Integrated design and quality conformance of parts manufactured via fused deposition modeling

3D Print Western是一家位于AB省埃德蒙顿的增材制造（AM）服务提供商。该公司的核心活动是在工程产品生命周期的全方位为不同的客户需求提供AM设计，开发和制造服务。该公司提供生产级，功能机械工件，包括夹具，夹具，工具，原型和模型，以其客户。为此，该公司拥有最先进的Stratasys Fortus系列熔融沉积建模（FDM）生产打印机。然而，尽管拥有先进的打印和设计能力，该公司仍无法根据客户的要求验证和验证最终打印部件所需的机械和几何行为。这主要是由于缺乏用于增材制造设计（DFAM）的适当设计和鉴定工具。这导致在最终产品的信心、工艺能力和质量保证方面存在差距。这可能会导致产品质量问题以及设备故障、客户和收入损失以及保修问题等方面的更高风险。该公司打算通过拟议的研究项目降低这种风险并提高质量。该项目将研究和开发预测性计算机辅助设计（CAD）方法，以确保增材制造产品的稳健性和质量一致性。

3D Print Western is an additive manufacturing (AM) service provider based in Edmonton, AB. The core activities of the company are to provide AM design, development and manufacturing services for different client needs across the full spectrum of the engineering product life cycle. The Company provides production grade, functional mechanical artifacts, comprising jigs, fixtures, tools, prototypes and models to its clients. For this purpose, the company has a state of the art Stratasys Fortus series fused deposition modeling (FDM) production printer. However, despite the advanced printing and design capability, the company is unable to verify and validate the required mechanical and geometric behavior of the final printed parts as per the client's requirements. This is mainly due to unavailability of appropriate design and qualification tools for design for additive manufacturing (DFAM). This results in a gap in confidence, process capability and quality assurance of the final product. This may result in product quality issues and higher risk in terms of equipment failure, loss of clients and revenue, and warranty issues. The company intends to reduce this risk and increase the quality through the proposed research project. The project will research and develop predictive computer aided design (CAD) methods for ensuring robust behavior and quality conformance of the additively manufactured goods.