Design for Additive Manufacturing – Supporting the Substitution of Components in Series Products

By Christoph Klahn, B. Leutenecker, Mirko Meboldt. 2014

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Abstract The Additive Manufacturing technologies Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Selective Laser Melting (SLM) are capable to produce thermoplastic or metal parts, which are fit for end-user products. Both technologies create three-dimensional objects directly from a 3D CAD model with little restrictions regarding the shape of the object. This geometrical freedom in design can be utilized to largely improve the functionality of series products by substituting conventional parts with additive manufactured ones. Four criteria are presented here to identify components of a product for a re-design. A successful re-design has to meet the needs of the producer and his customers. The selection criteria and success factors for a re-design are demonstrated in four cases.

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

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In Automotive Engineering

1. Martin Kumke
2. Thomas Vietor
3. H. Watschke
4. Mirko Meboldt
5. Christoph Klahn
6. B. Leutenecker

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. Martin Kumke
2. Thomas Vietor
3. H. Watschke
4. Mirko Meboldt
5. Christoph Klahn
6. B. Leutenecker

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Martin Kumke
2. Thomas Vietor
3. H. Watschke
4. Mirko Meboldt
5. Christoph Klahn
6. B. Leutenecker

Citations in the corpus

• Tensile properties and failure behavior of chopped and continuous carbon fiber composites produced by additive manufacturing (2019, background): “[22] presented some cases for SLS and SLM that showed how the re-design of the part geometry for AM contributed to the success of the product, improving its technological and economic viability.”
• 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. Lindemann et al. (2015) propose a methodology for a sele”
• Design Strategies for the Process of Additive Manufacturing (2015, methodology): “They presented in Leutenecker et al. (2013) and Klahn et al. (2014) a guiding principle for the identification of suitable parts and assemblies in an existing design, as well as during the development of a product from scratch [13, 14].”