...Steffen Schrock; Stefan Junk; Albert Albers Purpose This study aims to investigate a systematic approach to the production and use of additively manufactured injection mould inserts in product development (PD) processes. For this purpose, an evaluation of the additive tooling design method (ATDM...

...Christoph Klahn; Filippo Fontana; Bastian Leutenecker-Twelsiek; Mirko Meboldt Purpose Additive manufacturing (AM) allows companies to create additional value in the processes of new product development and order fulfillment. One of the challenges for engineers is to identify suitable parts...

... 03 2019 25 03 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Product development Fused deposition modelling Layered manufacturing Rapid prototyping Optimization AM = additive manufacturing; DFX = design for X...

... 2016 09 06 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Product development Rapid prototyping Fused deposition modelling Printing industry Auto-level plate Rapid application development The new manufacturing technique...

.... Process and material advancements open up new applications and manufacturing (through RP) is serving non‐traditional industries. RP technology is used to support rapid product development (RPD). The purpose of this paper is to describe how the Integrated Product Development research group of the Central...

... automation technology and services through promotional approaches as described in this paper. Originality/value The paper focuses on a cooperative endeavor to infuse leading‐edge design technology into rural product development. Steve Tennyson can be contacted at: stennyson@boisestate.edu ©...

... for the jumped containers and the mounting solutions in the automatic container sorter equipment (not shown to avoid design violation, reason patent pending). Product development Prototypes Rapid prototypes Today manufacturers experience immense pressure to provide a greater variety of complex...

...Wang Guangchun; Li Huiping; Guan Yanjin; Zhao Guoqun In recent years, rapid prototyping (RP) and rapid tooling (RT) technologies have been implemented in many aspects of industry, especially in the area of new product development. Based on RP and RT technologies, the paper proposes a rapid design...

...Alain Bernard; Alexandre Deglin; Gabriel Ris This paper introduces a knowledge‐based environment dedicated to the choice of rapid product development processes. Rapid product development processes are not limited to layer‐manufacturing machines, but they also integrate CAD, reverse engineering...

...Thomas Himmer; Anja Techel; Steffen Nowotny; Eckhard Beyer Time reduction and quick geometrical changes of complex components and tools are currently the most important demands in product development. The manufacturing process presented in this paper is based on multiple additive and subtractive...

...Samuel M. Lopez; Paul K. Wright The impact rapid prototyping (RP) can have on the design process and the product development process as a whole is demonstrated in this paper. The speed and flexibility of RP technologies decreased the overall time to complete the new product. This also ensured...

... material structures between prototypes and actual products. Methods are thus needed to expand the application of functional testing with rapid prototypes, and thus potentially impact the performance and cycle times of current product development processes. In this context, an improved similarity method...

... and shorter product development times) have led to the higher demand (by industry) for faster availability of all kinds of prototypes. This demand resulted from the fact that shorter product life cycles lead to more products per decade, increasing the needed number of prototypes and from the fact...

... throughout the powder bed. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Engineering Product development Prototyping The recent emergence of “rapid prototyping” technologies[ 1 , 2 ] brings the potential for revolutionary advances in the speed and flexibility of product development. Rapid prototyping...