A manufacturing system is disclosed herein. The manufacturing system includes one or more stations, a monitoring platform, and a control module. Each station of the one or more stations is configured to perform at least one step in a multi-step manufacturing process for a product. The monitoring platform is configured to monitor progression of the product throughout the multi-step manufacturing process. The control module is configured to dynamically adjust processing parameters of each step of the multi-step manufacturing process to achieve a desired final quality metric for the product.

Various methods and systems are provided for mixing and dispensing viscous materials for the creation of additive structures. As one example, during a mixing and dispensing operation with a mixing and dispensing head of a multi-dimensional printing apparatus, linear movement of a mixing rod positioned within a mixing chamber of the mixing and dispensing head, at least along a central axis of the mixing chamber, is adjusted based on an operating condition of the printing apparatus and dispensing of mixed liquids from the mixing and dispensing head is stopped by stopping one or more pumps fluidly coupled to the mixing chamber and linearly moving the mixing rod upward and away from a dispensing nozzle of the mixing and dispensing head.

Various methods and systems are provided for mixing and dispensing viscous materials for the creation of additive structures. As one example, in a multi-dimensional printing apparatus, one or more materials flow into a mixing chamber via one or more corresponding inlet channels, a rotational speed of a mixing rod positioned within a mixing chamber is adjusted based on a volume of the mixing chamber and a flow rate of the one or more materials into the mixing chamber, the mixing rod including a set of straight cutaways extending along a length of a bottom portion of the mixing rod and forming flat side surfaces of the mixing rod; and a mixture of the one or more materials is dispensed from the mixing chamber via a dispensing nozzle of a mixing and dispensing head.

Extruder (1) for a 3D printer, comprising at least one outer nozzle (2) and a conveying worm (3) for feeding liquid and/or plasticized starting material (4) into the interior chamber (21) of the outer nozzle (2), wherein an inner nozzle (5) is arranged in the interior chamber (21) of the outer nozzle (2), wherein the interior chamber (51) of the inner nozzle (5) is connected to the interior chamber (21) of the outer nozzle (2) via at least one duct (52, 52a, 52b) which is continuous for the starting material (4), and wherein the inner nozzle (5) is mounted such that it can be moved linearly along the longitudinal axis (2a) of the outer nozzle (2). A 3D printer (100) having the extruder (1) and means (8) for generating a relative movement between the extruder (1) and a construction surface (101), on which the object (102) to be manufactured is produced.

A system and method for reducing draw resonance of plastic material in the molten state, so-called melt, leaving an extrusion group of a plant for the production of plastic film, includes at least one thermostatically-controlled cylinder, having an embracement angle, of the melt on the cylinder, adjustable on the basis of the process rate, i.e. the linear movement speed of the plastic film, and/or on the basis of the temperature measured in the proximity of or in correspondence with the clamping area of the melt in a thermoforming, calibration and cooling group included in the plant and positioned downstream of the system.

Disclosed is an extruder and a method for extruding cord reinforced tire components, wherein the extruder includes an extruder head with a die and a cord guide, wherein the die is provided with a cross sectional profile that defines a first cross section of the extrusion material in the die, wherein the cross sectional profile has a profile height, wherein the cord guide is arranged for guiding the cords into the die at a cord entry height, wherein the extruder head is provided with first heating elements, wherein the extruder comprises a control unit that is operationally connected to the first heating elements for generating an adjustable height temperature gradient in the extrusion material across the profile height to control swelling of the extrusion material relative to the cord entry height from the first cross section to a second cross section after the extrusion material leaves the die.

Provided is a three-dimensional modeling material used for a fused deposition modeling three-dimensional printer. The three-dimensional modeling material has a multilayer structure and contains, in respective different layers, a thermoplastic resin (A) having a shear storage elastic modulus (G) of 1.0010.sup.7 Pa or less as measured at 100 C. and 1 Hz and a thermoplastic resin (B) having a shear storage elastic modulus (G) of more than 1.0010.sup.7 Pa as measured at 100 C. and 1 Hz.

There is described a method and system for regulating an extrusion process by obtaining a first thickness at a first position along an extrudate as material is extruded through a die gap of a die; comparing the first thickness with an expected thickness of the extrudate at the first position to obtain a value for an error, the expected thickness modeled in real-time using a size of the die gap as input; and varying the size of the die gap when the error exceeds a threshold to compensate for the error. There is also described a method and system for determining an expected thickness of a material during an extrusion process.

An extruder for extrusion of material, the extruder comprising a screw (110), a barrel (120), a controller, and a force sensor wherein at least a section (110b) of the screw (110) is conical and wherein at last a section (120b) of the barrel (120) is conical wherein the extruder (100) is adapted for displacing the screw (110) in an axial direction of the screw (110), such that by an axial displacement of the screw with regard to the barrel the size of a leakage gap (180) between the screw (110) and the barrel (120) is modified, wherein the extruder is adapted for actively obtaining operational characteristics and wherein the controller (160) is adapted for controlling the axial displacement of the screw (110) as a function of the operational characteristics of which at least one is an upward force of the material or an upward force on the screw.

An extruder for extrusion of material, the extruder comprising a screw (110), a barrel (120), a controller, and a force sensor wherein at least a section (110b) of the screw (110) is conical and wherein at last a section (120b) of the barrel (120) is conical wherein the extruder (100) is adapted for displacing the screw (110) in an axial direction of the screw (110), such that by an axial displacement of the screw with regard to the barrel the size of a leakage gap (180) between the screw (110) and the barrel (120) is modified, wherein the extruder is adapted for actively obtaining operational characteristics and wherein the controller (160) is adapted for controlling the axial displacement of the screw (110) as a function of the operational characteristics of which at least one is an upward force of the material or an upward force on the screw.