PRESENTED BY: esi-group.com DATE AND TIME: OCTOBER 25, 2017 11:00 AM ET PRESENTERS ALAIN TRAMECON Product Manager, Composite Performance, ESI Group While the weight saving potential of advanced materials--such as [...]

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When you're doing production prototype work for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), you've (1) got to be good and (2) you've got to be able to prove it. Which is what [...]

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On the campus of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, is a 9,000 ft2 laboratory where they're building a wide variety of prototypes--from bumpers to spoilers and almost [...]

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Rapid prototyping (RP)--the technology for creating a physical model directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) solid model--has grown quite a bit since its introduction in the early 1990s. For starters, [...]

Rapid prototyping

When you think "rapid prototyping" via 3D printing you might think of models that aren't particularly robust, models that are more show than go. But materials and equipment providers are [...]

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"All the additive fabrication technologies have limitations," admits Fred Fisher, product marketing manager for Stratasys Inc. (Eden Prairie, MN; www.stratasys.com). "We will never replace injection molding, for instance. But the [...]

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When setting out to build a car capable of surpassing 1,000 mph, strong but light materials are required for a vehicle to move faster than a bullet fired from a [...]

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A mere 17 years ago this month, stereolithography debuted at the Autofact show in Detroit. This ushered in rapid prototyping (RP), the process of creating physical models out of plastic [...]

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Direct metal laser-sintering (DMLS) is different than common machining/ milling techniques, which produce parts by removing material. DMLS is an additive process: a part is made by "growing" it in [...]

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When stereolithography and rapid prototyping (RP) were introduced at Autofact in 1986, a seat for 30 CAD software and a high-end workstation was $40,000 to $50,000. Now, 30 CAD software, [...]

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When it comes to rapid prototyping (RP), there are a variety of available systems, but one statement holds true across them: "Materials are critical," says Mervyn Rudgley, senior director for [...]

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Stratasys, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN; www.stratasys.com) is the exclusive North American distributor of the "CAD to Metal" process from Arcam AB (Molndal, Sweden; www. arcam.com). This process uses electron-beam melting (EBM) [...]

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Honda usually doesn't make the short list when it comes to radical styling. They've got quality and reliability nailed, but traditionally not many heads have turned as a Honda or [...]

Hyundai Corp. and Rapid prototyping

All global automakers have design shops with clay modeling and a bevy of rapid prototyping machines. Hyundai Mobis (mobis.co.kr) is the first, and according to the company, the only supplier [...]

As wind tunnel testing becomes more prevalent in order to achieve the best-possible aero, you might want to check out a material that is used by some Formula One engineers [...]

Stratasys (www.stratasys.com) claims its new FDM 200mc rapid prototyping and manufacturing system can build parts with better detail and material strength. FDM 200mc utilizes a new ABSplus material that has [...]

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Realtime Technology (www.rttusa.com) is changing the way suppliers and OEMs interact with CAD data through its DeltaGen visualization software, which renders 3D images of vehicles and components in real-time for [...]

Who: Ketco Inc. (Dayton OH) What: "Foam 8 Fill" contract pattern services for composite tooling and prototyping Why you should care: Ketco claims that its process quickly creates high-quality, cost [...]

Rapid prototyping

NO STRANGER TO THE TECHNOLOGY. "We at Ford have been using additive manufacturing for over 25 years," Ellen Lee, Team Leader, Additive Manufacturing Research, Ford Motor Co. says. Admittedly, much [...]

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When will rapid prototyping of plastic parts hit the production floor? And when It does, could just about all durable plastic parts be the made-to-order variety without the need for [...]