Open AccessSUSTAINABILITY IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Author(s) -
Afzal Bhat M,
Devanshu Veshviker,
Kevin Bhat,
Sagar Shah,
Shaikh A A
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of manufacturing engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0973-6867
DOI - 10.37255/jme.v15i1pp007-011
Subject(s) - rework , sustainability , key (lock) , quality (philosophy) , production (economics) , quality assurance , risk analysis (engineering) , process (computing) , work (physics) , process management , business , computer science , environmental economics , manufacturing engineering , engineering , economics , marketing , computer security , mechanical engineering , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , embedded system , service (business) , operating system , macroeconomics
Additive Manufacturing (AM) opens new opportunities for the economy and the society and the global market of this technology is growing rapidly. However, quality assurance remains the main barrier for a broader integration of AM in the industrial sector. Most quality-related problems of AM are caused by uncontrolled variations in the production chain. By identifying the key controlling parameters or the Key Characteristics (KC) and introducing the proper process control protocol for these parameters, the effect of these variations can be limited and expensive monitoring, rework, repair and quality-related problems can often be avoided. The work presented in this paper reviews the recent literature related to sustainability in AM and proposes a new approach into how the keycharacteristics, which are normally used to reduce variations in production, can give an insight to a sustainable AM.