Design for New Technologies

New technologies enable the transformation of products and services through a digital value chain. The emerging field of additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented opportunities for a  digital value chain and a new design freedom. AM enables the reinvention of products in a wide range of applications. However, designing production-ready AM parts requires a deep knowledge of the application, manufacturing processes, as well as advanced CAD design skills. To take advantage of AM, we develop new methods and end-to-end design automation tools that combine application, design, and process knowledge.  

Smart cameras offer great potential for identifying failures in a wide range of manual manufacturing and assembly tasks. Since manual assembly tasks become more complex, smart cameras can offer a four-eyes principle to avoid failures. We develop low-cost smart camera systems by using deep learning solutions that can quickly be trained to identify a large range of manual tasks.