Incremental Manufacturing: Model-based part design and process planning for Hybrid Manufacturing of multi-material parts

Incremental Manufacturing is a hybrid-manufacturing concept where standardized base workpieces are made in large volume production first and finalized by additive manufacturing. The concept reduces the need for product-specific molds and tools, enabling a multi-scale production - the flexibility to scale product variants and sizes as well as production volume. This paper presents an approach to reduce the arising complexity from the new design freedom of Incremental Manufacturing in an early component design phase. For this manufacturing, material and process models will be merged to support the multi-dimensional decision-making process during the design phase of multi-material parts for Incremental Manufacturing.