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Author Crump, S Scott. Institution Stratasys, Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Source Intelligent Design and Manufacturing for Prototyping American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Production Engineering Division (Publication) PED. Publ by ASME, New York, NY, USA. v 50. p 53-60. Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Atlanta, GA, USA. 19911201-19911206.
Abstract Time compression, the ability to quickly reduce the time it takes to get new products to market, has increased the pressure on all phases of the manufacturing process. Manufacturers must find and implement time saving systems without sacrificing quality. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) provides a synergistic solution for design and manufacturing engineering: visualization models and part concept designs become accurate physical models leading to final working parts automatically and right within the normal engineering office environment. This clean running, single step operation uses non-toxic, biodegradable thermoplastic wire-like filaments eliminating liquid photopolymers, powders or lasers from the process. FDM safely generates three dimensional prototypes from 3D CAD software data reducing the new product development cycle and allowing validation of part design and production tooling. (Auth abstract) [References: 3] XX