Potentials of Numerical Methods for Increasing the Productivity of Additive Manufacturing Processes

Thanks to the layer-by-layer creation of components, additive manufacturing (AM) processes enable flexible production components with highly complex geometries, that were previously not realizable or only very great effort. While AM technologies are widespread in research sector, they have so far been used industrially a few individual areas application. The costs one reason for this. In this work, new approach optimized arrangement building box and its potential reducing presented, illustrated by selected example, discussion. Three types cylinders, which differ geometry and/or inclination, required quantities around 1000 each. optimization aims at an smallest possible number printing jobs. Compared solution obtained current automatic software tool is based on bounding method, leads 70% increase platform or, other words, 44% reduction platforms needed manufacture 980 each type. Finally, three-step method proposed, optimize preparation automatically future.