... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Assembly Rapid prototypes Grippers Industrial robotics Handling Man/machine interface Design for manufacture Special purpose machinery applications need relatively small numbers of adapted components. Upcoming high‐speed handling...

...Eujin Pei; R. Ian Campbell; Deon de Beer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the limitations of entry‐level rapid prototyping (ELRP) machines when fabricating objects with high complexity. Design/methodology/approach The literature review provides an overview of RP technologies...

... in the selection of appropriate technologies for MC. Manufacturing systems Rapid prototypes Mass customisation Daniel Eyers can be contacted at: eyersDR@cf.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 For manufacturers, the achievement of customised production conflicts...

... improvement regarding the success and convenience in surgery planning been reported. Originality/value This paper explores the application and viability of FDM rapid prototyping technology for fabrication of complex mandibular models used for reconstructive surgery. Esfandyar Kouhi can be contacted...

...H. Chen; T.A. Fuhlbrigge; G. Zhang; S.H. Masood Purpose This paper seeks to present an investigation on building controlled drug delivery device (DDD) matrix using fused deposition modelling (FDM) rapid prototyping (RP) process. The focus of the study is on the effect of FDM fabricated macro...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Rapid prototypes STRATASYS leads the rapid prototyping industry, according to industry report Keywords: Rapid prototypes Stratasys, Inc. has announced that it has maintained its market leader position in terms of units...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Rapid prototypes New Stratasys FDM Vantage X rapid prototyping system offers three additional material options Keywords: Rapid prototypes Stratasys has announced that a new version of its popular FDM Vantage rapid...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Rapid prototypes Stratasys receives $3.6 million order to advance rapid manufacturing capabilities Keywords: Rapid prototypes Stratasys, Inc. has announced that it has received a $3.6 million order from a Fortune 100...

... dimension for dimensional accuracy. The following sections describe these practical build issues and potential solutions in more detail. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Rapid prototypes Assembly Microenvironments Rapid prototyping (RP), also known as solid freeform...

...Jonathan Corney; Joel Quincieu; Chris Robinson; Brent Stucker; Todd Mosher Purpose This paper illustrates an effective application of rapid prototyping (RP) to produce a high definition polymer model of a satellite structure prior to final machining of the aluminum panels. The benefits when using...

...Jonathan Corney; S.H. Masood; W.Q. Song Purpose Presents development and characterisation of a new metal/polymer composite material for use in fused deposition modelling (FDM) rapid prototyping process with the aim of application to direct rapid tooling. The work represents a major development...

...Jonathan Corney; L.C. Hieu; N. Zlatov; J. Vander Sloten; E. Bohez; L. Khanh; P.H. Binh; P. Oris; Y. Toshev Purpose Aims to investigate medical rapid prototyping (medical RP) technology applications and methods based on reverse engineering (RE) and medical imaging data. Design/methodology...

.... They can be sorted in three classes according to their state: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Assembly Rapid prototypes Design and development The basic idea of rapid manufacturing processes is to create products directly from digital data without using tools and some pre...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Design for assembly Rapid prototypes Production equipment The injection moulding industry is subject to ever increasing commercial pressures, requiring companies to manufacture components at faster rates, at lower cost and of better quality...

...), South Africa, are involved in rapid prototyping (RP) applications‐based research, simultaneously using results to support small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) on a national basis – both with contract research and technology transfer[1]. SMEs in South Africa involved in product development...

...E.R. Davies; David Page; Andreas Koschan; Sophie Voisin; Ngozi Ali; Mongi Abidi Purpose Investigate the use of two imaging‐based methods – coded pattern projection and laser‐based triangulation – to generate 3D models as input to a rapid prototyping pipeline. Design/methodology/approach...

...Kathryn J. De Laurentis; Constantinos Mavroidis The application of rapid prototyping in fabricating a non‐assembly, multi‐articulated robotic hand with inserts is presented in this paper. The development of robotic systems that have all necessary components inserted, with no assembly required...

...H. Medellín; J. Corney; J.B.C. Davies; T. Lim; J.M. Ritchie This paper presents a novel approach for rapid prototyping based on the octree decomposition of 3D geometric models. The proposed method, referred as OcBlox, integrates an octree modeller, an assembly planning system, and a robotic...

...Anna Kochan Renault F1 Team UK has progressively introduced rapid prototyping technologies to actually produce the components it needs for the half‐size models of cars that it uses for wind tunnel testing. Most recently, the process is starting to find application on the race cars themselves...

... process. These issues are currently under investigation as part of an EPSRC funded research project and this paper will outline the effects of RM on the design process with the introduction of RM and give the progress of the project to date. © Company 2003 Rapid prototypes Design...