TY - JOUR A1 - Ochs, Dennis A1 - Wehnert, Kira-Kristin A1 - Hartmann, Jürgen A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - Sustainable Aspects of a Metal Printing Process Chain with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) JF - Procedia CIRP N2 - Production companies are getting more and more aware of the relevancy of energy costs and the environmental impact of their manufactured products. Hence, the knowledge about the energy intensity of new process technologies as metal printing becomes increasingly crucial. Therefore, data about the energy intensity of entire process chains allow a detailed assessment of the life cycle costs and environmental impact of metal printed parts. As metal printing with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is applied from rapid prototyping to serial manufacturing processes more and more, sustainability data are useful to support a valid scale-up scenario and energetic improvements of the 3D-printing machinery as well as peripheral aggregates used in the process chain. The contribution aims to increase the transparency of the LPBF process chain in terms of its energy consumption. Therefore a generalized model to assess sustainability aspects of metal printed parts is derived. For this purpose, the LPBF process chain with the essential pre-, main- and post-processes is evaluated regarding its energy intensity. Here, the sub-processes, for example wet and dry cleaning of the printer, sieving of the metal powder or sand-blasting of the part are analyzed as well as the main printing process. Based on the derived experimental data from an installed, industry-like process chain, a model is created, which tends to generalize the experimental findings to evaluate other metal printed parts and process chain variants in terms of their energy intensity. Y1 - 2021 UR - 10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.163 VL - 98 SP - 613 EP - 618 PB - Elsevir ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Miller, Eddi A1 - Schmitt, Anna-Maria A1 - Kaupp, Tobias A1 - Batres, Rafael A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - A Peak Shaving Approach in Manufacturing Combining Machine Learning and Job Shop Scheduling T2 - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering N2 - Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) plays an important role in highly autonomous manufacturing systems with multiple machine tools. The necessary Numerical Control (NC) programs to manufacture the parts are mostly written in standardized G-code. An a priori evaluation of the energy demand of CNC-based machine processes opens up the possibility of scheduling multiple jobs according to balanced energy consumption over a production period. Due to this, we present a combined Machine Learning (ML) and Job-Shop-Scheduling (JSS) approach to evaluate G-code for a CNC-milling process with respect to the energy demand of each G-command. The ML model training data are derived by the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method facing the main G-code operations G00, G01, and G02. The resulting energy demand for each job enhances a JSS algorithm to smooth the energy demand for multiple jobs, as peak power consumption needs to be avoided due to its expense. Y1 - 2025 SN - 9783031774287 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77429-4_59 SN - 2195-4356 SP - 535 EP - 543 PB - Springer Nature Switzerland CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmitt, Anna-Maria A1 - Miller, Eddi A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - Energy Prediction for CNC Machines Using G-Code Evaluation, Machine Learning and a Real-World Training Part T2 - 2025 11th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE) Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMRE64970.2025.10976308 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Miller, Eddi A1 - Schmitt, Anna-Maria A1 - Kaupp, Tobias A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Job Shop Scheduling in Robotic Cells: Handling Disruptions Effectively T2 - 2025 11th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE) Y1 - 2025 UR - 10.1109/ICMRE64970.2025.10976238 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Miller, Eddi A1 - Ceballos, Hector A1 - Engelmann, Bastian A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Batres, Rafael A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - Industry 4.0 and International Collaborative Online Learning in a Higher Education Course on Machine Learning JF - 2021 Machine Learning-Driven Digital Technologies for Educational Innovation Workshop Y1 - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wehnert, Kira-Kristin A1 - Schäfer, S A1 - Schmitt, Jan A1 - Schiffler, Andreas T1 - C7. 