Tools for Sustainable Product Design: Additive Manufacturing

By O. Diegel, S. Singamneni, S. Reay, A. Withell. 2010

162 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The advent of additive manufacturing technologies presents a number of opportunities that have the potential to greatly benefit designers, and contribute to the sustainability of products. Additive manufacturing technologies have removed many of the manufacturing restrictions that may previously have compromised a designer’s ability to make the product they imagined, which can increase product desirability, pleasure and attachment. Products can also be extensively customized to the user thus, once again, potentially increasing their desirability, pleasure and attachment and therefore their longevity. As additive manufacturing technologies evolve, and more new materials become available, and multiple material technologies are further developed, the field of product design has the potential to greatly change. This paper examines aspects of additive manufacturing from a sustainable design perspective could become a useful tool in the arsenal to bring about the sustainable design of consumer products.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Building and Construction, Museology

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Citations in the corpus

• An identification method for enclosed voids restriction in manufacturability design for additive manufacturing structures (2015, background): “Examples of such manufacturing constraints are system capability, material compatibility, processing time, surface finish, machine and material costs, enclosed voids, and so on [34].”
• Metallic additive manufacturing: state-of-the-art review and prospects (2012, background): “Moreover the ability to manufacture less massive parts and/or closer to the designer’s wishes is very interesting for ecodesigners [17].”
• The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering (2015, unknown): “[331] suggest that AM’s ability to customize a product according to a user needs, has the potential to influence the desirability and therefore the longevity of a product.”
• The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review (2019, background): “Sustai able design is defined as “ esign which strives to fabricate products that diminish their impact on the environment” while it achieves acceptable economic profits and a positive effect on society at the same time [118,128].”