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Process Innovation in Digital Manufacturing
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Process Innovation in Digital Manufacturing

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2018) | Viewed by 15748

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Keng Hsu

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Interests: advanced manufacturing at multiple scales in both top-down (subtractive) and bottom-up (additive) approach; scalable nanomanufacturing process development; metal/semiconductor/metal-semicon hybrid nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage; additive manufacturing process development; engineered anisotropic materials by additive processes; meso-structure materials; metamaterials; plasmonics; solid-state electrochemistry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Digital manufacturing strings the aspects of design, communication in manufacturing environments, material processing, machine and process control, and evaluation and characterization together in a digital thread, and promises the reshaping of the manufacturing landscape in the foreseeable future. At the core of digital manufacturing lies what is essential to the very idea of digital manufacturing, and to any manufacturing technologies: Materials processing. It is through innovations in materials processing, digital manufacturing-and manufacturing as a whole-can see true advancements. In this Special Issue on “Process Innovation in Digital Manufacturing”, recent original research and development works in advancing materials processing and understanding material-process interaction in the context of manufacturing are assembled to provide researchers, engineers, and educators a view of recent progress in advancing the field of digital manufacturing, and in manufacturing as a whole.

Prof. Dr. Keng Hsu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Additive manufacturing process monitoring;

  • Additive manufacturing closed-loop control;

  • Additive manufacturing process modeling;

  • Multi-axis additive manufacturing;

  • Multi-material additive manufacturing;

  • Multi-process additive manufacturing;

  • Hybrid additive-subtractive process integration;

  • Novel additive manufacturing processes;

  • Additive manufacturing process scale up;

  • Parallel additive manufacturing processes.

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The Setup Design for Selective Laser Sintering of High-Temperature Polymer Materials with the Alignment Control System of Layer Deposition
by Alexey Nazarov, Innokentiy Skornyakov and Igor Shishkovsky
Machines 2018, 6(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines6010011 - 5 Mar 2018
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This paper presents the design of an additive setup for the selective laser sintering (SLS) of high-temperature polymeric materials, which is distinguished by an original control system for aligning the device for depositing layers of polyether ether ketone (PEEK) powder. The kinematic and [...] Read more.
This paper presents the design of an additive setup for the selective laser sintering (SLS) of high-temperature polymeric materials, which is distinguished by an original control system for aligning the device for depositing layers of polyether ether ketone (PEEK) powder. The kinematic and laser-optical schemes are given. The main cooling circuits are described. The proposed technical and design solutions enable conducting the SLS process in different types of high-temperature polymer powders. The principles of the device adjustment for depositing powder layers based on an integral thermal analysis are disclosed. The PEEK sinterability was shown on the designed installation. The physic-mechanical properties of the tested 3D parts were evaluated in comparison with the known data and showed an acceptable quality. Full article
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Mechatronic Design for an Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing Machine
by Hermes Giberti, Luca Sbaglia and Marco Silvestri
Machines 2017, 5(4), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines5040029 - 29 Nov 2017
Cited by 31 | Viewed by 7195
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3D printers, especially in the implementation of innovative extrusion processes which do not have a long history of development, are often built by adapting mechanical designs, drives and controls previously developed for generic machine tools. This is done through a process of choice [...] Read more.
3D printers, especially in the implementation of innovative extrusion processes which do not have a long history of development, are often built by adapting mechanical designs, drives and controls previously developed for generic machine tools. This is done through a process of choice and integration which is based principally on empirical criteria and taking into account separately the different aspects and parameters. Hereafter, we present an integrated mechatronic approach which has been adopted to design from the scratch a machine to implement the innovative metal injection moulding (MIM) technology. Its extrusion rate involves the adaptation of the generated trajectories and consequently requires “ad hoc” designs, drives and numerical controls (NC) to enable non standard acceleration (and hence torque) setpoint curves. Overall, the project resulted in an acceptable workspace volume (depending on the number of degrees of freedom of the platform) and allows one to combine the extruder flow rate, the given accuracy and the required working speed (1 m/s). The system is currently used as a test bench for exploring and optimizing the parameter space of a new MIM process. Full article
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