Design and Process Modeling for Manufacturing Custom Product

增材制造（AM），又称3D打印，以惊人的速度发展，并在许多重要应用中产生越来越大的影响，如汽车、航空航天、医疗、电子、商业和时尚行业。这种有希望的方法将改变产品设计和制造的制造性质。增材制造最吸引人的能力是它可以生产定制产品，而不会在时间，材料或成本上增加太多，这使得“免费的复杂性”。定制产品比大批量生产的同类产品具有固有的优势。它们可以提供更舒适、独特的美学吸引力或更好的性能。这项研究计划的最终目标是提高当前关于必要的设计和制造技术的基础知识，以发展传统的大规模生产到大规模定制。

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.