...Chiu‐Chi Wei Tolerance assignment plays a vital role in reducing the manufacturing cost, and most optimization models for assigning the tolerances tend to ignore the process capability of the machine. Therefore, the quality loss due to nonconforming parts can be unacceptably high. Proposes a non...

...Anna Kochan Focuses on the recent boom in research on rapid prototyping (RP), particularly in the area of eliminating the stepped surface of the RP model, as evidenced by the papers expounded at the 5th European Conference on Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing, held in Helsinki. Reports...