Model-Based Design of Additive Manufacturing Operations for Improved Management, Control and Compliance

In highly regulated industries production processes need to be well defined and standardised to ensure repeatable and reproducible quality in the process outputs. With the increase in smart and advanced manufacturing processes and methods being implemented in modern manufacturing systems this need is heightened due to the inherently complex nature of such manufacturing processes and methods. This paper investigates the application of a model-based systems engineering approach to designing and developing manufacturing operations allowing for improved management, control and compliance. The approach is applied to a powder feedstock reuse process and the system is modelled with a focus on defining processes, component interfaces and requirements traceability.