The transition from analog to digital has revolutionized many fields over the past century – most notably computation and communication – and can be used to similarly revolutionize additive manufacturing technology. Digital materials are composed of many discrete, self-aligning voxels placed in a massively parallel layer deposition process, as opposed to continuous (analog) deposition technique...

Rapid prototyping has become the primary means by which assembly engineers obtain prototype parts needed for systems design. Some predict that rapid prototyping will soon evolve into rapid manufacturing. Rather than having factories full of mass production equipment, factories will consist of hundreds of inexpensive layer-based fabrication machines that can economically produce custom parts. Ma...

Introduction When Generative Manufacturing Processes had been introduced to the market in the early 1990s they were called Rapid Prototyping Processes. In the following 15 years they became an important tool especially for the product development of injection molded plastic parts. Based on improved materials and machines, today even final plastic parts can be manufactured (Rapid Manufacturing)....

aims: musculoskeletal disorders are common occupational hazards and disabilities in developing countries. this study was to assess postures and determine musculoskeletal disorders in employees of a water flow meter manufacturing factory in iran. materials & methods: in this descriptive analytical study that was done among workers of iran ensheab factory from water-counter manufacturing industry...

rapid prototyping (rp) is a technique of manufacturing parts by the additive layer manufacturing technology; where, a three-dimensional (3d) model created in a computer aided design (cad) system is sectioned into 2d profiles, which are further constructed by rp layer by layer. its use is not limited to industrial or engineering fields and has extended to the medical field for the manufacturing ...

Manufacturing companies are facing three challenges: low cost production of product, high quality standard and rapid responsiveness to customer requirements. These three goals are equally important for the manufacturing companies who want to be competitive in the global economy. Reconfigurable machining system facilitate the demand for Mass Customization Manufacturing, (MCM). The reconfigurable...

During the last decade, the development in metallic material additive manufacturing (formerly also known as Rapid Manufacturing, RM or Rapid Tooling, RT) has brought this technology from niche applications and short run tooling to be a competitive method capable of producing complex geometries in industrial grade materials, such as for example injection moulding tool inserts with integrated con...