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Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Yudhi Ariadi & Allan EW Rennie Lancaster Product Development Unit (LPDU) Engineering Department Lancaster University
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Aims
To develop an easy-to-operate design system, where consumers can interact with design choices and customise the design instead of operating conventional CAD To make ALM more reliable and easier to operate by consumers To combine easy manufacturing (ALM) with easy design (Design Template)
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Background
Design technology CAD scope has been diversified:
Easy-to-operate More detailed and specific for specialist Simple for specific design for special interest or hobbies
Easy CAD for general product design
e.g.: Google Sketchup SpaceClaim
http://www.thepocket.com/page6/google sketchup.htm
http://www.cadalyst.com/
http://www.bikeforest.com/CAD/
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Background
Design technology CAD, with VR and Haptic, moves from industrial to consumer tools
Production stage from consumers to end use products
CONSUMERS NEEDS STYLISH DESIGNER or MODELLERS DESIGN ENGINEERS MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS CAM CAD PRODUCT
User-friendly CAD
Haptic
CAE
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Background
ALM technology
The use of ALM will increase ALM brings manufacturing closer to consumers
Previous 4 stages
CONSUMER S NEEDS PRODUCT DESIGN RAPID PROTOTYPING RAPID MANUFACTURING Product
Current 3 stages
CONSUMER S NEEDS PRODUCT DESIGN with Virtual Prototype RAPID RAPID MANUFACTURING PROTOTYPING Product
Future 2 stages
CONSUMER S NEEDS with Design Template
Product
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Background
ALM technology
ALM can simplify the understanding and use of manufacturing equipment and would change the factory into a home appliance In the future, everyone will have a printer like this at home,
Hod Lipson, a professor at Cornell University, The New York Times online, 07 May 2007
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
QUESTION ?
How can they create products, if the CAD requires lengthy specialist training?
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Design
Design tool would be built with the following criteria:
Focus on consumers/SMEs as users User-friendly Can be used for customisation/ individualisation The design output can be materialised by ALM
USER FRIENDLY
DESIGN TEMTEMPLATE
CUSTOMISATION
BUILT BY ALM
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Design
Schematic diagram of Design Template
Consumer
CUSTOMISATION
ALM capability
METHOD, MATERIAL
DESIGN TEMPLATE
Feature 2 Feature 3
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Design
Design Template uses simple html format that contains:
Data base features 3D modelling created by SolidWorks publisher
So, consumers are able to review the final design without the need for costly CAD software.
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Research Conclusion
Design Template:
will enable the widespread utilisation of ALM could be employed by consumers as the software that is compatible with the ALM hardware could also be used by Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who produce specific products and repeat their designs for a wide range of variants
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Future Work
The interface between Design Template, customisation features (uploading photo/logo, texting) and pre-manufacturing process still needs to be developed in the future Regarding to Open Source Software and the internet social networking trends, it would be appropriate to create a Portal for ALM Design Templates to accommodate the design templates of other specific products
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Acknowledgments
This research is partfunded under the auspices of the European Regional Development Fund Rapid Manufacturing North West Project and the Higher Education Innovation Fund.
9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing Friday, 13th June 2008
Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products
Thank you