TY - GEN
T1 - Achieving mass customization through additive manufacturing
AU - Mahamood, R. M.
AU - Akinlabi, E. T.
N1 - Funding information: The authors acknowledge the Rental Pool Service of National Laser Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. The support of UNESCO-L’Oreal for Women in Science is also acknowledged.
PY - 2016/7/10
Y1 - 2016/7/10
N2 - Mass customization aim to achieve customized product at a rate similar to mass production rate. Additive manufacturing (AM), an advanced manufacturing method, is capable of producing customized product, no matter the complexity simply, by adding materials layer after layer and building of the part in one unit. Unlike in traditional manufacturing process where a complex part needs to be broken down to smaller units and then assembled at a later stage, AM produces a complex part directly from the computer aided design (CAD) model of the part by adding materials in layers as against material removal in the traditional manufacturing process. Consumer product is moving from standardized product to customized product. For manufacturing companies to be able to keep up with this demand trend; there is a need for manufacturing process that deliver. This study looks at how AM can be used to achieve customized product with mass production efficiency.
AB - Mass customization aim to achieve customized product at a rate similar to mass production rate. Additive manufacturing (AM), an advanced manufacturing method, is capable of producing customized product, no matter the complexity simply, by adding materials layer after layer and building of the part in one unit. Unlike in traditional manufacturing process where a complex part needs to be broken down to smaller units and then assembled at a later stage, AM produces a complex part directly from the computer aided design (CAD) model of the part by adding materials in layers as against material removal in the traditional manufacturing process. Consumer product is moving from standardized product to customized product. For manufacturing companies to be able to keep up with this demand trend; there is a need for manufacturing process that deliver. This study looks at how AM can be used to achieve customized product with mass production efficiency.
KW - Additive manufacturing
KW - Advanced manufacturing
KW - Mass customization
KW - Traditional manufacturing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986294538&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41697-7_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41697-7_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84986294538
SN - 9783319416960
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 385
EP - 390
BT - Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing
A2 - Trzcieliński, Stefan
A2 - Schlick, Christopher
PB - Springer
CY - Cham, Switzerland
T2 - International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing, HAAMAHA 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -