Manufacturing – An Integration Platform

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Abstract

Manufacturing translates ideas, innovation and raw materials into products used by societies as a driving force for raising their living standards. To enhance the versatility of manufacturing processes and to fully integrate design and manufacturing for system optimization, research efforts at Cao’s group are rooted in advancing new flexible manufacturing processes, and in enhancing system optimization using the combination of the ICME (integrated computational materials engineering) and data-driven approaches. This talk will provide a quick overview of these activities and then focus on selected processes, i.e., rapid dieless forming for producing three-dimensional sheet parts without geometry-specific tooling, and metal-based powder-blown additive manufacturing. The integration of the fundamental process mechanics, techniques including machine learning to achieve effective and efficient predictions of material behavior compared to conventional methods, and process control paves the foundation for translating expertise and skills from the hands of a few to hands of many.

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Jian Cao, « Manufacturing – An Integration Platform », ESAFORM 2021 [Online], Online since 02 April 2021, connection on 19 March 2024. URL : https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=4425

Author

Jian Cao

Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Northwestern Initiative on Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Northwestern University

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Title
Manufacturing – An Integration Platform
Language
en
Author, co-author
Jian Cao,
Publication date
02 April 2021
Journal title
ESAFORM 2021
Copyright
CC-BY
Permanent URL
https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=4425

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Cao, J. (2021). Manufacturing – An Integration Platform. Paper presented at ESAFORM 2021. 24th International Conference on Material Forming, Liège, Belgique.