Online Monitoring and Control FDM Devices: Study

Digitization is the key word of the term Industrial Revolution of fourth generation. Digitization in industrial enterprises makes it possible to examine various influences on production processes without the necessary entry into real production. Thanks to technologies, that are part of the digitization of manufacturing enterprises such as, augmented reality, virtual reality, additive manufacturing, digital twin, and artificial intelligence, we can monitor selected parameters without interfering with the production process. The funds spent, ensuring the transformation of a traditional enterprise into a digital enterprise, ultimately save production costs. The concept of digitization within industrial enterprises has taken on much greater dimension and importance in connection with events such as COVID 19, which has affected everyday life all over the Earth. At that moment, many companies realized, what a great advantage digitalization of the entire production is. The pressure of events and economic influences led to the accelerated adoption of digitization and intelligent automation. Introduction of digital technologies ultimately makes it possible to use resources, which are entering the production process, more efficiently and intensively. The advantage of digitization of production is increasing material productivity, and the optimization of input production costs. The implementation of artificial intelligence tools in production enables remote control of production in additive manufacturing. Advancing digitalization is big change in many fields such as aviation, medicine, engineering, and automotive industry. Main and necessary pillar are the employees with their skills, knowledge, and years of experiences. Additive manufacturing is field with great potential for the future. There is a big space for new innovations, process improvement and also for quality monitoring. This study is reporting about the online monitoring and control for Fused Deposition Model devices.