The digital thread, as a crucial technology for industrial digitization and the realization of
smart manufacturing, has garnered extensive attention and research in recent years …

Selecting a suitable file format for data exchange in additive manufacturing is fundamental
when designing these digital process chains. Within the scope of this investigation …

Future manufacturing systems will need to be versatile, intelligent, adaptable, and long-
lasting. Current systems cannot meet those criteria due to limitations in the data interface …

The Standard Template Library (STL) file is the most common data format for the description
of an additive manufacturing (AM) geometric model, but it has some disadvantages, such as …

Abstract 3D printing technology is considered as a promising, with applications in a wide
range of industries, including aerospace engineering, automotive, and biomedicine. Since …

Owing to the requirements of the AM system integration and standardization for an AM part
structure, the AM features and parameters need to extend their related data entities for better …

The Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines have gone through tremendous
upgrades along the years. However, conventional CNC machines could not find its place in …