OptAd

The employment of additive manufacturing (AM), commonly called 3D printing, in the industrial sector has been growing for many years. As the technology matures, it is expected that its use will become widespread and substitute other established forms of production. This project is constructed to enable a truly sustainable design, deployment and operation of a production system based on AM principles and electrification. This can only be achieved if spatially distributed AM plants can be jointly optimized in their jobshop schedules considering the specific electric energy consumption patterns of 3D printing and transportation needs (which might be related to an electrified fleet) to build a final product. The optimization shall be carried out in an energy-centric manner where the AM units need to consider the expected electricity production from renewable intermittent sources. This project is a joint enterprise of two research groups from LUT and one from Aalto.

2026

2029