From: thoms1991 (thoms1991@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 21:05:40 EET
There are methodologies out there for bringing new ideas through the product
development process. But all require a product champion who understands the
process to push things along.
Best Regards, Tom Richards, Metallurgist
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe_CM" <joemacdonald@custommotion.com>
To: "'Marshall Burns'" <Marshall@Ennex.com>; <tarla@tarla.com>; "'List:
Rapid prototyping'" <RP-ML@rapid.lpt.Fi>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: Solid Freeform Fabrication
> Marshall, Jim and list,
> Another example of how hard it is to bring a new product to market is
> cutomLAM at www.custommotion.com click customLAM. Any near-genius
> marketing collaborators out there? I am convinced 10% of something is
> better than all of a dream.
>
> Best to all for the new year.
> Regards
> Joe Mac Donald
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On
> Behalf Of Marshall Burns
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:57 AM
> To: tarla@tarla.com; List: Rapid prototyping
> Subject: Re: Solid Freeform Fabrication
>
>
>
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for your inquiry. The Conveyed-Adherent process has been
> renamed
> "Offset Fabbing." The article that the abstract you quoted is from is at
> http://www.ennex.com/Technology/paper.sht. There are no service bureaus
> for
> this technology yet because I have not yet succeeded in taking the
> technology to market. I have been attempting to commercialize it in the
> form
> of an office machine to be called the "Genie Studio Fabber." Besides the
> office market, there are also interesting industrial applications, such
> as
> very-large-capacity fabbing, metals, and automated lay-up of composite
> prepregs. A working prototype was built and construction of a production
> prototype was begun, but mostly I have learned so far how hard it is to
> bring a new manufactured product to market.
>
> If you need some RP done, Southern California has some veteran
> industry
> service bureaus, like Scicon, Solid Concepts, 3-D CAM, Rapid Product
> Solutions, and Soligen. Also, the closest technology to Offset Fabbing
> is
> LOM, and you can get that from Cubic Technologies in Torrance. For
> contact
> information on these and a dozen more shops in the area, check out Ed
> Grenda's definitive directory at
> http://home.att.net/~castleisland/sb_ci.htm.
>
> Good luck, welcome to the industry, and Happy New Year!
>
> Best regards,
> Marshall Burns
> President, Ennex Corporation
>
> Marshall@Ennex.com
> Los Angeles, USA, (310) 397-1314
> http://www.Ennex.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tarla@tarla.com>
> To: <rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi>
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 20:23
> Subject: Solid Freeform Fabrication
>
>
> > Suggestions please: I was doing some research looking for RP service
> > bureaus in Southern California or elsewhere that have a
> Conveyed-Adherent
> > process (as described below) based on sheet (paper) or thin plastic
> base
> > material....or secondarily on roll stock which is then cut to length
> as a
> > secondary process. Any help in this regard will be greatly
> appreciated.
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Jim Fallgatter
> > Tarla Products
> >
> >
> > 33 Automating Sheet-Based Fabrication: The Conveyed-Adherent (TM)
> Process
> > Author Charles L. Thomas, Kenneth J. Hayworth
> > Source Solid Freeform Fabrication Proceedings, 1996, pp 281-290
> > Abstract A new automated fabrication technology is described which
> breaks
> > the fabrication process into spatially separate layer-formation and
> > layer-bonding stages. The technique uses sheet material on a substrate
> as
> > feedstock and cuts cross-section contours into the material before
> > conveying the material on the substrate to a stacking station.
> Advantages
> > include (a) speed, (b) versatility in fabrication materials, and (c)
> > ability to fabricate hollows, embed or cast secondary materials, and
> > selectively enhance or degrade material properties on a regional
> basis. A
> > prototype fabricator has been built which automates all aspects of
> this
> > process except weeding. Applications demonstrated using this machine
> > include traditional rapid prototyping and visualization-model creation
> as
> > well as functional machines taking advantage of embedding and
> cast-in-place
> > techniques.(Auth abstract) [References: 8]
>
>
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