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Hooked Up. Author: Jean Thilmany. Mechanical Engineering, April, 2004. The advantages and practice of using on-line quoting services such as those from MfgQuote.com and Quickparts. Several specific cases are discussed.
From CAD model to prototype: quality parts "speak" for processes at 3-Dimensional Services. Tooling & Production, Dec 2003. A company profile of 3-Dimensional Services, a rapid prototyping firm located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The company's founding and additional capabilities are discussed.
Will the RP Service Provider Survive? Authors: Todd Grimm and Terry Wohlers. Time Compression Technologies, Nov., 2003. With the advent of much lower cost 3D printers, the market is in flux. Service bureaus need to think about their business strategy and plan for a future that will look very different than the past. A must-read for anyone contemplating going into the SB business.
Where Are My Parts? - An Insider's Point of View. Author: Chad Buchanan. Time Compression Technologies, March, 2002. How to select and use an RP service bureau.
The Prototype Factory. Author: Wolfgang G. Trapp. From Modern Machine Shop, April, 1999. A description of how a German RP service bureau, Hofmann Modellbau, uses a variety of rapid prototyping and tooling processes to speed customers' product development cycles.
Advantages to using RP services, technology; An alternative to traditional justification of RP. Author: Todd Grimm, Director of Marketing, Accelerated Technologies Inc. From: Tooling & Production, December, 1999. Offers advice on working with a service bureau and the gnarly, difficult to quantify problem of justifying a rapid prototyping system purchase.
