The Importance of Digitalisation in Industrialising Additive Manufacturing: Learnings from the DIDAM P2030 Project
Paper in proceeding, 2024

Additive manufacturing, a technology that has evolved significantly over the last few decades, has shifted from prototyping to final product manufacturing. Despite its potential in design flexibility and customisation, its implementation in industrial ecosystems often faces challenges, especially in companies with established traditional manufacturing methods. This paper explores additive manufacturing beyond the printing process, drawing insights from the DIDAM project in Swedish manufacturing companies. It maps the advantages of additive manufacturing to external factors influencing its success such as digital infrastructure. This mapping yields “risk factors” for its implementation. These factors are based on empirical observations from the DIDAM project to identify potential failure modes, assess risks, and provide a snapshot view of critical issues. This objective evaluation aims to support managers in evaluating the risks associated with additive manufacturing’s integration into a company’s manufacturing ecosystem, based on empirical findings in industrial cases as reported in the DIDAM Digital Model Guide (Digital Model Guide, 2023).

Digitalisation

Additive Manufacturing

Design for Additive Manufacturing

Risk Analysis

Author

Ola Isaksson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Arindam Brahma

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Tina Hajali

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

David Ohlsson

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Adam Mallalieu

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

2352751X (ISSN) 23527528 (eISSN)

Vol. 52 442-452
978-1-64368-510-6 (ISBN)

11th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS2024
Trollhättan, Sweden,

Demonstration of Infrastructure for Digitalization enabling industrialization of Additive Manufacturing (DiDAM)

VINNOVA, 2020-02-20 -- 2023-02-20.

VINNOVA (2019-05591), 2020-02-20 -- 2023-02-20.

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

DOI

10.3233/ATDE240187

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6/18/2024