Gabriele Tredozi and Franco Cevolini look at a MotoGP collaboration which has resulted in a new racing bike camshaft cover.
Companies are using direct digital manufacturing (DDM) in substantial and growing numbers. DDM, which is also called rapid manufacturing, is a process that uses additive fabrication technology to manufacture end-use parts directly from CAD data.
Nanotechnology is now finding applications in numerous consumer products, ranging from sunscreen and cosmetics to sporting goods and guitar strings. In the field of rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing, nanotechnology is also now offering advantages to new product development teams.
Laurence Messé looks at how stereolithography materials are currently used in a limited manufacturing capacity for specialist parts.
Although rapid manufacturing got off to a good start, rapid prototyping soon overtook in terms of breadth of applications. But now there are two trends that are worth a closer look: the more widespread use of rapid manufacturing, and the convergence of rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing. Alistair Rae reports.
Sørlandets Aluminiumprodukter in Kristiansand, Norway, designs and manufactures products for marine environments and the offshore industry.
Cocreate Software is releasing the 2007 Cocreate Onespace Suite. Speed, flexibility and responsiveness to change are characteristics of a dynamic modelling-based approach to 3D product development.
Eos Systems is releasing the latest version of its Photomodeler software. Photomodeler 6 is the result of three years of development to enhance the already well-acclaimed version 5.
Seemage is launching Seemage 4.0, which is said to improve product deliverables while reducing costs and improving productivity.
Peter Waldmeier reports on innovative tooling systems used for the production of heatable moulds incorporating electrical resistor heating technology for vacuum infusion and low temperature prepreg processes.
Livia Cevolini reports on how rapid manufacturing techniques were used in the design of intake manifolds for dyno tests and headlight washer cover flap for a street car.
Reverse engineering is a subject that offers significant benefits in the overall effort to reduce the time-to-market for new products, yet the same term is also used to describe the practice whereby an existing product is copied by first finding out how it works and then producing a low-cost ‘look-alike.’
The non-contact, capacitive miniature displacement measurement system has been specially developed for applications requiring integration into machines and systems. All electrically conducting materials can be used as targets.
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