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Title: Cost optimization of additive manufacturing in wood industry
Authors: Grujovic, Nenad
Pavlović A.
Šljivić, Milan
Zivic, Fatima
Issue Date: 2016
Abstract: © Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade. Software packages for 3D design and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, initially known as rapid prototyping (RP) have emerged during the last years, as a cutting edge solutions for custom prototyping. These new tools and technologies lower the design costs, but also allow rapid creation of fully functional components. This paper describes the FDM and 3DP rapid prototyping technologies that were used to create elements and tools in the wood industry field. Total costs of manufacturing related to the fabrication of sample elements and tools are analysed. One of the main recognised issues of wider application of rapid prototyping technologies is their still very high costs related to all production aspects, starting with a lack of available materials, material cost, up to high cost of available commercial equipment, usually focused only on specific solutions and limited range of materials. Generally, AM costs can be divided into the group of fixed costs and variable ones. This paper deals with the optimization of the production costs of fabricated elements in case of small-scale production, and optimization of variable costs (processing and post-processing, costs of enforcement, and material costs).
URI: https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/9155
Type: article
DOI: 10.5937/fmet1604386G
ISSN: 1451-2092
SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84988974287
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