... Licensed re-use rights only Digitization Team working Rapid prototyping R&D Product innovation During the last decade, makerspaces have become hotbeds for technological innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling inventors to bring their ideas from sketches to the market (Mortara...

... factors that drive its superior performances in comparison with conventional manufacturing, and justify its adoption in rapid prototyping (RP) from an economic point of view. Design/methodology/approach Data have been collected through a worldwide survey. Respondents were from 105 companies adopting...

..., clusters, landmark references and burst references. Findings “Additive manufacturing,” “3D printing,” “3D powder printing,” “consolidation phenomena,” “microstructure,” “rapid prototyping,” etc., are the main hotspots of additive manufacturing. The trends of additive manufacturing generally consist...

...James E. Folkestad; Russell L. Johnson The strategic integration of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling is being used for getting product to the market quickly by resolving a long‐standing conflict between design and manufacturing. Currently rapid tooling can be produced at such reduced cost...

...Francis E.H. Tay; Yadav P. Khanal; Kwok Kuen Kwong; Kim Cheng Tan This paper focuses on the development of a distributed rapid prototyping system via the Internet to form a framework of Internet prototyping and manufacturing for the support of effective product development. The proposed methodology...