ABSTRACT
The Rapid Manufacturing Advice System (RAMDS) presented herein is intended to ‘recommend’ the most appropriate route for creating a final fully-functional part through additive manufacture. The main difference with previous selection systems consists in the concurrent evaluation of several manufacturing techniques from a set of initial user defined input parameters. The final goal is not the selection of prototyping processes, but the assessment of RM alternatives as feasible manufacturing options for end-use parts. This requires a series of steps in order to assure the feasibility of the system’s proposal.