4 Application of Laser Line Scanners for Quality Control during Selective Laser Melting (SLM) T2 - SMSI 2021-System of Units and Metreological Infrastructure Y1 - 2021 SP - 298 EP - 299 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lang, Silvio A1 - Engelmann, Bastian A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - A simplified machine learning product carbon footprint evaluation tool JF - Cleaner Environmental Systems N2 - On the way to climate neutrality manufacturing companies need to assess the Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of their products as a basis for emission reduction measures. The evaluate this so-called Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) life cycle analysis as a comprehensive method is applicable, but means great effort and requires interdisciplinary knowledge. Nevertheless, assumptions must still be made to assess the entire supply chain. To lower these burdens and provide a digital tool to estimate the PCF with less input parameter and data, we make use of machine learning techniques and develop an editorial framework called MINDFUL. This contribution shows its realization by providing the software architecture, underlying CO2 factors, calculations and Machine Learning approach as well as the principles of its user experience. Our tool is validated within an industrial case study. KW - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law KW - Environmental Science (miscellaneous) KW - Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment KW - Environmental Engineering Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100187 SN - 2666-7894 VL - 13 PB - Elsevier BV ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Miller, Eddi A1 - Barthelme, Christine A1 - Schiffler, Andreas A1 - Engelmann, Bastian A1 - Schmitt, Jan T1 - Internationalisierung in Pandemiezeiten, technische Möglichkeiten, Lehr- und Forschungskonzepte mal anders gedacht JF - FHWS Science Journal N2 - Eines der zentralen strategischen Ziele unserer Hochschule ist die Internationalisierung, sowie der »internationalisation@home«. Als die weltweite Corona-Pandemie die Präsenzlehre und -forschung ebenso wie den internationalen Austausch von Studierenden und Forschenden zu Beginn 2020 quasi zum Erliegen brachte wurden die Rufe nach digitalen Angeboten im internationalen Bereich schnell laut. Vor diesem Hintergrund reagierte der »Deutsche Akademische Auslandsdienst (DAAD)« mit der kurzfristig ins Leben gerufenen Förderlinie »International Virtual Academic Collaboration« (IVAC), um internationale Hochschulkooperationen und weltweite Mobilität unter digitalen Vorzeichen strategisch zu gestalten und auszubauen [1]. KW - internationalisierung KW - covid KW - corona Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-20035 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-19389 SN - 2196-6095 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 143 EP - 146 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wehnert, Kira-Kristin A1 - Ochs, Dennis A1 - Schmitt, Jan A1 - Hartmann, Jürgen A1 - Schiffler, Andreas T1 - Reducing Lifecycle Costs due to Profile Scanning of the Powder Bed in Metal Printing JF - Procedia CIRP 98 N2 - First time right is one major goal in powder based 3D metal printing. Reaching this goal is driven by reducing life cycle costs for quality measures, to minimize scrap rate and to increase productivity under optimal resource efficiency. Therefore, monitoring the state of the powder bed for each printed layer is state of the art in selective laser melting. In the most modern approaches the quality monitoring is done by computer vision systems working with an interference on trained neural networks with images taken after exposure and after recoating. There are two drawbacks of this monitoring method: First, the sensor signals - the image of the powder bed - give no direct height information. Second, the application of this method needs to be trained and labeled with reference images for several cases. The novel approach presented in this paper uses a laser line scanner attached to the recoating machine. With this new concept, a direct threshold measure can be applied during the recoating process to detect deviations in height level without prior knowledge. The evaluation can be done online during recoating and feedback to the controller to monitor each individual layer. Hence, in case of deviations the location in the printing plane is an inherent measurement and will be used to decide which severity of error is reported. The signal is used to control the process, either by starting the recoating process again or stopping the printing process. With this approach, the sources of error for each layer can be evaluated with deep information to evaluate the cause of the error. This allows a reduction of failure in the future, which saves material costs, reduces running time of the machine life cycle phase in serial production and results in less rework for manufactured parts. Also a shorter throughput time per print job results, which means that the employee can spent more time to other print jobs and making efficient use of the employee’s work force. In summary, this novel approach will not only reduce material costs but also operating costs and thus optimize the entire life cycle cost structure. The paper presents a first feasibility and application of the described approach for test workpieces in comparison to conventional monitoring systems on an EOS M290 machine. Y1 - 2021 UR - 10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.175 VL - 98 SP - 684 EP - 689 PB - Elsevir ER -