High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Generic build time estimation model for parts produced by SLS
Yicha Zhang & Alain Bernard
Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN),
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France
ABSTRACT: Rapid Prototyping (RP) has evolved into Additive Manufacturing (AM) and plays an important
role in numerous application domains. Cost and lead time of AM become significant factors affecting the
comparison between AM and other traditional processes. The accuracy of build time estimation directly affects
the cost estimation for AM production. This paper introduces an analytical method to build time estimation for
parts, which takes ...