The institute has unique facilities and all the equipment capable of the microstructure and mechanical characterisation of materials. With this equipment and IMT experts’ knowledge of additive manufacturing, the typical microstructure constituents can be analysed as cracks, porosity, nano oxides, phases, melt-pools, cellular structure, dislocation density, grain boundary characteristics, textures and other microstructure details. IMT has developed a state-of-the-art ECCI technique which allows observation of crystal structure defects as dislocations and others in SEM on a larger scale which is of high importance for additive manufactured microstructures. Additionally, EBSD allows grain analyses and the study of boundaries and phases with local phase analyses. Understanding and controlling the microstructure and mechanical properties represent a complementary function of IMT, and thus the InShape partners will receive important feedback for carrying out the assigned work more efficiently at reduced risk.