System-level integration tools for laser-based powder bed fusion enabled process chains
| Autor: | Khamis Essa, Uwe Jurdeczka, Julien Bajolet, Nicholas J.E. Adkins, Johannes Maurath, Luke N. Carter, Aldi Mehmeti, Stefan Simeonov Dimov, Nathalie Maillol, Pavel Penchev, Debajyoti Bhaduri |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Fusion Subtractive color Computer science Process (engineering) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Interoperability 02 engineering and technology Modular design Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Replication (computing) 020901 industrial engineering & automation Hardware and Architecture Control and Systems Engineering 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering System integration 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Quality (business) Process engineering business Software media_common |
| ISSN: | 0278-6125 |
| Popis: | A multi-setup additive manufacturing (AM) platform that integrates the powder bed fusion (PBF) technology with a range of complementary pre- and post-processing steps has the potential to be an appealing and flexible production solution for addressing the technical requirements of the existing and new products. Especially, such multi-step manufacturing solutions could overcome the limitations of standalone additive, subtractive, replication and surface engineering processes by reinforcing their complementary capabilities. However, the lack of specially developed system-level tools to address interoperability issues in integrating PBF with other technologies leads to high uncertainty and overall risk in producing parts that incorporate geometries with different manufacturing requirements, e.g. parts with areas that can be cost-effectively machined while others require AM solutions. To address such open issues, this paper presents the development of generic hardware and software integration tools that can improve the system level performance of AM enabled process chains. In particular, the research reports the design and implementation of modular workpiece holding system and quality control strategy that can warrant the production of parts encompassing structures with distinctly different manufacturing requirements. An experimental validation of the proposed tools was performed to assess their capabilities in producing parts with high accuracy and repeatability. The results demonstrate that their synergistic utilisation can lead to significant improvements in producing AM sections on top of pre-machined preforms in regards to their positional accuracy and repeatability. It was observed that the positional accuracy in the hybrid additive-subtractive parts was improved thirtyfold with the system level tools from 0.604mm and 0.442mm to 21 μm and 10 μm along X and Y axes, respectively. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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