STEP-NC digital thread for additive manufacturing: data model, implementation and validation

Bonnard, Renan; Hascoët, Jean-Yves; Mognol, Pascal; Stroud, Ian

doi:10.1080/0951192x.2018.1509130

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“…Additive manufacturing processes are proven to be reliable methods of fabrication for complex geometries, tough materials, and user-specific designs [90]. Although AM processes are being used in industries, their full capacity is not well exploited yet.…”

Section: Advanced Additive Manufacturing Processesmentioning

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The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review

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Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing has introduced a novel production method in design, manufacturing, and distribution to end-users. This technology has provided great freedom in design for creating complex components, highly customizable products, and efficient waste minimization. The last industrial revolution, namely industry 4.0, employs the integration of smart manufacturing systems and developed information technologies. Accordingly, AM plays a principal role in industry 4.0 thanks to numerous benefits, such as time and material saving, rapid prototyping, high efficiency, and decentralized production methods. This review paper is to organize a comprehensive study on AM technology and present the latest achievements and industrial applications. Besides that, this paper investigates the sustainability dimensions of the AM process and the added values in economic, social, and environment sections. Finally, the paper concludes by pointing out the future trend of AM in technology, applications, and materials aspects that have the potential to come up with new ideas for the future of AM explorations.

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The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review

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“…Here material recovery solutions involve collaborative cells(Ruggeri et al 2017), containing vision systems and tool changing capabilities(Wegener et al 2015), depth sensors for component locating(Bdiwi et al 2016), socket changing(Chen et al 2014) and mobile robots for material relocation(Minca et al 2014). These systems (and others) require the development of suitable software (Salonitis and Stavropoulos 2013) and production chain-compliance standards(Bonnard et al 2018, Bonnard et al 2019 to enable autonomy via information and communications technology (ICT) integration.The expected growth in ICT comes as no surprise considering the IoT is reliant on the internet to increase the interoperability of people and products. A high-level framework for an ICT infrastructure which is essential for the implementation of circular production systems is proposed byAsif et al (2018) but does not explicitly consider the use of IoT, I4.0 technologies, or how remanufacturing fits.…”

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Smart remanufacturing: a review and research framework

Kerin

Pham

2020

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PurposeTo review the state-of-the-art in smart remanufacturing, highlighting key elements of an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) future that supports circular economy (CE) principles and offer a conceptual framework and research agenda to accelerate digitalisation in this sector.Design/methodology/approachThe Scopus, Web of Science and ScienceDirect databases and search terms “Industry 4.0”, “Internet of things”, “Smart manufacturing” and “Remanufacturing” were used to identify and select publications that had evidence of a relationship between those keywords. The 329 selected papers were reviewed with respect to the triple bottom line (economic, social and environmental). The study benefited from advanced text quantitative processing using NVivo software and a complete manual qualitative assessment.FindingsChanges in product ownership models will affect the remanufacturing industry, with the growth of product-service-systems seen as an opportunity to re-circulate resources and create value. This is being supported by changes in society, user expectations and workforce attributes. Key to the success of remanufacturing in an I4.0 future is the uptake of existing and emerging digital technologies to shorten and strengthen links between product manufacturers, users and remanufacturers.Originality/valueRemanufacturing is recognised as a key CE strategy, which in turn is an important research area for development in our society. This article is the first to study “smart remanufacturing” for the CE. Its uniqueness lies in its focus on the remanufacturing industry and the sustainable application of I4.0 enablers. The findings are used to create a framework that links to the research agenda needed to realise smart remanufacturing.

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“…The research in this field identifies that to maximise the potential of AM pertaining to Mass Customisation, several digital issues must be addressed. As noted by Bonnard et al [12,13], a key difficulty is interacting with and exchanging models, in which the AM digital supply chain convention for 3D CAD models is an STL representation. This limits the useful information that can be extracted from the model.…”

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Designing and Integrating a Digital Thread System for Customized Additive Manufacturing in Multi-Partner Kayak Production

Bonham

McMaster

Thomson

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Additive manufacturing (AM) opens the vision of decentralised and individualised manufacturing, as a tailored product can be manufactured in proximity to the customers with minimal physical infrastructure required. Consequently, the digital infrastructure and systems solution becomes substantially more complex. There is always a need to design the entire digital system so that different partners (or stakeholders) access correct and relevant information and even support design iterations despite the heterogenous digital environments involved. This paper describes how the design and integration of a digital thread for AM can be approached. A system supporting a digital thread for AM kayak production has been designed and integrated in collaboration with a kayak manufacturer and a professional collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) software and service provider. From the demonstrated system functionality, three key lessons learnt are clarified: (1) The need for developing a process model of the physical and digital flow in the early stages, (2) the separation between the data to be shared and the processing of data to perform each parties’ task, and (3) the development of an ad-hoc digital application for the involvement of new stakeholders in the AM digital flow, such as final users. The application of the digital thread system was demonstrated through a test of the overall concept by manufacturing a functional and individually customised kayak, printed remotely using AM (composed of a biocomposite containing 20% wood-based fibre).

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STEP-NC digital thread for additive manufacturing: data model, implementation and validation

Cited by 39 publications

References 65 publications

The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review

The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review

Smart remanufacturing: a review and research framework

Designing and Integrating a Digital Thread System for Customized Additive Manufacturing in Multi-Partner Kayak Production

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