Disrupting Design Processes through

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Disruption:

Constructive disruption is the deliberate unsettling of the way you’re most comfortable thinking or working. It allows / forces you to create your own framework for rendering palpable, the workings of your mind, as it tries to create order and meaning.

Disruption for the sake ?NO

2D Manual Sketch finalization1:1 SketchTemplates- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - -Clay ModelDigitizeClay milling3D modelWooden mockupDigitizeTemp ToolingsComponentslayout checkTesting Final Toolings- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - -Endurance testingMarket Release

3D Sketching (Morphology based topological optimization)

R P/ Additive Model

Additive manufacturing or Final Tooling

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Technologies that caused DISRUPTION Morphology based Topological

Optimization3D SketchingBlue light scanningVirtual ProtoypingAdditive manufacturing

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Virtual prototyping

3 D Sketching

Blue light scanning digitizing

Morphology based topological optimization

PLM based concurrent design

Artificial intelligence

Information Technology (IOT etc.)

Additive Manufacturing is the biggest star

Rapid Prototyping :FANCY ?NO, not any more.They are a necessity, if you want to remain competitive.

At clay model stage, complex small parts

3D sketching

After Sketch, Clay, Scan, Surface

After Sketch, Clay, Scan, Surface , Clay mill, Scan After sketch, Model, 3D Solid model (engineered)

Mockup

Functional

Test worthy

Additive Manufacturing Proto/

Cost in terms of cash outflow

Reduction in Design throughput time

Design for Additive manufacturingMultiple part assy as one

Early Aesthetic evaluation Easy to paint / check with multiple parts Ergonomic s

Tactile finish

Textures

RP Facts

Rapid Manufacturing Parts : limited addition/ Customized

Tools : Injection Moulds.

Assembly Jigs

Machining Fixtures

Inserts

Studio Basic frame / core for clay

Additive Manufacturing:

ProcessesSLASLSFDM3D PrintingSLMMetal PrintingSand Printing

Understand the process , its strength.

Select the process based on application. ( help achieve the Goal)

Challenges:Mechanical properties are not isotropicStill large lead timeHigher Cost ( for large volume)

But then again

It’s important to remember that disruption is a positive force. Disruptions are not use of breakthrough technologies that make good processes better; rather they are innovative application of new technologies that affects the overall cycle in a way , that never was.

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