From Parts Data to Print Decisions: Scaling Additive Manufacturing in the OIB
Customer Challenge
The Army seeks an AI-enabled decision support tool for additive manufacturing (AM) engineers to speed parts identification for printing. Currently, Army AM engineers spend innumerable hours manually searching the Army’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems to review technical/logistics data to determine part printability.
Innovative Solution
For this effort, Illumination Works is providing our Linnea™ solution for part printability recommendations. In its end state, Linnea will integrate seamlessly into Army PLM systems. Illumination Works’ Linnea is an enabling technology for the Army that will greatly improve the productivity of AM engineers by automating much of their AM part candidacy analysis pipeline.
Benefits/Outcomes
- Apply machine learning techniques to help automate the current manual process of identifying parts for AM
- Automatically process technical and logistics data
- Engineer relevant data features
- Apply artificial intelligence/machine learning classifiers
- Predict the suitability of parts for AM
Toolbox
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
- Computer vision
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
Business Value
- Tremendous cost savings across the Department of Defense (DoD) by automating the current manual process of identifying parts for 3D printing
- Improved operational readiness via automation that enables identification of a greater pool of parts for AM
- Industry agnostic automation for manufacturing parts, including utility, construction, medical, and transportation
Domain Expertise
- Engineering data and CAD models
