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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Digital manufacturing"”.
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Digital Manufacturing Techniques for Microfluidic Device Fabrication
… control of fluids. Traditional methods of manufacturing microfluidic devices are based on semiconductor microfabrication technology. Specifically, a combination of photolithography and soft lithography have been used where devices are built by molding a transparent, elastomeric, and …
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Surface space : digital manufacturing techniques and emergent building material
… to use polymeric material. Incorporating both digital and hand based tools, the project will focus on the process of casting and molding polyurethane based rubber. Instead of looking at the macro level of a building, the thesis should be viewed as a research based project that investigates …
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Customized digital manufacturing : concept to construction methods across varying product scales
… changing through the extensive adoption of digital design, manufacture and assembly tools. Customized assemblies are paired and recombined to create unique spatial enclosures. These assemblies themselves contain of a hierarchy of individual parts, both generic and unique. It is therefore …
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Evaluating the role of reference architectures in designing low-cost digital manufacturing systems
A low-cost digital manufacturing system is a special type of digital system, that consists of a combination of low-cost components and meets entry-level digitalisation needs of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). This thesis concerns the design, design extension and integration …
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Fashion Innovation System Policy: Probing regional innovation systems to optimise digital manufacturing for fashion designers
… This study investigates the adoption of apparel digital manufacturing (ADM), specifically utilising 3D design software, as a strategic response to the costing challenges faced by Designer Fashion Enterprises (DFEs) to mitigate the risk of business failures. However, the prevalence of innovation …
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Exploring the evolution of additive manufacturing industry : a study of stakeholder requirements and architectural analysis of Desktop three-dimensional printing Segment
… initiative designed to move America into the new digital era, this time the digital manufacturing era. An instrument pillar of the digital manufacturing is 3D printing, a 30-year technology traditionally found in industrial settings but have since evolved rapidly and extended beyond those …
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Water-based digital design and fabrication : material, product, and architectural explorations in printing chitosan and its composites
Conventional digital design tools display little integration between shape formation and materialization resulting in disassociation between shape and matter. Contrarily, in the natural world shape and matter are structured through growth and adaptation, resulting in highly tunable and …
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Cost-effective Design of Automotive Framing Systems Using Flexibility and Reconfigurability Principles
Manufacturing enterprises are entering an era of new challenges where manufacturing needs to compete in a global economy with open and unpredicted market changes. Manufacturing facilities need to possess a high degree of flexibility, enabling mass customization of production. Reconfigurable …
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Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies
… investigates the potential applications of digital manufacturing technologies in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, …
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Fibrous tectonics
… of the current computational capacities and new digital tools in manufacturing, composites are just beginning to re-situate themselves in the field of architecture. Efficiency and durability coupled with a load bearing capacity make a strong case for the use of composites as a primary building …
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Integer Programming for Discrete Optimization of the Agile Supply Chain Configuration Problem
In order to keep manufacturing operations in lockstep with current market trends, businesses must continue to incorporate agility into their supply chains. This includes the ability to assess and select new suppliers quickly. The Digital Manufacturing Market (DMM) and Manufacturing Service …
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Leather Futures: How leather can be used as a sustainable material of choice for the future
… for sustainable future consumer experiences and manufacturing. This investigation updates and re-evaluates old practices of handling leather and presents modern practices using alternative tanning methods, digital manufacturing and upcycling leather wastes into bonded collagenic fibres which …
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The influence of internet-enabled devices on manufacturing: collaboration and cybersecurity
The manufacturing industry must adapt to the advances in technology that the wealth of Internet-enabled devices permeating society in recent years has both heralded and effected. As the Internet allows people to work together from remote locations, manufacturing has become increasingly globalized …
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Additive Manufacturing Organic Neuromorphic Devices and Neural Networks
… a need to develop easily adaptable and scalable digital fabrication techniques. In this thesis, a study of low-cost additive manufacturing techniques to fabricating neuromorphic OECTs and neural networks is carried out. Three major findings are presented in this thesis. First, it is shown that …
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Ingenious Adaptations: The Development of the Professionally-Made Architectural Model in Britain, 1883-2020
… and 1980s; and the introduction of advanced digital manufacturing technologies from the 1990s to the present day. This thesis further argues that the notion of adaptability – emerging from the combined agency of the modelmaker’s imaginative and ingenious intentions and the intrinsic …
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Matters of Illuminance - Transforming Light into Material Artifacts
… them into three-dimensional forms. It uses digital manufacturing methods to create the three-dimensional forms out of glass. The aim of this work is 1) to construct a methodology for recording light’s interaction with architecture as three-dimensional forms 2) to produce glass sculptures …
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Fabricação digital para a produção de barracas das festas de largo de Salvador: experimentações na Festa da Conceição da Praia
… for the "Festas de Largo de Salvador", guided by digital manufacturing (DM) and mass customization (MC), in collaboration with the stallholders. The model is based on a set of structured elements typical of the stallholder community. The doctoral research considers and performs experiments with …
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Digitally enabled surface function modification for wide area applications
The aim of this work is to produce a digital manufacturing strategy to tailor surface wettability and control fluid deposition to the modified surfaces. The studies combine surface function modification by digitally enabled additive coatings with wide-area laser processing. Nano and femtosecond …
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Investigating the Hydration and Disintegration Mechanisms of Film-Coated Pharmaceutical Tablets
… in order to assist the predictive modelling and digital manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets.
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originalMachines : developing tools and methods for object-oriented mechatronics
The digital revolution has fundamentally changed our lives by giving us new ways to express ourselves through digital media. For example, accessible multimedia content creation tools allow people to instantiate their ideas and share them easily. However, most of these outcomes only exist on-screen …
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