Supply chain optimization with additive manufacturing (in the Danish Ministry of Defence) Industrial PhD project
The project is about investigating the possibilities of introducing additive manufacturing into the Danish Ministry of Defence’ (DMoD) supply chain.
At the moment, the AM initiatives are locally driven and there is a limited awareness of other in-house AM endeavours along with scarce knowledge sharing. Therefore, the first step is to map printers and capabilities throughout the DMoD and build a network to induce and share knowledge. The end goal is an organisation to support the AM usage that can utilise the capabilities and supply the troops.
AM have limitation that needs to be handled before the end goal is fully realistic. Supporting the progress is a NATO project where the aim of the project is to solve some of the limitations of AM to enable the use of AM in NATO operations and in the NATO nations.
Print capacity
There are various printers in the Danish Ministry of Defence. The printers are all FDM and mostly desktop printers such as Ultimaker 2 Extended+, Ultimake S5, Zortrax M300, Raise 3D Pro 2 Plus, Creality Ender 3 and Makerbot Method X along with a Stratasys F170 (not desktop).
This PhD project was undertaken by Jeppe Foshammer and defended at SDU on 10 august 2023.