Rapid Development of an Injection Mold with High Cooling Performance Using Molding Simulation and Rapid Tooling Technology [PDF]
Micromachines, 2021 Rapid tooling technology (RTT) provides an alternative approach to quickly provide wax injection molds for the required products since it can reduce the time to market compared with conventional machining approaches.
Chil-Chyuan Kuo +3 more
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Additive manufacturing of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoset composites via in-situ thermal curing [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsFiber-reinforced polymer composites are lightweight structural materials widely used in the transportation and energy industries. Current approaches for the manufacture of composites require expensive tooling and long, energy-intensive processing ...
Carter F. Dojan +4 more
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Potential of Rapid Tooling in Rapid Heat Cycle Molding: A Review [PDF]
Materials, 2022 Marcin Nabiałek +2 more
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Applying high-performance resins in stereolitography printing to produce prototype injection moulds [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAdditive manufacturing (AM) revolutionised the modern plastics industry. Its flexibility and ability to build almost any complex geometry without the need for conventional tooling or machining is especially desirable.
Szabolcs Krizsma, András Suplicz
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How SLA rapid tooling is influencing medical device development [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2022 Medical device product development includes the validation of the end-product before mass production can commence. This validation should be completed with a device that is manufactured from the final material and with the final manufacturing process ...
Plekker Carel
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Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Technology to Assist the Development of Low-Cost Dies [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 This case study aims toward the importance of the application of rapid prototyping and tooling technology in die design and manufacturing. Many conventional machining processes of die manufacturing, including computer numeric control (CNC) machining and ...
Shehbaz Muhammad +4 more
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Rapid design and manufacture tools in architecture [PDF]
, 2002 The continuing development of rapid prototyping technologies and the introduction of concept modelling technologies means that their use is expanding into a greater range of applications. The primary aim of this paper is to give the reader an overview of
Harrison, D. +14 more
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Investigation of the suitability of a fused filament fabricated tool for incremental sheet metal forming [PDF]
Computer Methods in Materials Science, 2023 Incremental sheet forming (ISF) is a flexible manufacturing process for sheet metal parts in small to medium quantities. Successive movements of a stylus create the geometry of the sheet metal part. ISF can be performed with or without a counter tool. By
Dieter Weise* +6 more
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Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2022 In times of short product life cycles, additive manufacturing and rapid tooling are important methods to make tool development and manufacturing more efficient.
Karim Abbas +3 more
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Application of Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion for Direct Metal Tooling
Metals, 2021 The journey of production tools in cold working, hot working, and injection molding from rapid tooling to additive manufacturing (AM) by laser-based powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is described.
Nader Asnafi
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