Additive Manufacturing for Industrial Applications

Development of a Methodology for Integrating Added Value into Products by Additive Manufacturing

JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 36, 2020, Edition 4, Pages 50-54
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M_20-4_S50-54
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Abstract

Additive Manufacturing has become more important for industrial applications. The technology offers the opportunity of high geometric flexibility and no need of product specific tools including short time to market. The aim is to integrate added value into products by exploiting these possibilities. Therefore, in this work a methodology focusing on these aspects is developed and applied to a structural component.

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