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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2015.31.1.art00069_1</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20150101)2015:1L.311;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">s69.phd</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2015/00002015/00000001/art00069</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Modeling build time, process energy consumption and cost of material jetting-based Additive Manufacturing</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Baumers</surname>
            <given-names>Martin</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Wildman</surname>
            <given-names>Ricky</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Tuck</surname>
            <given-names>Chris</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Dickens</surname>
            <given-names>Phill</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hague</surname>
            <given-names>Richard</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2015</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>311</fpage>
      <lpage>316</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>This paper constructs a combined build time, process energy consumption and cost estimator for an Additive Manufacturing platform of the material jetting type (Stratasys Objet Connex 260). Unlike previous estimation approaches, this paper develops a model of build time that reflects
 the movement of a print head depositing material in the build process. In a series of validation experiments, this approach produced accurate build time estimates in the majority of cases. The observed absolute errors range from 4.00% to 39.18% for build time estimation and from 2.58% to 48.28%
 for process energy consumption, exhibiting an overall mean absolute error of 15.31%. The proposed build time estimator is compared to two more general specifications, one treating deposition time per layer as fixed and one relating total build time to deposition area per layer. It is shown
 that both alternative specifications produce greater estimation errors.</p>
      </abstract>
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