Purpose

This paper aims to provide a case study focused on the substitution through selective laser melting of a part typically fabricated by traditional manufacturing.

Design/methodology/approach

To exploit the additive manufacturing (AM) advantages, the retrieving of the reconfiguration part data was provided, the process strategies by means of the interchange file handling and pre and post-processing were investigated and a re-design of the part was developed. Finally, the fabricated part was tested and analyzed.

Findings

Results claimed that a reconfiguration of the manufacturing framework plays an important role at each step of the process otherwise many AM benefits can be lost. In the paper, a set of recommendations, suggestions and hints regarding the implementation of AM for part substitutions is provided.

Research limitations/implications

Many aspects of the AM adoption, such as the production cost, energy consumption, sustainability and production volume, depend upon the geometry, batch size and other impactful factors, and thus they need to be studied in a case-by-case manner.

Practical implications

The proposed approaches have the concrete aim to address industrial resources toward the maximization of AM benefits in part substituting.

Originality/value

In this paper, the substitution of a part is fully undertaken from the early data collection to the manufactured part testing providing integrated approaches for each process step.

中文翻译：

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通过增材制造替代飞机零件：设计、模拟、制造和测试

目的

本文旨在提供一个案例研究，重点是通过选择性激光熔化替代通常由传统制造制造的零件。

设计/方法/方法

为了利用增材制造 (AM) 的优势，提供了重新配置零件数据的检索，研究了通过交换文件处理和预处理和后处理的工艺策略，并开发了零件的重新设计。最后，对制造的零件进行测试和分析。

发现

结果声称制造框架的重新配置在过程的每个步骤中都起着重要作用，否则可能会失去许多 AM 的好处。在本文中，提供了一组关于实施 AM 以进行零件替换的建议、建议和提示。

研究限制/影响

AM采用的许多方面，例如生产成本、能源消耗、可持续性和产量，取决于几何形状、批量大小和其他影响因素，因此需要逐案研究。

实际影响

所提出的方法的具体目标是解决工业资源，以实现部分替代的增材制造效益最大化。

原创性/价值

在本文中，从早期数据收集到制造零件测试，零件的替换完全进行，为每个过程步骤提供集成方法。