... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Layered manufacturing Rapid tooling Injection moulding Stereolithography Microfabrication Plastics industry One of the most important aspects of micro-engineering is developing the micro-tool...

... systems Cost estimates Redesign Plastics industry Until the mid‐1990s, rapid prototyping (RP) was mostly used for the manufacture of prototypes. The capability of making physical objects in short time directly from computer‐aided design (CAD) models helped to cut down the production development...

... Rapid prototypes Plastics industry Manufacturing systems Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) technology is capable of manufacturing objects with almost arbitrary geometry (Sequin, 2005) – making it in this limited sense a “universal manufacturing technology.” We believe that, manufacturing...