iowarp/manufacturing-processes
How a design becomes a part: process families (additive and conventional), additive process parameters and their defects, build orientation, manufacturability checks, post-processing and surface finishing, and the manufacturing_expert subagent.
Name the AM process family precisely and trace it to the defect and anisotropy population it characteristically produces, before any process-specific reasoning.
Treat the complete additive process parameter set, not one energy-density number, as what determines part quality; record nominal versus verified values and qualification, and for laser powder bed fusion trace parameters to melt-pool regime, defect mechanism and texture.
Connect a part's orientation on the build plate to its resulting grain texture, surface quality, support requirement, and property anisotropy.
Evaluate whether a proposed geometry — often a topology-optimized one — can actually be produced by the intended process, before treating it as a manufacturable part.
Treat each post-processing step (stress relief, HIP, heat treatment, support removal, machining, surface finishing, peening) as producing a distinct, traceable part state; state what each step changes and what it leaves untouched, and whether a finishing process reaches every surface it must.