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Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing

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Product life extension

General description

Product life extension aims at increasing the value from invested resources, providing a useful life that is as long as possible, and maximizing profitability over the life cycle of assets. It includes activities such as repair, upgrade, and remanufacture as well as Innovative re-use of equipment

Specifics for Project CAxMan | Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing

Manufacturing performance characteristics Project specific Kanban Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Taxon page Project specific Kanban Comment: We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes, and reduce energy consumption and indirectly CO2 emission Circular economy Taxon page Project specific Kanban Comment: CAxMan aim at using less material by offering new shape design methods for efficient design of voids and cavities. CAxMan also address the design of better and leaner support structures (use of less material) based analysis addressing thermal stresses and distortions during the additive process. Product life extension Taxon page Project specific Kanban Innovative re-use of equipment Taxon page Comment: Allow for more efficient design and process planning for additive manufacturing thus shortening the time to productions and facilitating distributed additive production.

09-01-2015

31-08-2018

Calltopic: FoF.ICT.2015.08.a_R&I

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Description An ecosystem of Open Source of algorithmic toolkits for additive manufacturing will be established during the life time of the project, in order to enable sustainability of the marketplace after the project
Comments Innovative re-use of equipment Manufacturing performance characteristics Product life extension Circular economy Environmental sustainability Allow for more efficient design and process planning for additive
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CAxMan (Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing) Result description AM allows adaptation of the product to customers´ needs, local manufacturing, individual products and small product series.