Objet Ltd., Computer peripherals industry, Rapid prototyping, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Three forward-thinking custom molders have taken steps to streamline their manufacturing, expand new product development, and add to their customer base--and all in a more cost-effective manner than ever before. [...]
Plastics Technology. May, 2018, Vol. 64 Issue 5, p16, 3 p.
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Microcomputer industry, Computer industry, Contract manufacturing, Computer industry, and HP Inc.
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Protolabs has built a business on speed. Today its "digital manufacturing" model is accelerating from rapid prototypes and first-run production parts to "on-demand" short-run manufacturing. It was just a year [...]
Business and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) recently launched the microArch S230, along with three new materials. This new generation of BMF's highest-resolution 3D printer is designed for applications that require ultra-high resolution [...]
Plastics Technology. April, 2018, Vol. 64 Issue 4, p124, 2 p.
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Product development -- Reports, 3D printing -- Reports, Consulting services -- Forecasts and trends -- Reports, Time to market, Market trend/market analysis, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Additive manufacturing (AM) technology--also referred to as 3D printing--continues to make its mark in plastics, with more in the industry turning to the process to accelerate product development and even [...]
Natural gas -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Plastics industry -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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The growing importance of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling was a prominent theme of the recent annual conference and design competition of the SPI Structural Plastics Div., held in Charlotte, [...]
Founding, Industrial equipment, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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* A new rapid-prototyping technique combines casting with CNC milling in a novel way create proto type parts faster than conventional rapid prototyping approaches--and it all happens in one machine. [...]
National Design Engineering Show -- 1991 AD, Plastics industry -- Technology application, CAD-CAM systems -- Exhibitions, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Rapid prototyping, a collection of computer-generated technologies used to fabricate complex 3-D plastic models directly and automotically from computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, was highlighted at the recent National Engineering Show [...]
No longer just for making prototype parts, 'rapid manufacturing' systems offer promising shortcuts to production tooling Imagine if moldmaking were this easy: First, your part concept takes shape on a [...]
Z Corp., 3D Systems Corp., Wohlers Associates Inc., Image processing equipment industry, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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* Bringing rapid prototyping capabilities in-house is becoming a reality for many plastics manufacturers, thanks to more affordable, faster, and easy-to-use 3D printers. On the market almost seven years, these [...]
Compcast Technologies L.L.C. -- Contracts, Compcast Technologies L.L.C. -- Distribution, Compcast Technologies L.L.C. -- Production processes, Compcast Technologies L.L.C. -- Innovations, Gusmer Corp. -- Contracts, Gusmer Corp. -- Distribution, Machinery industry -- Contracts, Machinery industry -- Distribution, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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A newly developed reactive casting process makes glass-reinforced nylon 6 prototypes and production parts quickly and easily from low-cost molds. Likely applications are automotive under-hood parts such as intake manifolds, [...]
HP Inc., Computer industry -- Economic aspects, Microcomputer industry, Computer industry, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Last month, HP Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., added to its growing line of 3D printers using its exclusive Multi Jet Fusion process with four new, smaller and lower-cost models aimed [...]
Prototypes, Engineering -- Services, Engineering design -- Services, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Rapid prototyping (RP) service bureaus, those firms that hire out their modeling systems and related engineering expertise, make it a whole lot easier to develop representational parts when speed counts. [...]
CAD-CAM systems -- Exhibitions, Computer-integrated manufacturing -- Exhibitions, Prototypes, Engineering, Business, Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers -- Exhibitions
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AutoFact '91: News in CAD/CAM, CIM & Rapid Prototyping As befits a recession, it was a conservative AutoFact '91 show in Chicago this past November, sponsored by the Society of [...]
Autofact Conference and Exposition -- 1990 AD, CAD-CAM systems -- Exhibitions, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Faster Design and Prototyping Are Focus of Autofact '90 Many of the new computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) products introduced at November's Autofact '90 show in Detroit are intended to [...]
Stereolithography -- Services and Sintering -- Services
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Pretty Soon, You Won't Be Able To Get Along Without It Since their first commercial launch in the late 1980s, rapid-prototyping (RP) technologies have aimed to speed up product development. [...]
Plastics Technology. April, 2001, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p43.
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Computer software industry -- Product introduction and Stratasys Ltd. -- Product introduction
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Significantly faster model building and material savings are claimed for new software that provides improved control over toolpath and model-support creation for fused-deposition modeling (FDM) systems from Stratasys, Inc., Minneapolis. [...]
M.R. Mold & Engineering Co., Brea, Calif., has introduced a larger model of its "stuffer box" for prototyping, mold tryout, micromolding, and short runs of liquid silicone rubber (LSR). It's [...]
Polypropylene -- Mechanical properties, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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* Stronger, tougher, stiffer, faster, and better-looking materials reflect the growing interest in rapid-prototyping and rapid-tooling technologies that can significantly decrease product development time and cost. Recent introductions include five [...]
Bayer AG, Powders, Pharmaceutical industry, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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Germany's Bayer MaterialScience (U.S. office in Pittsburgh) and Solid Composites GmbH have partnered to develop TPU powders for SLS (selective laser sintering), a digital rapid-prototyping and additive-manufacturing method for fabricating [...]
Plastics industry, Computer software industry -- Product information, Computer-aided design, Computer-aided engineering, Business, and Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
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The same CAD data format you use for rapid prototyping can now be fed into the latest flow-simulation software from Moldflow Pty., Ltd., Lexington, Mass. Another new software package, this [...]