Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing

Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing
Author: Lin Zhang
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128231289

Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing explains how to combine the latest cloud manufacturing and additive manufacturing technology to find innovative solutions to important problems in research and industry. The manufacturing industry strives constantly to improve levels of product personalization for its customers, who have become increasingly demanding in this respect in recent decades. Among the tools currently growing in use in the industry, there is great potential to address this demand. Cloud manufacturing maps manufacturing resources and capabilities to the cloud, adding the capacity to gather decentralized manufacturing resources and use manufacturing services on-demand, and 3D printing provides strong support for truly individualized manufactured components. This is the first book to cover the whole lifecycle of 3D printing services in a cloud environment, including topics like: cloud servitization of 3D printers, 3D printing model design, supply-demand matching and scheduling, on-demand using and pricing, printing monitoring in cloud, and printing service evaluation. With a systematic introduction to this promising manufacturing paradigm, as well as coverage of models and service management to practical applications, this book will meet the needs of a broad range of researchers as well as practitioners. - Provides readers with a unique combined technical overview of two rapidly developing technologies and how they interact in a modern manufacturing system - Explores important challenges to security and privacy posed by these new technologies - Draws on valuable knowledge of how these technologies have been applied in innovative industry settings

Rapid Manufacturing

Rapid Manufacturing
Author: Neil Hopkinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006-02-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470032862

Rapid Manufacturing is a new area of manufacturing developed from a family of technologies known as Rapid Prototyping. These processes have already had the effect of both improving products and reducing their development time; this in turn resulted in the development of the technology of Rapid Tooling, which implemented Rapid Prototyping techniques to improve its own processes. Rapid Manufacturing has developed as the next stage, in which the need for tooling is eliminated. It has been shown that it is economically feasible to use existing commercial Rapid Prototyping systems to manufacture series parts in quantities of up to 20,000 and customised parts in quantities of hundreds of thousands. This form of manufacturing can be incredibly cost-effective and the process is far more flexible than conventional manufacturing. Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age addresses the academic fundamentals of Rapid Manufacturing as well as focussing on case studies and applications across a wide range of industry sectors. As a technology that allows manufacturers to create products without tools, it enables previously impossible geometries to be made. This book is abundant with images depicting the fantastic array of products that are now being commercially manufactured using these technologies. Includes contributions from leading researchers working at the forefront of industry. Features detailed illustrations throughout. Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age is a groundbreaking text that provides excellent coverage of this fast emerging industry. It will interest manufacturing industry practitioners in research and development, product design and materials science, as well as having a theoretical appeal to researchers and post-graduate students in manufacturing engineering, product design, CAD/CAM and CIFM.

Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing

Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing
Author: Theodor Borangiu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030030032

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 8th edition of the International Workshop “Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing – SOHOMA’18” held at the University of Bergamo, Italy on June 11–12, 2018. The objective of the SOHOMA annual workshops is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems by promoting new concepts, methods and solutions that use service orientation of agent-based control technologies with distributed intelligence. Reflecting the theme of SOHOMA’18: “Digital transformation of manufacturing with agent-based control and service orientation of Internet-scale platforms”, the research included focuses on how the digital transformation, as advocated by the “Industry 4.0”, “Industrial Internet of Things”, “Cyber-Physical Production Systems” and “Cloud Manufacturing” frameworks, improves the efficiency, agility and sustainability of manufacturing processes, products, and services, and how it relates to the interaction between the physical and informational worlds, which is implemented in the virtualization of products, processes and resources managed as services.

3D Printing with Biomaterials

3D Printing with Biomaterials
Author: A.J.M. van Wijk
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614994862

Additive manufacturing or 3D printing, manufacturing a product layer by layer, offers large design freedom and faster product development cycles, as well as low startup cost of production, on-demand production and local production. In principle, any product could be made by additive manufacturing. Even food and living organic cells can be printed. We can create, design and manufacture what we want at the location we want. 3D printing will create a revolution in manufacturing, a real paradigm change. 3D printing holds the promise to manufacture with less waste and energy. We can print metals, ceramics, sand, synthetic materials such as plastics, food or living cells. However, the production of plastics is nowadays based on fossil fuels. And that’s where we witness a paradigm change too. The production of these synthetic materials can be based also on biomaterials with biomass as feedstock. A wealth of new and innovative products are emerging when we combine these two paradigm changes: 3D printing and biomaterials. Moreover, the combination of 3D printing with biomaterials holds the promise to realize a truly sustainable and circular economy.

