Measuring and Monitoring of wire feed rate for 3D Printing

This research work presents a novel method for evaluating the wire feed rate for Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printers within the framework of Industry 4.0. The method measures the pace at which 3D printers deposit layers of material. It has been decided to design and calibrate an automatic wire detection and measuring (AWDM) wire feed rate device. The data is then sent by WIFI to the ThingSpeak cloud platform, allowing users to remotely monitor the wire feed rate using their mobile phones as well. The signal that is created by the AWDM device is fed to NodeMCU, which is then fed to ThingSpeak. In addition to this, it is possible to incorporate it without any problems into the existing industrial configuration of FDM printers, and it offers a solution that is inexpensive, nonintrusive, and portable.