Quantitative sustainability assessment of metal additive manufacturing: A systematic review

Valentina Pusateri; Michael Zwicky Hauschild; Sami Kara; Constantinos Goulas; Stig Irving Olsen

doi:10.1016/j.cirpj.2023.12.005

Quantitative sustainability assessment of metal additive manufacturing: A systematic review

Valentina Pusateri^*, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Sami Kara, Constantinos Goulas, Stig Irving Olsen

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This paper presents a systematic critical review of quantitative sustainability assessment studies on metal additive manufacturing (MAM) with a life cycle perspective. Potential benefits and present challenges of MAM are also discussed. MAM showed the potential to reduce overall environmental impacts and be more cost-effective for parts with complex designs, high value and low production volumes, particularly for automotive and aerospace components. However, currently, conventional manufacturing appears to have a better sustainability performance than MAM for simple parts in industrial applications. Overall, MAM technology is still in development, even if there have been optimizations and method consolidations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-110
Number of pages	16
Journal	CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2023.12.005
Publication status	Published - Apr 2024

Keywords

3D-printing
Life cycle assessment
Metals
Rapid prototyping
Sustainable development goals

UN SDGs

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