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Environmental impact of conventional manufacturing and additive manufacturing in lifecycle of turbine blade
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2018-05-16) Torres Carrillo, Sharon Andrea; Rodríguez González, Ciro Ángel; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Vila Pastor, Carlos; Vega, Yadira
The exponential growth of additive manufacturing technologies is not only improving production processes to achieve functional requirements for products, but it could also help to minimize environmental impacts. In order to align a green product lifecycle management vision, companies need to implement emerging technologies and define a set of metrics that measure the benefits of the change. Each product requires a particular and optimized manufacturing process plan, and each production phase must achieve a significant reduction of critical metrics for the whole Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This study provides a comprehensive and comparative LCA of two manufacturing process plans for the case study of an aircraft engine turbine blade. The first process consists of a combination of Investment Casting and Precision Machining and the second consists in the replacement of Investment casting by Selective Laser Melting as an emergent process for near net shape fabrication. The collected data for the comparison includes Global Warming Potential (GWP), Acidification Potential (AP), Ozone layer Depletion Potential (ODP), Human Toxicity Potential (HTP), Ecotoxicity and Abiotic Depletion Potential (ADP).
Convergence of Industry 4.0 and Regenerative Engineering to boost development of scaffolds created by hybrid additive manufacturing
(2017-12-05) Camargo Camrgo, Belinda; Rodríguez González, Ciro Ángel; Romero Díaz, David Carlos
Industry 4.0 and its underlying technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), are usually portrayed as a way to enable communication in a workshop between the machinery and an intelligent control system, handle consumer demand for customized products, achieve a near-zero defect manufacturing process, and handle materials, energy consumption, and waste more efficiently, amongst others. Case studies on how the automotive, electronics, or aerospace industry benefit from Industry 4.0 implementation are readily available and surely, there are more to come. By contrast, scaffolds of Regenerative Engineering, are still in Research and Development and yet to be approved as a commercial regenerative procedure. A thorough analysis of the requirements was developed and the product manufacturing phases were modeled using Unified Modeling Language (UML). Business, structure, activity, class, and sequence diagrams, amongst others, are modeled using this standard and an ontology that converges Industry 4.0 technologies applied on Regenerative Engineering is established under the Ontology Web Language Description Logic (OWL-Dl). An architecture to augment a scaffold manufacturing cell with Industry 4.0 technologies is proposed. By using smart sensors, actuators, and the information they generate, a database with material and process variables is populated. This database can then be analyzed by smart algorithms to find the most effective parameters to manufacture a successful scaffold for tissue regeneration. Initial testing shows the feasibility of the proposed architecture and its ability to store relevant information of the produc

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