**Author details**

Ingrid Paoletti<sup>1</sup> \* and Lorenzo Ceccon2

\*Address all correspondence to: Ingrid.paoletti@polimi.it

1 ABC Dept Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

2 Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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On the one hand, it is possible to hypothesize more cost-effective outcomes just by the reduced use of materials and working hours granted by the use of these techniques, as for instance topological optimization, form-finding and other computational design techniques. However, such an approach requires that the architects be aware of the underlying geometrical and physical issues and material properties, both in order to create the final shapes—e.g., as a result of constraint-based design approaches—and in view of 'guaranteeing' safety and durability/resilience. On the other hand, it is now possible for architects to regain a wide degree of autonomy (lost with industrialization) as to the creation of nonstandardized elements and custom 'materials', yet within an industrial mass-customized production process. In other words, while the immediate opportunities opened up by AM techniques seem linked just to faster and cheaper production of possibly unconventional and nonstandardized shapes, the greatest opportunities in AEC could lie in the freedom for architects to explore and imagine new languages and solutions that could be at the same time multiperformative in nature, considering multiple

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constraints and functions, and spatially inspiring.

\* and Lorenzo Ceccon2

1 ABC Dept Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

2 Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

\*Address all correspondence to: Ingrid.paoletti@polimi.it

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**Chapter 4**

Provisional chapter

**Production Management Fundamentals for Additive**

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.78680

The additive manufacturing (AM) is a new way to produce parts, which in the last years had a significant application in the traditional production environment, since it demonstrated its capability to produce parts without particular defects and with good mechanical properties. During the last two decades the AM was firstly used to produce polymers' products and after metals' products; this evolution made possible the breakthrough in the traditional industrial sectors such as the aerospace, the mechanical, and other related sectors. Nevertheless, the introduction of this technology in this context put on the table of the researchers and practitioners some questions about the management of this technology in a more complex context, characterized by the integration with other machines. Aim of this chapter is to present a literature review of the principal facets of the AM related to the field of operations management and trying to define a model to account

Keywords: additive manufacturing, operations management, integration, scheduling,

The industry is focusing its attention on additive manufacturing (AM) because it seems to be the way to realize a new industrial revolution. The first contribution about the AM appeared during the 90s [1] with a work by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); in this chapter, a first attempt to define the problem of the 3D manufacturing and its integration with the

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Production Management Fundamentals for Additive

**Manufacturing**

Manufacturing

Abstract

Marcello Fera, Roberto Macchiaroli, Fabio Fruggiero and Alfredo Lambiase

Marcello Fera, Roberto Macchiaroli, Fabio Fruggiero and Alfredo Lambiase

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production cost accounting

traditional way to produce the objects was described.

1. Introduction

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

the costs of production and to schedule the machine activity.

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

#### **Production Management Fundamentals for Additive Manufacturing** Production Management Fundamentals for Additive Manufacturing

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.78680

Marcello Fera, Roberto Macchiaroli, Fabio Fruggiero and Alfredo Lambiase Marcello Fera, Roberto Macchiaroli, Fabio Fruggiero and Alfredo Lambiase

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78680

#### Abstract

The additive manufacturing (AM) is a new way to produce parts, which in the last years had a significant application in the traditional production environment, since it demonstrated its capability to produce parts without particular defects and with good mechanical properties. During the last two decades the AM was firstly used to produce polymers' products and after metals' products; this evolution made possible the breakthrough in the traditional industrial sectors such as the aerospace, the mechanical, and other related sectors. Nevertheless, the introduction of this technology in this context put on the table of the researchers and practitioners some questions about the management of this technology in a more complex context, characterized by the integration with other machines. Aim of this chapter is to present a literature review of the principal facets of the AM related to the field of operations management and trying to define a model to account the costs of production and to schedule the machine activity.

Keywords: additive manufacturing, operations management, integration, scheduling, production cost accounting
