... Licensed re-use rights only Design for additive manufacturing Product design 3D printing Decision support Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are characterised by a close relationship between design, manufacture and material properties. For the same process and the same geometry...

... Costs Advanced manufacturing technologies Estimation Rapid manufacturing Decision support Even though it was originally developed for rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly used for the direct production of final parts, which is referred to as rapid manufacturing...

... regarding the part build and the relative importance of build outcomes such as production speed, dimensional accuracy, and surface quality, setting process variables to ensure desired results is a complex task. A multi‐objective decision support system has been developed to aid the user in setting FDM...

... of the accuracy models and process planning method is illustrated on one part. Accuracy Stereolithography Process planning Decision support Manufacturers of rapid prototyping machines often state the accuracy of their machines as a ratio of an error per unit length. For example, accuracy of a SLA...