Re: RP

From: Jungtae Hwang (J.T.Hwang@sussex.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 06 1998 - 12:13:44 EET

Dear Bauer,

I think you indicated an important aspect of RP-> RManufacturing.
Environment friendly product should be easy to disassemble. But till now the
paradox is, if we want to design product like that, it makes hard to assemble.
In the future, it will be an advantage for Rapid Manufacturing (with massive
decrease in material price)
The smashing point of RP is that it enables to avoid assembly -most labour
intensive process of manufacturing, thus human-machine interface problems could
be circumvent by RP. It is like invention of the needle of automatic sewing
machine. We call it "reverse salient" in the evolution of technology.

Bauer Juergen wrote:

> Not true.
> It can build a part inside a part.
> You couldnt do this with other technologies (except letting the fruit grow
> in bottles).
>
> Regards
> Juergen
>
> Juergen Bauer, Siemens AG, EC CS A PD
> E-Mail: Juergen.Bauer@spy.siemens.de
> Adress: Siemensstr. 13, 67346 Speyer, Germany
> Phone: +49-6232-30-2501; Fax -2110
> http://w2.siemens.de/ec/ecb/connect/auto/auto_b.htm 

--
Jungtae Hwang

Dphil Candidate
SPRU(Science and Technology Policy Research),
University of Sussex
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