3D Printing and Ubiquitous Manufacturing

3D Printing and Ubiquitous Manufacturing
Author: Tin-Chih Toly Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030491501

This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM). UM itself represents an application of ubiquitous computing in the manufacturing sector, and this book reveals how it offers convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable manufacturing resources, including software tools, equipment, and capabilities. Given its scope, the book will be of considerable interest to researchers in the areas of manufacturing, mechanical engineering, operations management, production control, ubiquitous computing, and sensor technologies, as well as practicing managers and engineers.

Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems
Author: Dimitris Kiritsis (Kyritsis)
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303921201X

With the advent of disruptive digital technologies, companies are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Advanced manufacturing systems are of paramount importance in making key enabling technologies and new products more competitive, affordable, and accessible, as well as for fostering their economic and social impact. The manufacturing industry also serves as an innovator for sustainability since automation coupled with advanced manufacturing technologies have helped manufacturing practices transition into the circular economy. To that end, this Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, devoted to the broad field of Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, explores recent research into the concepts, methods, tools, and applications for smart sustainable manufacturing, in order to advance and promote the development of modern and intelligent manufacturing systems. In light of the above, this Special Issue is a collection of the latest research on relevant topics and addresses the current challenging issues associated with the introduction of smart sustainable manufacturing systems. Various topics have been addressed in this Special Issue, which focuses on the design of sustainable production systems and factories; industrial big data analytics and cyberphysical systems; intelligent maintenance approaches and technologies for increased operating life of production systems; zero-defect manufacturing strategies, tools and methods towards online production management; and connected smart factories.

Design and Operation of Production Networks for Mass Personalization in the Era of Cloud Technology

Design and Operation of Production Networks for Mass Personalization in the Era of Cloud Technology
Author: Dimitris Mourtzis
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128236582

Design and Operation of Production Networks for Mass Personalization in the Era of Cloud Technology draws on the latest industry advances to provide everything needed for the effective implementation of this powerful tool. Shorter product lifecycles have increased pressure on manufacturers through the increasing variety and complexity of production, challenging their workforce to remain competitive and profitable. This has led to innovation in production network methodologies, which together with opportunities provided by new digital technologies has fed a rapid evolution of production engineering that has opened new solutions to the challenges of mass personalization and market uncertainty. In addition to the latest developments in cloud technology, reference is made to key enabling technologies, including artificial intelligence, the digital twin, big data analytics, and the internet of things (IoT) to help users integrate the cloud approach with a fully digitalized production system. - Presents diverse cases that show how cloud-based technologies can be used in different ways as part of the standard operation of global production networks - Provides detailed reviews of new technologies like the digital twin, big data analytics, and blockchain to provide context on the role of cloud technologies in a fully digitalized system - Explores future trends for cloud technology and production engineering

Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM)

Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM)
Author: Dirk Schaefer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-06-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319073982

The book introduces the reader to game-changing ways of building and utilizing Internet-based services related to design and manufacture activities through the cloud. In a broader sense, CBDM refers to a new product realization model that enables collective open innovation and rapid product development with minimum costs through social networking and negotiation platforms between service providers and consumers. It is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of inter-connected physical and virtualized service pools of design and manufacturing resources as well as intelligent search capabilities for design and manufacturing solutions. Practicing engineers and decision makers will learn how to strategically position their product development operations for success in a globalized interconnected world.

Human-Centered Technology for a Better Tomorrow

Human-Centered Technology for a Better Tomorrow
Author: Mohd Hasnun Arif Hassan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811641153

This book acts as a compilation of papers presented in the Human Engineering Symposium (HUMENS 2021). The symposium theme, “Human-centered Technology for A Better Tomorrow,” covers the following research topics: ergonomics, biomechanics, sports technology, medical device and instrumentation, artificial intelligence / machine learning, industrial design, rehabilitation, additive manufacturing, modelling and bio-simulation, and signal processing. Fifty-nine articles published in this book are divided into four parts, namely Part 1—Artificial Intelligence and Biosimulation, Part 2—Biomechanics, Safety and Sports, Part 3—Design and Instrumentation, and Part 4—Ergonomics.

Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering
Author: Ambrish Maurya
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2023-06-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811977097

This book contains the select papers presented at the International Conference on Progressive Research in Industrial & Mechanical Engineering (PRIME 2021), held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, India. The book discusses various aspects related and relevant to core areas of mechanical engineering including engineering design, production engineering, industrial engineering, automobile engineering, thermal and fluids engineering, mechatronics, control and robotics and other inter-disciplinary emerging topics for potential use in a spectrum of applications. The book will be a valuable reference for students, researchers and professionals interested in mechanical engineering and allied fields.