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ASCAMM Technology Center (Spain) Associacio Catalana d'Empreses Constructores des Motlles i Matrius (ASCAMM) provides on-line courses in time to market reduction technologies including rapid prototyping, as well as plastic materials and parts engineering, sheet metal technology, alternative engineering design techniques, etc.
Bishop Auckland College (UK)  Runs the Digital Factory, a university, government, industry collaborative training center with service bureau capability.
Bournemouth & Poole College Design Center (UK)  Offers prototyping and design services to industry.
Bath University (UK) The Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technology & IMRC is the home of The Replicating Rapid-Prototyper Project, attempting to demonstrate that RP and direct writing technologies can be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.
Bremen Institute for Industrial Technology (BIBA) (Germany) 3D geometry modeling and data transfer; RP process chains especially as applied to sheet metal fabrication.
Cardiff School of Engineering / Manufacturing Engineering Centre (Wales) University / Industry collaboration. The Centre conducts basic, strategic and applied research as well as technology transfer encompassing: robotics, condition monitoring, high-speed automation, intelligent control, rapid manufacturing, quality engineering, multi-media, virtual reality and enterprise information management.
Centre for Rapid Design and Manufacture (CRDM), Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (UK)
  In addition to rapid prototyping technology, provides extensive CNC, EDM, vacuum casting and other facilities. The Centre has recently expanded its offerings to include Direct Laser Metal Sintering (DMLS), as well. Conducts research projects in many aspects of RP/RT/RM, and offers training courses to toolmakers and associated personnel. CRDM acts as a service bureau to industry for short term projects. and organises a national conference on RP/RT/RM.
Coventry University (UK) University / Industry collaboration.
Cranfield University (UK) Robotic fusion welding and direct slicing of CAD models.
De Montfort University (UK) The Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Group has a program to develop machinery combining RP with high speed printing technology to produce parts a 1,000 times faster then current RP units. The project is in collaboration with industrial partners, including Ford Motor Corporation and Black and Decker. Another program is aimed toward the use of advanced engineering and manufacturing technology in the field of maxillofacial and orthopaedic surgery.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne [EPFL] (Switzerland) The Center for Advanced Rapid Tooling (CART) focuses on production of plastic injection molding tooling using advanced manufacturing processes such as Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), High Speed Milling (HSM), and Electric Discharge Machining (EDM). The EPFL Microsystems Institute is working on Microstereolithography using photopolymers.
Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB) (Switzerland) (Basel Institute of Technology / University of Applied Sciences)
We provide RP technology using a ThermoJet from 3D-Systems, and also provide consulting on all RP and RT technologies. Specialties and competencies include: Computer Aided Innovation, Reverse Engineering, FEA, Investment casted functional prototypes and tooling inserts. (in German)
Fachhochschule Lübeck - University of Applied Sciences (Germany)  Die dienstleistung bietet: CAD-ausbildung, Solid Edge; programmierung der variantenkonstruktion; getriebedynamik, mechanismen in der konstruktion; virtuelle prototypen, virtual reality; modellsimulation, FEM, strömung; muster- und prototypenbau mit FDM 3000; entwicklung und konstruktion von geräten; medizinische modelle für OP-planung und anschauung.
FHS St.Gallen, University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) - See Inspire AG
Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) Overview of RP by Andre Dolenc.
Institute on Laser and Information Technologies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Department of Informatics, Computer Equipment and Automatization (IPLIT RAN). Site discusses Russian developments in SLA.
inspire AG / irpd (Switzerland)  [SLM]  [A new name for FHS St.Gallen, University of Applied Sciences IRPD.] The Institute for Rapid Product Development in close cooperation with industrial associates develops powder materials for SLS and SLM, as well as process chains and follow-on operations. Four SLS powder materials used worldwide have resulted from these activities. 3D-Scanning of physical objects, data acquisition, preparation and reversing to CAD data models are further competences. Medical data elaboration directly from CT or MRI scans for the fabrication of pre-surgical planning models or the production of custom-made implants are additional activities of the institute. Applications of Layer Manufacturing technologies extend from the additive fabrication of prototypes or functional models in plastic or metal, to the fabrication of complex tooling inserts with conformal cooling, and the direct series production of small lots for Rapid Manufacturing. (in English and German)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Researching selective laser sintering (SLS) process and working on stereolithography coating techniques, and laser bending for rapidly forming sheet metal parts.
Loughborough University (UK) The Rapid Manufacturing Research Group of De Montfort University moved to Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the end of 2001. Among the Group's research topics are: design for rapid manufacture; direct fabrication by ultrasonic consolidation; laminate tooling for PU moulding; management, organization and implementation of rapid manufacturing; powder fusion of functionally graded materials; and rapid tooling for die-casting.
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
National Technical University of Athens (Greece)  Established in 1996, NTUA's RP Laboratory conducts research in the areas of RP use for new product development, RP-RT support of production methods, industrial metrology and reverse engineering (RE). The university has an LOM1015 RP system and two CMM machines (DEA, FaroArm). It has participated in National & European Union RTD programs and has been cooperating with Hellenic industries.
National University of Ireland - Galway (Nat Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science) They are working with UHMWPE, PEEK, PMMA, HA with SLS to create parts for implantation and investigating interactions of tissues with the materials.
Oulu Polytechnic Institute of Technology (Finland) Industry/university collaboration, with an emphasis on medical applications of RP.
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