Parameter Optimization In 3D Printer Recycle Machine

Mustafar, Ahmad Al Idrisi (2018) Parameter Optimization In 3D Printer Recycle Machine. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

3D printing technology has evolves rapidly to becoming one of the most postulate method in manufacturing process.Commonly,standard manufacturing process which is subtractive that produces a lot of waste opposite to 3D printing technology is way friendly to the environment. Application of additive manufacturing method in 3D printing leads to less or no wasted materials.For this promising technology, it still developing especially when there are lots of open source medium for people to access and discover the 3D printing technology.There is always a problem in every human-made creation.As for 3D printing, consumption of plastic materials has significantly increased due to high demand in market.In order to minimize the negative impact of plastic waste to the environment,a machine of recycle 3D printing has been made and a study on parameter optimization on 3D printer recycle machine have been done.By using Minitab software, analysis has been made on the factor of parameter of recycle 3D printing. From that analysis,Taguchi method suggests some of experiment to do and give an optimal value for each parameter that need to optimize in extruding operation.After the optimal value obtained, percentage of error diameter of new filament has been calculated.Analysis of extruded filament was done for every 30cm with minimum of three repetitions.In comparison of the new extruding filament and original filament show that some minor difference of the mechanical properties by using tensile test method. Percentage of error for diameter of filament indicates 1.77mm diameter with 1.14% as the lowest error while diameter of 1.82mm with 4.00% as the highest error.This show that optimization on 3D printer recycle machine has done by get the percentage of error below than 5% and it gives hope for future improvement in this project of recycling waste of ABS polymer.

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