Additive Manufacturing Applications for Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction

Abstract

This paper will describe how quality can be improved and cost reduced by implementing in house computer aided design (CAD) and additive manufacturing. Utilizing features that are only possible through additive manufacturing will demonstrate how far a single department’s specific design and prototyping have increased up time and reduced cost. With the utilization of chemical resistant materials for parts use inside and around processing environments with sensor guards and mounts and tooling, these methods have allowed us to go outside of what was normally considered as possible countermeasures to equipment and quality issues.