Abstract
The mass production of customized consumer goods or automatically generated structural components requires flexible and fully automated production processes able to materialize complex intelligent and knowledge based designed components. Layered manufacturing technologies (LMT), in the application of rapid manufacturing (RM) demonstrates high potential in a production chain where product design is generated automatically based on physical or personal requirements. The business unit design and manufacturing of TNO Science and Industry performs research on RM technologies, such as multi material inkjet printing, micro SLA, and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) in order to elevate these processes to a level where they can be used as true RM. This chapter presents the ongoing studies done on the SLS process, focusing on materials properties and reproducibility, RM texturing software, coatings for SLS parts, and design rules for SLS. The chapter also illustrates an example of the application of RM using intelligent design approach.
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