Recent e-Manufacturing solutions developed by EOS

• Main Authors: Langer, H.J., Shellabear, M.
• Other Authors: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein 2015
• Subjects: e-Manufacturing; Rapid manufacturing; Laser-sintering; DMLS; Series production
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11462/492

Published Article === e-Manufacturing means the fast, flexible and cost-effective production of parts directly from electronic data, which can include rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, (spare) parts on demand etc. Especially interesting is the direct manufacture of enduse parts. In this paper, recent case studies will be presented showing commercial e-Manufacturing projects including small production batches and mass customized series production from various industrial branches. The paper also discusses the relevance of several recent technological innovations in laser-sintering for e- Manufacturing, especially how increasing the productivity of machines and process chains has increased the range of applications which are cost-effective using lasersintering. <br>Case studies include: <ul> <li> small series production (up to a few thousand p.a.) of products</li> <li> production of customized (one-off) products</li> <li> mass production of customer-specific (mass customized) products</li> <li> optimized tooling concepts for production of up to millions of products</li> </ul>