Blockchain-empowered sustainable manufacturing and product lifecycle management in industry 4.0: A survey

J Leng, G Ruan, P Jiang, K Xu, Q Liu, X Zhou… - … and sustainable energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainability is a pressing need, as well as an engineering challenge, in the modern world.
Developing smart technologies is a critical way to ensure that future manufacturing systems …

Plastic recycling in additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review and opportunities for the circular economy

FAC Sanchez, H Boudaoud, M Camargo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid technical evolution of additive manufacturing (AM) enables a new path to a
circular economy using distributed recycling and production. This concept of Distributed …

Material issues in additive manufacturing: A review

S Singh, S Ramakrishna, R Singh - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2017 - Elsevier
Today, Additive manufacturing (AM) is a well known technology for making real three
dimensional object, with metal or ceramic or plastic or thereby combination, which may be …

Blockchain-secured smart manufacturing in industry 4.0: A survey

J Leng, S Ye, M Zhou, JL Zhao, Q Liu… - … on Systems, Man …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is a new generation of secure information technology that is fueling business
and industrial innovation. Many studies on key enabling technologies for resource …

Makerchain: A blockchain with chemical signature for self-organizing process in social manufacturing

J Leng, P Jiang, K Xu, Q Liu, JL Zhao, Y Bian… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The growth of personalized demands requires socialized resources to timely self-organize
themselves with crowd intelligence for co-creating open architecture products. This social …

Polymer recycling in an open-source additive manufacturing context: Mechanical issues

FAC Sanchez, H Boudaoud, S Hoppe… - Additive Manufacturing, 2017 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the low recycling rate of polymers is still a challenge to humankind due to
energy, economic and logistical issues. In the context of additive manufacturing, there is an …

Closed loop supply chain network for local and distributed plastic recycling for 3D printing: a MILP-based optimization approach

P Santander, FAC Sanchez, H Boudaoud… - Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research and initiatives increasingly propose a new approach, based on distributed
plastic recycling for open-source (OS) 3D printing technologies, as a way to deal with the …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing: Making an innovative technology widely accessible through makerspaces and outsourced services

A Kantaros, O Diegel, D Piromalis, G Tsaramirsis… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper looks into the emerging trends of makerspaces and outsourced 3D printing
services, and examines the natural progression between them. Also, by presenting survey …

A review of digital manufacturing-based hybrid additive manufacturing processes

L Chong, S Ramakrishna, S Singh - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract From Germany's Industry 4.0 mission to Made in China 2025 and Make in India
mission to British Factory of the Future in 2050, digital manufacturing (DM) is promoting in …

3D printing and implementation of digital twins: Current trends and limitations

A Kantaros, D Piromalis, G Tsaramirsis… - Applied System …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fabricating objects with desired mechanical properties by utilizing 3D printing methods can
be expensive and time-consuming, especially when based only on a trial-and-error test …