It is necessary to incorporate technological advances achieved in the field of engineering into dentistry in order to enhance the process of diagnosis, treatment planning and enable the doctors to render better treatment to their patients. To achieve this ultimate goal long distance collaborations are often necessary. This paper discusses the various collaborative tools and their applications t...

Since the late eighties generative manufacturing methods have been established as manufacturing systems for the product development in various sectors of industries. After only used for the production of demonstration models (Rapid Prototyping) is the rapid tooling and manufacturing now able to service a steady increasing range of applications. In order to achieve this status the range of usabl...

everal manufacturing technologies that S support rapid prototyping have recently become available both in research laboratories and in the commercial marketplace. These technologiesvariously called layered manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and stereolithography-allow a part, prototype, or tool to be built by laying down material in a gradual, controlled way. By contrast, traditional man-

This research focuses on the evolution and adoption of rapid production. We investigate the ways novel rapid production technology offers competitive advantage to companies, and argue that benefiting from this technology requires significant changes in business beyond manufacturing. The study is centered on core areas that need to be addressed when adopting such rapid production technology: bus...

Necessity to use new materials, demanding functional requirements and miniaturization have led to evolution of modern manufacturing processes. Developments are taking place both in the conventional methods and unconventional methods of manufacture. High speed machining, hard machining, non conventional processes like beam, mechanical and chemical processes and additive processes like rapid prot...