- Making the leap to rapid tool
making.
Rapid prototyping of tools and dies offers an economical alternative to traditional machining. Rapid Tool Making (RTM), a technology that adopts rapid prototyping (RP) techniques and applies them to tool and die making, is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional machining. The move from traditional machining methods to RTM ......
- Get to know lasers and their roles in
plastics.
Lasers are gaining ground fast in welding, cutting, engraving, marking, sintering, flame polishing, drilling, and photo-polymerizing of plastics. Here's a primer on the different types of lasers and where they fit. Plastics processing is one of the fastest growing application areas for laser technology. In recent years, development of new ......
- Conference information + registration brochure: April
25-26, 2006 Rock Financial Showplace * Novi, MI.
Welcome to Moldmaking expo 2006: engineer, build, repair The premier showcase for technologies and strategies used in moldmaking and additive fabrication including 27,000 square feet of exhibits, two full days of technical sessions, networking events, contests, awards and much more. Meet face-to-face with industry educators, product innovators and fellow moldmakers ......
- RAPID PROTOTYPING: PUSHING THE CUTTING
EDGE.
RAPID PROTOTYPING: PUSHING THE CUTTING EDGE In 1994 three high-school friends--two brothers, Corey and Donavan Weber, and Alex Fima--started a rapid prototyping company in Carlsbad, Calif. Early on it was just the three of them; today, the company has more than 100 employees and three profitable spin-off businesses: Directed ......
- Desktop plastics manufacturing leads news at AutoFact
'89.
Desktop Plastics Manufacturing Leads News at AutoFact '89 A new entry in the growing field of "desktop manufacturing" headed the news for plastics processors at AutoFact '89, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Automated Factory exhibition held recently in Detroit. The show topped off a decade that brought engineering computing out ......
- Rapid metal
HEADNOTE Rapid manufacturing and rapid tooling for metal parts gain support IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Laser-based Direct Metal Deposition from POM Group deposits fully dense metal to create new tools or repair existing tooling. Speeding manufacturers' time-to-market with rapid manufacturing and rapid tooling techniques remains an elusive goal. Originally a tool ......
- Will that be plastic or metal?
(Computing).
Polymer Technologies Inc. of Clifton, N.J., provides research, development, and manufacturing services to government, aerospace, commercial, and medical markets. For some of this work, the company uses a metal injection molding process, or MIM, a method of fabricating net-shape metal, ceramic, and metal-ceramic components using technologies more commonly associated with ......