Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Grant: EP/S016406/1, “Assuring the quality of design descriptions through the use of design configuration spaces”).

The sintering machine design case study was developed through the EPSRC “Large Volume, Multi-material High Speed Sintering Machine” project (EP/M020827/1) which ended in March 2018.

Other case studies were provided by our industry partners.