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Over time, additive manufacturing (AM) has gained more and more adoption into series production. Software tools are developed to assist designers to incorporate specific design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) guidelines into their product development processes. In this paper, an overview of already existing DfAM functionality is given by a review of scientific publications and commercial software products. Additionally, interviews with members of development teams which design AM parts are carried out to assess specific workflows and problems in the current design process.

Supplier of system components face the challenge of customer requirements influencing the property level functional integral product architectures. For this, solution approaches focusing on the re-use of pre-engineered part variants are not applicable. However, to generate a valid product structure, customer-specific properties have to fit modelled product knowledge. Therefore, the approach models a reference class structure and analysis compatibilities on the property level for customer specific inputs concerning explicit product knowledge and constraints.

Für die Messung von Prozessabläufen wie der Beschaffung (Supply Chain), der Arbeitsvorbereitung und der Produktion werden spezifische Unternehmenskennzahlen genutzt. Diese Key Performance Indicator (kurz: KPI) bilden häufig jedoch ausschließlich finanzielle Aspekte für eine unternehmensinterne Überwachung ab und berücksichtigen nicht den Entwicklungsprozess. Alternative Ansätze verwenden aus dem Expertenwissen der Mitarbeiter zusammengetragene Informationen, die durch ihre Subjektivität die Reproduzierbarkeit erschweren. In Abgrenzung zu bestehenden Konzepten wird in diesem Beitrag die Effizienz-Bewertung von variantenreichen Produktportfolios auf Basis der Produktstrukturen sämtlicher realisierter Erzeugnisvarianten beschrieben. [... aus Punkt 2

Facing a rising competitive pressure, manufactures create advantages when they are able to offer customer-specific products to the conditions of a mass production article. Traditional configurators support the creation of personalized products from the elements of a modular product system, but are based on a pre-defined set of rules. The model based approach changes the environment of configuration from static configuration rules to the dependencies defined within the product's system model. So, by regarding target quantities of the user, the configurator identifies the optimal variant.