resulting in markedly improved surface quality as well as reproducible component properties. Sridhar Balaram, CEO of Intech, said: “Leveraging synergies is key and our collaboration with DMG MORI is a perfect fit of hardware and software. “Optomet can also be applied to other key technologies within additive manufacturing, such as directed energy deposition and binder jetting. We believe this software is a game-changer for the whole of the additive manufacturing market.”