Marshall,
Very interesting and a great job gathering and posting the page. Despite
all of the examples the you have found I believe that my comments are valid.
As much as I love the RP industry I could never with a clear conches sell
the processes as "Rapid Manufacturing" or "Direct Manufacturing". There are
still way too many stumbling blocks to overcome: accuracy, consistency,
speed, repeatability, limits on feature size....Just to name a few!
Karl Denton
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Subject: Review of direct manufacturing threads
Dear RP-world,
One of the hottest topics of discussion on the RP-ML in 1999 was
the use
of fabbers ("rapid prototyping") for direct manufacturing, not just
for
prototypes. The two major threads on this subject have been
collected
together and posted on Ennex.com at
http://www.Ennex.com/fabbers/RP-ML/mfg.sht.
In August 1999, an engineering student by the name of Sean
Gladieux made
his first posting to the RP-ML, not knowing what a debate his
inquiry was
about to launch. Sean described a project in which he was planning
to
compare the cost of making a machine part directly in a fabber
versus making
it by "traditional" means. He asked the list if anyone else had ever
looked
into this before. A number of people responded who had indeed spent
a good
deal of time either thinking about or actually doing direct
manufacturing by
fabbers.
Then, in November, veteran RP-ML correspondent Elaine Hunt
posted an
inquiry asking who on the list had produced "a model that was the
final
product" and what kind of results they got. Again, there were a good
number
of informative responses.
Please take a look at this new page. It makes for some
interesting
reading. If people want to make any additional comments on those
threads,
I'll add them to the page.
(People on the "Cc" line of this message are the people who
participated
in these threads. Please let me know if you see any errors.)
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
President, Ennex Corporation
Marshall@Ennex.com
Los Angeles, USA, (310) 397-1314
http://www.Ennex.com
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
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