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Tele-Manufacturing: Techniques and Applications for Rapid Prototyping on the Internet/Intranets
Published in Cornelius Leondes, Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing, 2019
In today's competitive business arena, companies must continually strive to create new and better products, faster and more efficiently than their competitors. The design and manufacture process is continually enhanced to be more responsive to changes, as well as quicker to market. Many technologies and business practices, such as concurrent engineering, just-in-time production, and design for manufacture, have been utilized to decrease design time. In addition to these enhancements, over the past decade, rapid prototyping has evolved to improve the product design cycle. Rapid prototyping is a system for creating immediate prototypes of a new design or change that is used to evaluate it or in actual application.
Introduction
Published in Fuewen Frank Liou, Rapid Prototyping and Engineering Applications, 2019
Virtually, every business uses prototyping. A wide range of businesses use prototypes, from airplane manufacturers to toy producers to computer system developers. Prototypes are one of the most useful and cost-effective quality tools businesses have. They can be a source of creativity, and they allow the user to interact with the product so the developer can receive feedback. Prototyping is not limited to product development. It can also be used as process development. Every department can use prototypes to help them excel. For example, marketing departments use prototyping to determine why consumers buy products. A nonworking mock-up of the product can be reviewed by customers prior to acceptance. Sometimes, these basic prototypes are used at trade shows. For example, the auto industry refers to them as concept cars. Rapid prototyping can be used to accelerate the design process, and it leads to high-quality, defect-free products and reduces risk. This technique has proven essential to market leaders such as Microsoft, Intel, GM, Boeing, Ford, and Cisco. In the software industry, a series of drawings that are created by the developers are used to obtain the acceptance by decision-makers. For example, sticky notes can be used when designing graphical user interfaces so that users can see the proposal.
Fused Deposition Modelling
Published in Rupinder Singh, J. Paulo Davim, Additive Manufacturing, 2018
Kamaljit Singh Boparai, Rupinder Singh, Jasgurpreet Singh Chohan
The emergence of rapid prototyping techniques revolutionized the modern industry by producing parts having complex shapes and meeting fast-changing customers’ requirements within a stipulated time period. The current rapid prototyping technologies are limited to fabricated prototypes with a small range of materials. The production rate of these prototypes is also less. In order to reduce the production time and cost, a multistep procedure has to be adopted. This multistep procedure is termed as rapid tooling. The rapid tooling offers to produce parts with a wider variety of material and in large quantities.
Enabling RDM in challenging environments via additive layer manufacturing: enhancing offshore petroleum asset operations
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
The ‘rapid manufacturing’ mostly uses all four material categories, while ‘rapid tooling’ mostly uses polymers, ceramics [i.e. tools in the endoscopy market, as well as extremely precise and strong instruments with complex designs are able to print out in a very short time frame (Krassenstein 2014)] and metals for tooling applications (Achillas et al. 2015), and, depending on the circumstances, ‘rapid prototyping’ uses the least expensive material.