Elsevier

Procedia Manufacturing

Volume 11, 2017, Pages 545-554
Procedia Manufacturing

The Role of Additive Manufacturing in the Era of Industry 4.0

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Abstract

The latest industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, is encouraging the integration of intelligent production systems and advanced information technologies. Additive manufacturing (AM) is considered to be an essential ingredient in this new movement. In this paper, a comprehensive review on AM technologies is presented together with both its contributions to Industry 4.0. The review focusses on three important aspects of AM: recent advances on material science, process development, and enhancements on design consideration. The main objective of the paper is to classify the current knowledge (and technological trends) on AM and to highlight its potential uses.

Keywords

Additive manufacturing
3D printing
Smart materials
Computational geometry
Industry 4.0

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Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 27th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing.