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Volume 17, Issue 3
1 September 1997
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Assembly Automation
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Technical Paper| September 01 1997

Features Rapid growth for rapid prototyping Available to Purchase

Anna Kochan
Anna Kochan
Anna Kochan is European Associate Editor for Assembly Automation
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1997
Assembly Automation (1997) 17 (3): 215–217.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159710172256

Describes applications of rapid prototyping in the automotive, healthcare and jewellery industries. Explains how Ford Motor Co.’s use of RP technology has evolved since it first used stereolithography in 1988. Outlines the benefits of RP applications in jewellery design and how RP helped Smith & Nephew to arrive at the optimum bottle shape for a new healthcare product.

Keywords:
New technology, Rapid prototyping
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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