Rapid prototyping for direct manufacture
By N. Hopkinson, P. Dickens. 2001
180 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Introduces the concept of using technologies collectively known as rapid prototyping (RP) for the manufacture of end‐use products rather than prototypes, and presents recent examples. Gives details of a cost analysis performed by De Montfort University and Delphi Automotive Systems (France). Discusses the findings from the cost analysis along with opinions generated from an Internet based conference held from November 2000 to January 2001. The combination of findings from the cost analysis with expert opinions generated by the Internet conference have helped to identify the potential future for rapid manufacturing. In particular covers the issues of material properties, quality control and identification of suitable products.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Software
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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Richard J. M. Hague
- Christopher John Tuck
- Martin Baumers
- Zachary DeMastry
- A. Owji
- P. Dickens
- M. Cole
- Jonathan Torres
In Mechanics of Materials
In Software
Citations in the corpus
- High cycle fatigue life prediction of laser additive manufactured stainless steel: A machine learning approach (2019, background): “Recent progress in additive manufacturing (AM) has encouraged the use of the technology beyond rapid prototyping to direct manufacture of functional parts [1-3].”
- The cost of additive manufacturing: machine productivity, economies of scale and technology-push (2016, methodology): “The following major step in the evolution of the AM industry was the introduction of the notion that these new technologies could be used as manufacturing processes for end-use products (Rudgley, 2001; Hopkinson and Dickens, 2001).”
- An approach for mechanical property optimization of fused deposition modeling with polylactic acid via design of experiments (2016, methodology): “Rapid prototyping techniques have been advancing rapidly since the commercialization of the first method, stereolithography, in the late 1980s, which utilizes a laser to cure successive layers of a liquid polymer into the desired structure (Bártolo, 2011; Jacobs, 1992; Hopkinson and Dickens, 2001; M”