AM Product Sustainability

AM Product Cost Factors

• Material costs, machine amortization, labor, post-processing

• Break-even analysis for AM vs. traditional manufacturing

• Batch vs. Single-Piece Flow in AM

  • Batch printing advantages with non-motion printing methods (SLA, esp)

  • Low-cost systems have high rate of print failure; single-piece flow strategy, especially

  • Sequential printing & print queuing

• Bottlenecks and optimization in AM production workflows

AM Sustainability Metrics

• Energy consumption in AM vs. traditional methods

• Waste reduction, material reusability, and lifecycle analysis