Application of additive manufacturing and 3D printing techniques allows for manufacturing of honeycombs with arbitrary shape and wall thickness, opening the way for optimizing the mechanical and physical properties for specific applications.
The design of the coil case includes clearance gaps (∼7 10 mm) to allow for manufacturing tolerances and WP adjustment.
This allows for manufacture of variations of the proposed mechanism within feasible manufacturing tolerances and costs.
Consequently, accelerated development of pultrusion process, allowing for the manufacturing of geometrically complex profiles is promoted.
In contrary to subtractive processes, in which an object is fabricated by removing of a large volume of starting material, the AM technologies, as the name suggests, are characterised by adding material, thus allowing for the manufacturing of intricate geometries and efficient use of material [ 58, 73].
An adopted SMC process allowing for the manufacturing of continuous fibre reinforced SMC was successfully implemented.
But ideally, manufacturing would be democratized as well, and allow for home fabrication of the casing and perhaps pre-assembly of the more difficult parts of the device.
In addition, the mainstreaming of 3D printing equipment in European kitchens, allows for home-manufacturing of tailored food, using ingredients ordered and provided from individuals or companies from all over the world.
Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"–manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.
In this paper, this aspect is addressed with reference to additive manufacturing, which allows for the fabrication of unique pieces even in case of complex and freeform geometries.
