Design and Process Modeling for Manufacturing Custom Product

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Additive manufacturing (AM), a.k.a. 3D printing, has been developed at exceptional rates and has a growing impact in many important applications such as automotive, aerospace, medical, electronics, commercial, and fashion industries. This promising approach will change the nature of manufacturing in product design and fabrication. The most attractive capability of AM is that it can produce custom products without much increasing in time, material, or cost, which makes “complexity for free”. Custom product offers inherent advantages over their mass produced counterparts. They can provide more comfort, unique aesthetic appeal, or better performance. The ultimate goal of this research program is to enhance the current fundamental knowledge regarding on the necessary design and manufacturing techniques to evolve the traditional mass production to mass customization.