Martin Baumers

TL;DR: A model of production cost for two different Additive Manufacturing systems used commercially for the manufacture of end-use metal parts is constructed, suggesting that the observed deposition rates are not sufficient for the adoption of EBM and DMLS in high volume manufacturing applications.

TL;DR: In this article, a research agenda is proposed to determine enablers and barriers for 3D printing to achieve a circular economy (CE) through design, supply chains, information flows, entrepreneurship, business models and education.

TL;DR: Additive manufacturing has profound economic, environmental, and security implications as discussed by the authors, but only limited quantitative data are available on how AM manufactured products compare to conventional manufactured ones in terms of energy and material consumption, transportation costs, pollution and waste, health and safety issues, as well as other environmental impacts over their full lifetime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative assessment of the electricity consumption of two major polymeric laser sintering (LS) platforms: the Sinterstation HiQ+HS from 3D Systems and the EOSINT P 390 from EOS GmbH.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of electricity consumption across several major AM technology variants, reporting specific energy consumption during the production of dedicated test parts (ranging from 61 to 4849 MJ per kg deposited).