EAGER/Collaborative Research/Cybermanufacturing: Just Make It: Integrating Cybermanufacturing into Design Studios to Enable Innovation

EAGER/协作研究/网络制造：Just Make It：将网络制造集成到设计工作室以实现创新

• 批准号: 1547021
• 负责人: Timothy Simpson
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Collaborative; Research; Cybermanufacturing; Just

Additive manufacturing, in which physical products are fabricated in a layer-by-layer fashion, is creating renewed interest in manufacturing. Additive manufacturing offers numerous advantages over traditional manufacturing processes, such as machining, casting, and forging, but it is not always the most cost effective method for fabricating parts. In many cases, subtractive manufacturing techniques (i.e., fabrication processes like machining that remove material to create a finished part) are more cost-effective, but they require additional expertise and set-up compared to the "push button" technology available on many additive manufacturing systems. In order to further improve accessibility to all digital fabrication technologies, and to better inform "makers" of the manufacturability of their designs, the team of this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will create a set of design tools and software applications that provide rapid manufacturing feedback in terms of geometry, material, quality, lead time, and cost to fabricate a component. The cybermanufacturing system will be integrated into undergraduate mechanical engineering design studios at three partner institutions (Georgia Tech, Penn State University, and Virginia Tech) and will be formally assessed in order to answer the research question, "How does this cybermanufacturing system and resulting design assessment capability enable innovation?" This work will lay the foundation for future, larger-scale cybermanufacturing efforts that will connect engineering students and the broader maker community with a larger array of manufacturing capabilities and know-how, making them better prepared for the engineering and entrepreneurial workforce of tomorrow. The project's cloud-based cybermanufacturing system will be comprised of applications (apps) for additive and subtractive manufacturing that will provide an integrated view of the semantic information needed to assess manufacturability of part designs. The cybermanufacturing system leverages state-of-the-art advances in tool path planning for multi-axis machine tools based on novel voxel-based flexible data representations for product geometry, which will further the flexibility and accessibility of subtractive manufacturing. The resulting system will be deployed in the partner institutions' vibrant, yet distinct, design studio environments that offer hands-on design/build experiences to several hundred undergraduate engineering students each year. The impact of the system on the design process will be measured directly using novel assessment instruments designed to probe salient aspects of innovation in product design and their impact on the students engaged. This project's approach will inform requirements for mapping more expansive networks and manufacturing capabilities in future cybermanufacturing service systems.

增材制造业以逐层方式制造物理产品正在对制造产生新的兴趣。与传统制造过程（例如加工，铸造和锻造）相比，增材制造具有许多优势，但这并不总是制造零件的最具成本效益的方法。在许多情况下，减去制造技术（即，诸如加工之类的制造过程，将材料删除以创建成品零件）更具成本效益，但是与许多增材制造系统可用的“推动按钮”技术相比，它们需要额外的专业知识和设置。为了进一步提高所有数字制造技术的可访问性，并更好地告知“制造商”其设计的制造性，这项早期概念研究的团队（急切）项目将创建一套设计工具和软件应用程序，这些设计工具和软件应用程序可为几何，材料，材料，质量，质量，质量，销售时间以及成本制造组件提供快速制造反馈。网络制造系统将集成到三个合作伙伴机构（佐治亚理工学院，宾夕法尼亚州立大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学）的本科机械工程设计工作室中，并将进行正式评估，以回答研究问题：“该网络制造系统如何以及如何实现设计的设计评估能力启用创新？”这项工作将为未来的大规模网络制造工作奠定基础，该工作将把工程专业的学生和更广泛的制造商社区与更大的制造能力和专有技术联系起来，使它们为明天的工程和企业家劳动力做好了准备。 该项目的基于云的网络制造系统将由添加剂和减法制造的应用程序（应用程序）组成，这些应用程序将提供评估零件设计的生产性所需的语义信息的集成视图。网络制造系统利用基于新颖的基于天素的灵活数据表示的多轴机床的工具路径计划的最新进展，这将进一步提高减法制造的灵活性和可及性。最终的系统将部署在合作伙伴机构的充满活力但独特的设计工作室环境中，该环境每年为数百名本科工程专业的学生提供动手设计/建立体验。系统对设计过程的影响将直接使用旨在探讨产品设计创新显着方面的新型评估工具及其对参与学生的影响。该项目的方法将为未来的网络制造服务系统中绘制更广泛的网络和制造能力的要求提供信息。