| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 417, 2025
2025 RAPDASA-RobMech-PRASA-AMI Conference: Bridging the Gap between Industry & Academia - The 26th Annual International RAPDASA Conference, joined by RobMech, PRASA and AMI, co-hosted by CSIR and Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 08003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 11 | |
| Section | Product Design and Development | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202541708003 | |
| Published online | 25 November 2025 | |
Resource efficiency in high-value material manufacturing with directed energy deposition
1 HH Industries, Somerset West, South Africa
2 Industrial Engineering Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
3 Centre for Materials Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
4 Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
5 eNtsa, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
* Corresponding author: devonh@hh.industries
Manufacturing high-value materials often yields excessive waste, high costs, and lengthy lead times using traditional methods. Directed Energy Deposition (DED) offers a sustainable alternative by reducing material waste, machining time, and tool consumption. This study demonstrates the cost and time efficiency benefits of DED over traditional manufacturing through an Inconel 625 case study. It was found that using DED can improve lead times, part functionality, and resource efficiency due to its wire feedstock flexibility and multi-material capabilities.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2025
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.