Role and Scope of OEE to Improve Additive Manufacturing Processes in Biomedical Industries

In the fabrication of consumer parts, additive manufacturing is quickly gaining ground. Additive systems must reach a level of performance efficiency higher than they currently maintain in order to compete with conventional methods, which have had years to improve. The printing time is being reduced, and enhanced operation-level thinking is being applied to the situation, but there is currently no reliable improvement and information strategy. A method from traditional manufacturing focused on overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is suggested to accomplish the desired improvement. Integration of the OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) and additive manufacturing have the potential to start a new manufacturing trend in the manufacturing world of biomaterials. OEE, which measures the effectiveness of additive manufacturing as a whole, offers a way for improving this crucial emerging technology. Due to the lack of substantial information on the main cost drivers, particularly for metal additive-manufactured parts, the costs of additive-manufactured parts frequently appear to be extremely high in comparison to those of traditionally manufactured parts. Consequently, a lifecycle analysis of additively manufactured parts is required to comprehend and rank the cost drivers that represent the major contributors to unit prices and to provide a focus for upcoming cost-reduction initiatives for Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology. It will be simpler to defend the use of AM-manufactured parts if compared with the prices of AM with the opportunity costs associated with traditional manufacturing technologies. This study will discuss ongoing research and methods using a sample that was looked at.