Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) have executed an experiment to test the cloud-based application of an in-house micro metal additive manufacturing process. Their fi ndings are published in “A Novel System for Cloud-based Micro Additive Manufacturing of Metal Structures,” which appears in a special “all-additive” edition of SME’s Journal of Manufacturing Processes. The system was linked to commercial cloud and e-mail access for constant real-time communication from any user with a phone, tablet, or personal computer. The process could be started, stopped, altered, and queried remotely via the cloud.
Plots of output performance, time, and current informa-
tion were communicated back to the user on demand, as well as stored on the cloud long-term. The cloud could then link input parameters to the history of system performance on such input parameters in a cloud-stored database. An experiment was set up to optimize horizontal deposition
parameters based on deposition resolution, and save these values into the cloud for future use,
The experiment was successfully executed and dem- onstrates the advantage of long-term storage, knowledge sharing, and convenience that the cloud offers for the manufacturing realm. The potential for Smart Manufacturing applied to micro additive manufacturing was shown by sav- ing experimental data of a current-feedback experiment and using it to generate a constant-time experiment. Read the entire paper at
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