Academic Achievements

One of the greatest issues is that in Rapid Manufacturing (RM) the consequences of the failure of a product is by far greater than if the product is a prototype, where for example it might just cause a delay in design development.

This research had the following objectives:

• To design a Reliability Management framework to be used in this specific sector of the industry. The focus was in LS (Laser Sintering) technology which is widely used for the purposes of Rapid Manufacturing.
• To identify whether the Literature of Reliability Management is applicable in the area of RM.
• To make know to the RM companies the importance of Reliability Management

The outcome from this research was: 

• Creation of the first Reliability Management framework for Rapid Manufacturing.
• Identify the issues that affect Reliability in RM.
• Gather questionnaires from all over the world and have interviews in UK in order to acquire the knowledge in RM

The objective of this research was to help a PhD programme in Rapid Prototyping, where the position of the parts inside the building chamber plays an important role to the cost, reliability, quality of the product. The more parts you create in one machine run, the building cost per part is decreasing dramatically.

This programme was receiving the data in the form of a CLI file. The input were object layers that would be the projection of the object in one dimension. Then, one after the other, the layers were calculated correctly and they were positioned in different positions according to the positioning algorithm called "No Fit Polygon" until the optimum solution was found.

The programme was created in the computer language C, and it will be used for further research in this area of optimisation for the positioning of polygons.

During his undergraduate studies in the context of Product Innovation module, Konstantinos in cooperation with two colleagues of his (Petros Bellos and Vassilis Papadopoulos), designed and developed a baby's beaker. This project was awarded with the highest mark as far as it concerns the university module.

Because of the result in the development stage, the owners of this innovative product were encouraged from their professor Dimitris Karalekas (University of Piraeus) to protect their concept by receiving a patent.

The baby's beaker was successfully patented in 2007 from the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation. For your further information and research the patent is internationally classified as: A47G 19/22, A61J 9/06. B65D 47/24, B65D 23/10. 

At a second stage, Konstantinos was trained to the use of the dispatcher console used to control the handsets. After this trainning, Konstantinos was positioned in key areas like the Olympic stadium and the Ministry of Marine and Merchantile in order to help the authorities cope with the difficulties from the installation of this project.

The benefits from this project were numerous. Some of them are presented below: 

• Konstantinos gained interesting experience from programming the handsets and could understand the way the handsets were programmed as far as it concerns the technology of this IT project.
• He got easily used to the new role and could work effectively and with discipline with the rest of the programming team to reach the targets put from the supervisor.
• This experience also gave Konstantinos the idea of how an IT project is implemented and feel the mentality of someone who works in this kind of projects as an individual contributor.