High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Additive manufacturing and topology optimization to support product
family design
Ningrong Lei & Seung Ki Moon
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Guijun Bi
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
ABSTRACT: New layer wise manufacturing technologies, such as laser Additive Manufacturing (AM), are
a game changer for product family design, because these new technologies bring a fundamental change to
profitability considerations. This paper investigates the fundamental change and presents a product family
design methodology based on AM. We describe a product family agreement process ...