The advantage of additive manufacturing (AM) (e.g. reasonable time and expense in prototyping, and reliable product) has triggered the idea of using this method in manufacturing of marine vessels components. The current article tries to introduce basic concepts of AM method and its application in marine industry; have a glance at additive-manufactured parts microstructure; elaborate the challen...

A platform and methodology for real time systems on chip prototyping is presented. The JPEG case study is presented as an example of prototyping. The proposed methodology overcomes limitations of simulation approach, and can often achieve real time validation. However, the case study highlight drawbacks of prototyping platform, and point out some remaining works to make prototyping more effective.

The term prototyping has in recent years become a buzzword in both research and practice of system design due to a number of claimed advantages of prototyping techniques over traditional specification techniques. In particular it is often stated that prototyping facilitates the users' involvement in the development process. But prototyping does not automatically imply active user involvement! T...

Prototyping is an initial instantiation of a concept as part of the product development process. Prototypes serve numerous purposes both from a business and an engineering standpoint. Businesses use prototypes to gather detailed customer feedback on issues like aesthetics, ergonomics, and theme, as well as for marketing research and cost analysis. Prototyping is used by engineers to provide man...

recently, as the result of the development in modern imaging, computerized three dimensional data processing and advanced engineering techniques, an prosthesis that match the skeletal anatomy can be accurately designed from computer aided design (cad) technique and the physical model of prosthesis or skull replica can be produced through rapid prototyping (rp), rapid tooling (rt), and computer ...

The idea of designing a collaborative electronics prototyping toolbox as a persuasive technology is the guiding vision of the study at hand. Building on the state-of-the-art of current electronics prototyping toolboxes for laymen and makers, the study aims at developing a set of prototyping tools that encourages co-creation in contexts of collaborative innovation prototyping, e.g. in workshops ...

We begin with our definition of a prototype and then discuss prototypes as design artifacts, introducing four dimensions for analyzing them. We then discuss the role of prototyping within the design process, in particular the concept of a design space, and how it is expanded and contracted by generating and selecting design ideas. The following sections describe specific prototyping approaches:...

Rapid prototyping is a development method that may or may not be e ective in improving software products and process. Assessing the e ectiveness of rapid prototyping requires empirical data. We analyze 39 published and unpublished \real world" case studies of the use of rapid prototyping for developing software products. By identifying e ects mentioned in multiple sources, we are able to extrac...