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Design, management and control of demanufacturing and remanufacturing systems KU Leuven
© 2017 In the recent years, increasing attention has been posed towards enhancing the sustainability of manufacturing processes by reducing the consumption of resources and key materials, the energy consumption and the environmental footprint, while also increasing companies’ competitiveness in global market contexts. De- and remanufacturing includes the set of technologies/systems, tools and knowledge-based methods to recover and reuse ...
Local manufacturing and structural shifts in competition: Market dynamics of additive manufacturing Vlerick Business School
Additive manufacturing (AM) allows to build components and finished series products directly from 3D data, without the need for tooling or other setup cost. An often discussed, but hardly investigated opportunity of AM is to establish economical and scalable local production facilities for innovating consumers (who turn into “prosumers”). In this paper, we investigate the effect of such a local production (enabled by AM) on consumer ...
Environmental modelling of aluminium based components manufacturing routes: Additive manufacturing versus machining versus forming KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Additive Manufacturing represents, by now, a viable alternative for metal-based components production. Therefore the designer, often, has to select among three options at process design stage: subtractive, mass conserving, and additive approaches. The selection of a given process, besides affecting the manufacturing step impact, influences significantly the impact related to the material production step. If the process ...
Environmental Impact of Additive Manufacturing Processes: Does AM contribute to a more sustainable way of part manufacturing? KU Leuven
While additive manufacturing applications are progressing from rapid prototyping to the production of end-use products, the environmental impacts caused by these manufacturing processes and related material flows are still a rather open question. Therefore, this paper will provide an overview of available life cycle inventory data and compare the environmental impact caused by a series of additive manufacturing processes: selective laser ...
Energy- and labor-aware production scheduling for sustainable manufacturing : a case study on plastic bottle manufacturing Ghent University
Environmental sustainability assessment of batch versus continuous manufacturing : lessons learned in primary and secondary pharmaceutical manufacturing Ghent University
Structural optimization of patient-specific temporomandibular joint replacement implants for additive manufacturing : novel metrics for safety evaluation and biomechanical performance Ghent University KU Leuven
Total temporomandibular joint (TMJ) replacement is recommended only when there is irreversible damage to the joint and no conservative treatment can provide functional improvements. Several stock and custom-made TMJ implants have been made available; however, retrospective and comparative studies were unable to find significant differences between the two types of solutions. The introduction of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques in medical ...
Investigation of the laser powder bed fusion manufacturing process and quasi-static behaviour of Ti6Al4V Voronoi structures KU Leuven
Ti6Al4V Voronoi structures are unique lattice structures with high potential in biomedical applications, owing to their tuneable mechanical properties and superior biocompatibility. Unlike unit cell-based lattice structures, Voronoi structures have struts that are oriented in any direction relative to the build direction, which impedes process optimisation and increases the risk of internal and structural defects. Previous research has primarily ...