MATERIAL OPTIMIZATION DURING MEDICAL COMPONENTS DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING PROCESS USING VALUE ENGINEERING

Sunil Kumar Tiwari, Sarang Pande, Santosh M. Bobade

Abstract: Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique provides a hi-tech tool for making solid free form products. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is one of the AM technique which uses wide range of materials for making end use products. SLS process has potential to produce superior quality product at low cost and in shorter lead times which gives more customer delights. At present limited materials are accessible with very high cost that impedes increasing number of applications of SLS. To make this technology feasible suitable selection of material and fabrication of product which suit the requirement of application economically is very important. Value Engineering (VE) technique is used to optimize the material during medical components/ devices development using SLS process and it would benefits in producing high strength parts with good aesthetic quality which satisfying the customer needs. VE aims to identify unnecessary cost associated with any product, material, parts, component, system or service by analysis of functions and efficiently eliminating them without impairing the quality and functional reliability and provides optimality

Keywords: Biomedical, Medical Devices, Selective Laser Sintering, Material Properties, Value Engineering,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0511033