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STEP/STEP-NC-compliant manufacturing information of 3D printing for FDM technology

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Advanced manufacturing in the context of the digital thread has mainly focused on process information related to the integration of machining processes, tools, operations, and specific manufacturing parameters. However, no unified information model has been developed to represent specific manufacturing process in 3D printing. This work therefore proposes a STEP/STEP-NC-compliant process data model to define specific application objects and entities, to model manufacturing data relationships and constraints, and to standardize process parameters through extended 3D printing concepts in fused deposition modelling (FDM). This data model describes manufacturing layers, deposition operations and process parameters in the context of the digital thread. As a special feature, manufacturing layers provide geometric information to layered operations based on STEP/STEP-NC standards for additive manufacturing (AM). Deposition operations specify the definitions of print devices or headers, header paths, FDM technology and functions, and even deposition strategy. Process parameters mainly provide process information in the FDM process. Finally, a conformance testing process is developed, focussed on manufacturing layers and header paths and by means of information exchange.

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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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PhD grant of Dr. Jinhua Xiao has been funded by the China Scholarship Council under the ID 201504490035.

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  1. School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Jinhua Xiao

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roberval Institute, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, F.60203, Compiègne Cedex, France

    Benoît Eynard, Alexandre Durupt & Julien Le Duigou

  3. École Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay, LURPA, F.91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Nabil Anwer

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada

    Christophe Danjou

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Conceptualization: Jinhua Xiao, Benoît Eynard, and Nabil Anwer; data curation: Jinhua Xiao, Alexandre Durupt, and Julien Le Duigou; formal analysis: Jinhua Xiao, Benoît Eynard, and Christophe Danjou; funding acquisition: Jinhua Xiao; investigation: Jinhua Xiao, Nabil Anwer, and Christophe Danjou; methodology: Jinhua Xiao, Benoît Eynard, and Alexandre Durupt; project administration: Benoît Eynard and Nabil Anwer; resources: Benoît Eynard and Nabil Anwer; software: Jinhua Xiao and Christophe Danjou; supervision: Benoît Eynard and Nabil Anwer; validation: Benoît Eynard and Nabil Anwer; visualization: Jinhua Xiao and Alexandre Durupt; writing—original draft preparation: Jinhua Xiao; writing—review and editing: Jinhua Xiao and Benoît Eynard.

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Xiao, J., Eynard, B., Anwer, N. et al. STEP/STEP-NC-compliant manufacturing information of 3D printing for FDM technology. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 112, 1713–1728 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06539-5

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