Additive Manufacturing Challenges（加法制造的挑战）.pdfVIP

Additive Manufacturing Challenges Dr. Suman Das Dr. Ben Wang Dr. Chip White Georgia Institute of Technology Point of View Paper – January 28, 2013 Reaching Additive Manufacturings Transformative Potential Additive manufacturing, also known as direct digital manufacturing or 3D printing, continues to receive much attention and interest within industry, government and academia for its potential to produce, on demand, highly customized and complex products with minimum energy and material waste. The true transformational aspects of additive manufacturing are the decoupling of unit product cost from lot size and the enablement of innovative product features that are not possible with todays manufacturing processes, resulting in superior performance capabilities. Much of the attention and the resultant funding has been directed towards the investigation of new materials and expanded process capabilities that are essential for additive manufacturings usefulness. In order for additive manufacturing to reach its transformative potential, however, we strongly argue that two challenges must be immediately and quickly addressed: 1) rapid certification, and 2) supply chain realignment. Rapid Certification Additive manufacturing has the potential for greatly shortening procurement lead times, as several time-consuming manufacturing steps can feasibly be eliminated from each process. For example, according to Frazier (NAVAIR), the production lead time of certain key Navy parts can be reduced from 8-28 months to as few as 2-7 weeks. Many other sim