Optimization of a production process

US10456979B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Dirk Hartmann · Aßling, DE
• Philipp Emanuel Stelzig · Mindelheim, DE
• Utz Wever · Munich, DE
• Roland Gersch · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2019
• Expiry date: May 15, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method (1) for optimizing a production process for a component (20, 32) that is to be manufactured by additive manufacturing by means of simulation (2) of the production process (50) includes: a) ascertaining a position of the component (20, 32) in a production space that has been optimized according to a process optimization criterion (7); b) calculating displacements and/or stresses in the component (20, 32) that can be caused by the production process (50); c) ascertaining supporting structures (31) that counteract the displacements and/or stresses that have been optimized according to the process optimization criterion (7); and d) ascertaining at least a portion of the design of the component (20, 32) that has been optimized according to a component optimization criterion (8).