EXPLOITATION OF POTENTIALS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN IDEATION WORKSHOPS
Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Timo Richter, Hagen Watschke, Felix Schumacher, Thomas Vietor
Series: ICDC
Section: PROTOTYPING FOR CREATIVITY
Page(s): 354-361
ISBN: 9781912254071
Abstract
Additive manufacturing processes have become a viable alternative to conventional manufacturing for end-use products. However, designers are not sufficiently familiar with its potentials like reducing cost and time due to tool-less production or realisation of new design features. Thus, especially in traditional industries like in the automotive sector these potentials are untapped resulting from three hindering factors: Firstly, knowledge concerning potentials of additive manufacturing is lacking. Secondly, designers’ creativity is blocked as they are not able to detach from established solutions. And, thirdly, organizational boundary conditions do not allow to break out of established processes. This paper presents six hypotheses on how to enable companies to implement AM into established design processes while overcoming the identified hindering factors. Based on these hypotheses, a concept for ideation workshops is proposed and demonstrated on an example from the automotive industry.
Keywords: design for additive manufacturing, knowledge based engineering, ideation