Time-Compression Technologies Magazine Archive 2002 (and backfills for previous years)
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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v7 n2 March 2002, pp 34-5
Abstract RP machines, once considered only for prototyping, are now being used by a few companies for the rapid production of manufactured products. As this idea continues to grow in popularity, companies and RP groups are viewing RP more and more as simply a method for rapid production. Spurring industry's interest in rapid production is the trend toward mass customization, where - at some point in the future - a production run could consist of just a single end-use part. Mass customization manufacturing allows manufacturers to realize all of the benefits RP has to offer. Using 3-D solid CAD tools, along with an RP system, the manufacturer can design and perfect the product by building various iterations to it. Then, once the design is perfected, the manufacturer can make customization changes to that same data file to rapid produce a customized part. XX
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