Additive manufacturing (Wiki on 3-D printing) is an emerging manufacturing technology that needs to be perfected before it can start delivering. It is a game changer. It is planned that AM printer will be kept in customer’s premises and will receive instructions head office over IoT (Wiki on IoT) for printing layer by layer and job will be done before the eyes of customer. It has been proposed in literature that for optimal performance of AM printing Taguchi Methods (Wiki on Taguchi Methods) can be used for parameter optimization. If AM is deployed for customization, then experiments (and generating required sampling points) is likely to be costly. We touch on few AM related organizational issues such as strategy (cost leader CL and differentiator DIFF). Finally we give few heuristics for scheduling job on AM machines. Additive manufacturing (Wiki on 3-D printing) is an emerging manufacturing technology that needs to be perfected before it can start delivering. It is a game changer. It is planned that AM printer will be kept in customer’s premises and will receive instructions head office over IoT (Wiki on IoT) for printing layer by layer and job will be done before the eyes of customer. It has been proposed in literature that for optimal performance of AM printing Taguchi Methods (Wiki on Taguchi Methods) can be used for parameter optimization. If AM is deployed for customization, then experiments (and generating required sampling points) is likely to be costly. We touch on few AM related organizational issues such as strategy (cost leader CL and differentiator DIFF). Finally we give few heuristics for scheduling job on AM machines.

Key Words:
Taguchi Methods, Internet of Things, and Additive Manufacturing