Flexible tools in mould and formwork making: a review

The reconfiguration of tool parameters in clay extruder

“…Having been low-cost and easy-to-operate, reconfigurable tooling strategies can be employed to transform craft tools. It enables the manufacturing of a family of products rather than one-off and unique products with available tools and techniques (Oral and Colakoglu 2020). By using changing or moving parts with manual, machine or robot control, reconfigurable tools allow experimentation with the material, resulting in novel production workflows (Asut, Eigenraam, and Christidi 2018;Raun and Kirkegaard 2015;Tessmann and Mehdizadeh 2019).…”

“…In the literature, the customization of tools mainly relies on the moveable mechanisms which enable the variation of building components. These mechanisms are designed by parameterization and reconfiguration of existing tool parts and functions (Oral and Colakoglu 2020). Pin-based tooling, partsbased molds, polymer, and fabric-formed molds are developed to reduce lead-time, cost, and waste in producing differentiated units out of one mechanism.…”