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Scientometric analysis and systematic review of smart manufacturing technologies applied to the 3D printing polymer material extrusion system

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As the 3D printing polymer material extrusion process is moving beyond niche markets and into large-scale manufacturing, still commercial systems employed by this process work in an open-loop environment where no feedback or control solution is provided from batch-to-batch production. This issue causes significant differences in part quality and generates lower production efficiency. However, there are substantial innovations in terms of smart manufacturing (SM) technologies, where the use of integrated smart sensors, the internet-of-things (IoT), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, that applied can let the systems evolve into a closed-loop higher rentability mass production process. This study investigates the available smart manufacturing technologies applied to evaluate the current state-of-the-art. This paper used scientometric analysis to analyze the most important contributions in this area. A systematic review aims to verify the results and understand the publications related to the polymer material extrusion process in detail. The analysis concludes that the most investigated aspect is the relation between the mechanical properties of materials and the high anisotropy presented in the process. The conclusions show that different sensors have been integrated, such as digital cameras, thermal cameras, thermocouples, and accelerometers, among others. They all obtain metrics and use data models to make supported decisions. Furthermore, AI algorithms have been applied to the process, and significant progress has been made to detect quality failures or part defects. Finally, as a substantial conclusion, it has been found that there is still no system in the market that can provide integral feedback control and process adjustment in real-time. This brings a positive opportunity to improve and achieve a fully smart manufacturing system in the 3D printing polymer material extrusion process.

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Abbreviations

SM:

Smart manufacturing

IoT:

Internet of Things

AI:

Artificial intelligence

ML:

Machine learning

AM:

Additive manufacturing

FDM:

Fused deposition modelling

FFF:

Fused filament fabrication

SMEs:

Small and medium enterprises

EPC:

Engineering process control

SPC:

Statistical process control

CPPS:

Cyber physical production system

PLA:

Polylactic acid

ABS:

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

SVM:

Supported vector machine

HUE:

Hue saturation lightness

ANN:

Artificial neural network

GBC:

Gradient boosting classifier

CNN:

Convolutional neural network

DML:

Distributed machine learning

ESN:

Echo state network

IMU:

Inertial mapping unit

GAN:

Generative adversarial network

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The authors acknowledge the financial support of this work by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Grant No. NSERC ALLRP 561048-20 Ahmad) and Alberta Innovates (Grant No. AB Innovat ADVANCE 202102739A) for funding this project. The authors express their sincere gratitude to all the team members of the Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing, Design, and Automation (LIMDA) group for sharing their thoughts and wisdom during the research.

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Castillo, M., Monroy, R. & Ahmad, R. Scientometric analysis and systematic review of smart manufacturing technologies applied to the 3D printing polymer material extrusion system. J Intell Manuf 35, 3–33 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-022-02049-1

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