Design Strategies for the Process of Additive Manufacturing

By Christoph Klahn, B. Leutenecker, Mirko Meboldt. 2015

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Additive manufacturing (AM) is a cyclic manufacturing process to create three-dimensional objects layer-by-layer directly from a 3D CAD model. Today AM processes like SLM and SLS are already suitable for direct part production. The processes have little restrictions regarding the shape of the object. The challenge to a designer is to use the unique characteristics of additive manufacturing in the development process to create an added value for the manufacturer and the user of a product. This paper presents two design strategies to use additive manufacturing’s benefits in product development. A manufacturing driven design strategy allows a substitution of manufacturing processes at a later stage of the product life cycle, while a function driven design strategy increases the performance of a product. The choice of strategy has great impact on the development process and the design of components. Two cases are presented to explain and illustrate these design strategies.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Influence of meso-structure and chemical composition on FDM 3D-printed parts (2017, background): “AM technologies are ready to be used for industrial production and, due to a growing competition between service furnishers, they are becoming economically feasible for a great number of end-user applications [15].”
A new methodological framework for design for additive manufacturing (2016, methodology): “On the component level, Klahn et al. (2014) and Klahn et al. (2015) use four decision criteria to identify parts of a product for an AM-conformal redesign, namely integrated designs, individualisation, lightweight design, and efficient design.”
Plastic anisotropy of additively manufactured maraging steel: Influence of the build orientation and heat treatments (2019, background): “As AM technology matures it is progressively becoming a viable option for the serial production of structure critical engineering components due to technological developments and improved process awareness [32, 33].”