Optimizing system reliability in additive manufacturing using PIML

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), an additive manufacturing process, is an emerging technology with issues in the uncertainty of mechanical properties and quality of printed parts. The consideration of all main and interaction effects when changing print parameters is not efficiently feasible, due to the existing stochastic dependencies. To address this issue, a machine learning method is developed to increase reliability by optimizing input parameters and predicting system responses. A structure of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is proposed that predicts a system response based on input parameters and observations of the system and similar systems. In this way, significant input parameters for a reliable system can be determined. The ANN structure is part of physics-informed machine learning and is pre-trained with Domain Knowledge (DK) to require less observations for full training. This includes theoretical knowledge of idealized systems and measured data. New predictions for a system response can be made without retraining but using further observations from the predicted system. Therefore, the predictions are available in real time, which is a precondition for the use in industrial environments. Finally, the application of the developed method to additive manufacturing and the increase in system reliability are discussed.

The data contains 400 experiments sampled using LHS, with each experiment is done 4 times. Print bed adhesion is measured. Data is formatted for use in python ML application.