Hello Terry,
In the state of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, there
is an PhD research group, called CIMJECT, at the
"Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina". Ours
researches include de use of CAE/CAD/CAM and
rapid prototyping & tooling to produce injected
plastic parts, among others.
For example, there are two reserches (one PhD thesis and
one Master thesis) about Direct AIM and one about QuickCast
(master) to be concluded in the next months.
We work with different softwares
(C-Mold, Moldflow, Solidworks, PowerMill, etc.)
and one of ours machines is an SLA-250.
You can have more information about
us on our homepage, unfortunallty the
language is portuguese. The link to our homepage
also present on 3D Systems homepage.
Or ask me...
Sorry about my poor English,
Best regards,
Ricardo Gomide
At 10/28/99 4:33:00 PM, you wrote:
>Pedro Gago wrote:
>
>> I´m very interested in make a complete characterisation of the Brazilian
>> Market of Rapid Prototyping .
>
>
>Pedro,
>
>I had the pleasure of visiting several companies in Brazil last month, in
>addition to an industry event that included RP in both its conference and
>exhibition. With few exceptions, most organizations are only now becoming
>familiar with the basics of RP. Two service bureaus, Flag and Robtec, are
>leading the way. Bene Padovani of Stratasys (based in Sao Paulo), as well
>as the Instituto Superior de Tecnologia, a highly respected engineering and
>manufacturing research and educational institute in Joinville, Santa
>Catarina, are also helping to educate companies in a positive way.
>
>Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer of airplanes, is beginning to explore
>what RP has to offer, but they are brand new to it. Tupy, the largest
>foundry in Brazil and one of the largest in the world, is also in the
>beginning stages of evaluating RP's potential. Meanwhile, Multibras (now
>owned by Whirlpool) has been successfully producing laser sintered parts
>for kitchen appliances for considerable time. The footwear industry in
>Brazil is big (correction: huge) with an estimated 5,000 manufacturers.
>Some of them, including a company that I visited in Rio, are beginning to
>look at RP.
>
>If you step back and view Brazil's RP activity as a whole, you will find
>that it has been limited to date. An estimated 16 systems have been
>installed in the entire country through the end of last year. This
>compares favorably, however, to its neighboring countries including
>Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Peru, and Uruguay, each having installed only
>one system through the end of last year. The growth potential and interest
>level of RP in Brazil are quite high.
>
>Terry
>
>**********************
>Terry Wohlers
>Wohlers Associates, Inc.
>OakRidge Business Park
>1511 River Oak Drive
>Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 USA
>970-225-0086
>Fax 970-225-2027
>twohlers@compuserve.com
>www.WohlersAssociates.com
>
>For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
>
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jun 05 2001 - 22:53:15 EEST