The presented manuscript deals with the impact of manufacturing flexibility on cost-time investment as a function of sustainable production, which addresses the company’s sustainable social and environmental impact adequately. The impact of man...
Additive manufacturing is a potentially disruptive technology with a high impact on supply chains and part design. While generally allowing much higher degrees of freedom in design than formative and subtractive manufacturing techniques, the necessit...
Hybrid manufacturing machine tools have great potential to revolutionize manufacturing by combining both additive manufacturing (AM) and subtractive manufacturing (SM) processes on the same machine tool. A prominent issue that can occur when going fr...
This article aims to review a redesign approach of a student racing car’s clutch lever component, which was topologically optimized and manufactured by Additive Manufacturing (AM). Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis was conducted before and a...
Additive Manufacturing (AM) brought a revolution in parts design and production. It enables the possibility to obtain objects with complex geometries and to exploit structural optimization algorithms. Nevertheless, AM is far from being a mature techn...
The weight optimization of a structure can be conducted by using fewer and downsized components, applying lighter materials in production, and removing unwanted material. Topology optimization (TO) is one of the most implemented material removal proc...
With the increasing attention paid to sustainable development around the world, improving energy efficiency and applying effective means of energy saving have gradually received worldwide attention. As the largest energy consumers, manufacturing indu...
Three case studies utilizing topology optimization and Additive Manufacturing for the development of space flight hardware are described. The Additive Manufacturing (AM) modality that was used in this work is powder bed laser based fusion. The case s...
Multi-objective optimization has become an indispensable tool for solving engineering design and manufacturing problems involving multiple conflicting objectives. This paper presents a novel parameter-less multi-objective optimization (MOO) framework...
In the last few decades, complex light-weight designs have been successfully produced via additive manufacturing (AM), launching a new era in the thinking–design process. In addition, current software platforms provide design tools combined with mult...
The rapid growth of the machining market and advancements in additive manufacturing (AM) present new opportunities for innovative tool designs. This preliminary study proposes a design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) approach to redesign a milling...
Additive manufacturing has many advantages over traditional manufacturing methods and has been increasingly used in medical, aerospace, and automotive applications. The flexibility of additive manufacturing technologies to fabricate complex geometrie...
Additive manufacturing allows the creation of geometries otherwise impossible to achieve through traditional technologies in mechanical components. These geometries can be obtained using algorithms to optimize the mass distribution. Topology Optimiza...
Sinter-based additive manufacturing (SBAM) processes, such as Cold Metal Fusion (CMF), combine the geometric freedom of additive manufacturing with the scalability of powder metallurgy, but part distortion and collapse during debinding and sintering...
Highly flexible manufacturing systems require continuous run-time (self-) optimization of processes with respect to diverse parameters, e.g., efficiency, availability, energy consumption etc. A promising approach for achieving (self-) optimization in...
Due to the insufficient durability (wear resistance) of guides made of 50SiCr4 steel tempered to a hardness of 400 HB, 14 variants of the yarn guide manufacturing process were developed. The ring spinner yarn guides were manufactured from three types...
Current market requirements force manufacturing companies to face production changes more often than ever before. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are considered a key enabler in today’s manufacturing industry to cope with such dynami...
Aiming at the problem of the low collaborative efficiency of outsourced processing of wallboard parts of a coating machine under a network collaborative manufacturing mode, this paper proposes a wallboard manufacturing resource composition optimizati...
In the evolving landscape of manufacturing, the integration of intelligent control theory stands as a pivotal advancement, driving both process optimization and the paradigm of smart manufacturing. This review delves into the multifaceted application...
The manufacturing industry is the pillar industry of China’s economy and a major carbon emitter, and its carbon emission reduction efforts directly determine whether the country’s carbon emission reduction target can be successfully met....
Aiming at the problems of a low material utilization rate and uneven stress distribution of cast-steel support joints in cable dome structures, topology optimization and additive manufacturing methods are used for optimization design and integrated m...
In this paper, we investigate a simulation-based optimization framework that implements discrete-event simulation with evolutionary search methods to optimize stochastic manufacturing systems efficiently. The proposed methodology couples a Tecnomatix...
To enable highly automated manufacturing and net-zero carbon emissions, manufacturers have invested heavily in smart manufacturing. Sustainable and smart manufacturing involves improving the efficiency and environmental sustainability of various manu...
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a cornerstone of smart manufacturing, enabling the early detection of equipment degradation and reducing unplanned downtimes. This study proposes an advanced machine learning framework that integrates the Extreme Learn...
Cloud manufacturing is an emerging service-oriented paradigm that works by taking advantage of distributed manufacturing resources and capabilities to collaboratively perform a manufacturing task, with the consideration of QoS (Quality of Service) re...
Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing has opened up new opportunities for researchers in the field of electrical machines, as it allows for more flexibility in design and faster prototyping, which can lead to more efficient and cost-effective pr...
To analyze the impact of different objective functions and additive manufacturing (AM) constraints on structural topology optimization, it is necessary to perform an in-depth comparative study. This analysis should consider specific structural design...
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Additive manufacturing offers new perspectives for creating complex geometries with improved design features at lower cost and with reduced manufacturing time. It may even become possible to print a micro-turbojet engine in one single print, but then...
In the context of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, production factories are increasingly focusing on process optimization, high product customization, quality improvement, cost reduction, and energy saving by implementing a new type of digital s...
This paper presents a new method of process parameter optimization, adequate for 3D printing of PLA (Polylactic Acid) components. The authors developed a new piece of Hybrid Manufacturing Equipment (HME), suitable for producing complex parts made fro...
Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) has attracted lots of attention from scholars and practitioners. The purpose of quality of service (QoS)-aware manufacturing cloud service composition (MCSC), as one of the key issues in CMfg, is to combine different availa...
Hybrid manufacturing combines manufacturing processes (typically additive manufacturing and machining) exploiting the benefits of each and enabling repair scenarios. Such an approach can be integrated with a robot, and if made portable, can form a fl...
In this paper, considering the porosity defects of Additive Manufacturing (AM), a level set topology optimization method for AM with porosity constraints is proposed. The concept of topological sensitivity is used to formulate a global porosity const...
Because of the increasing concern regarding environmental sustainability, manufacturing equipment faces a challenge to optimize carbon emissions from a life-cycle perspective. Current approaches lack the overall low-carbon optimization flow guidance...
Single-objective to multi-objective/many-objective optimization (SMO) is a new paradigm in the evolutionary transfer optimization (ETO), since there are only “1 + 4” pioneering works on SMOs so far, that is, “1” is continuous...
This paper presents a multi-constraint topology optimization strategy for rudder structures, integrating additive manufacturing (AM)-related overhang angle and flutter-performance considerations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study...
The conversion of manufacturing functional areas towards services implies a paradigm of Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS). It transforms the product fulfillment process to a distributed one via a service-oriented manufacturing platform. Successful Ma...
The design methodologies and part shape algorithms for additive manufacturing (AM) are rapidly growing fields, proven to be of critical importance for the uptake of additive manufacturing of parts with enhanced performance in all major industrial sec...
Power transmission and protection of power electronics–electromagnetic actuators are crucial parts in renewable energy systems (energy management of photovoltaic, wind power, hybrid and electric vehicles). Consistency optimization of electromag...
Having sustainable and flexible features is crucial for manufacturing companies considering the increasing competition in the globalized world. This study considers three aspects of sustainability, namely economic, social, and environmental factors,...
Manufacturing serves as a vital indicator of a nation’s economic strength, technological advancement, and comprehensive competitiveness. In the context of the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) business environment and global...
In the context of Industry 4.0, the matrix production developed by KUKA robotics represents a revolutionary solution for flexible manufacturing systems. Because of the adaptable and flexible manufacturing and material handling solutions, the design a...
CAD-CAE software companies have introduced numerous tools aimed at facilitating topology optimization through Finite Element Simulation, thereby enhancing accessibility for designers via user-friendly interfaces. However, the imposition of intricate...
Modern SiC-based materials are of paramount importance in that they serve as wear-resistant and thermal protectors and as next-generation single-photon sources for photonic and quantum solutions. Efforts are underway to identify more efficient method...
Aiming at the problem of the low collaborative efficiency of outsourced processing of coating machine oven parts under the network collaborative manufacturing mode, this paper proposes a composition optimization method for coating machine oven-manufa...
Additive manufacturing is the technique of combining materials layer by layer and process parameter optimization is a method used popularly for achieving the desired quality of a part. In this paper, four input parameters (layer height, infill densit...
Additive manufacturing, particularly extrusion-based 3D printing, has emerged as a transformative technology in various industries. This study aims to explore the challenges associated with tool path planning in dense-fill 3D printing, emphasizing th...
This paper presents a digital twin-driven multi-objective optimization approach for enhancing the performance and productivity of a multi-product manufacturing system under complex operational challenges. More specifically, the concept of digital twi...
With the background of implementing carbon peaking and carbon neutralization, identifying methods to realize energy-saving and carbon reduction effectively has become an important issue in the intelligent energy-conservation manufacturing industry. D...
In the industrial production scenario, the goal of engineering is focused on the continuous improvement of the process performance by maximizing the effectiveness of the manufacturing and the quality of the products. In order to address these aims, t...
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