Additive Manufacturing: Design, Processes and Applications (eBook)

This book is a comprehensive guide to Additive Manufacturing (AM) product development. It offers a practical, reader-friendly approach to integrating the stages of product development. It covers current design and manufacturing strategies with a step-by-step approach, divided into three pillars: design, processes, and applications.

The book addresses the challenges hindering the industrial application of AM and provides a roadmap for its successful implementation. It discusses specific AM case studies and hybrid AM cell and production line setups, with the goal of achieving high-quality, low-cost products that are both flexible and productive. The book concludes with an examination of Industry 4.0 capabilities in decentralized manufacturing.

It is aimed to be read by researchers and professionals in industry who are interested in the development and potential of additive manufacturing, and will help to lead to wider adoption of AM.

Dr. Stavropoulos is the Head of Manufacturing Processes Modelling and Energy Efficiency, in the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at the University of Patras.  His main research interests are focused in the field of conventional, non-conventional and micro-manufacturing processes. 

Dr. Stavropoulos holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sussex, UK, a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece, and an M.B.A. from the HoU, Greece. He worked among others, as a Design Engineer (2000-2001) in Flowtronic Pumps Ltd, UK, Research Engineer (2001-2007) and Research Project Manager (2007-2009) in Laboratory of Manufacturing Systems & Automation and as WCP and Production Manager (2009-2014) at Crown Holdings Inc., Bevcan, Europe and Middle East Division. From 2014-2018, he was a Lecturer in Hellenic Air Force Academy, Department of Aeronautical Studies. Since 2018 he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras.

He has been involved and coordinated major industrial driven research projects in manufacturing in the context of the European Factories of the Future Research Association - EFFRA, as well as the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for Manufacturing - EIT M.  He is Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - IMEchE, since 2000, registered as Chartered Engineer (Reg. N.: 594894) in the Engineering Council, the Virtual Research Laboratory for a Knowledge Community in Production - VRL-KciP, since 2004, Member of NATO AVT -258 'Future of manufacturing for military applications' and Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Technical Chamber of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.

Dr. Stavropoulos has published more than 200 publications in refereed international scientific journals national scientific journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.