The Application of Rapid Prototyping manufacturing

  What is rapid prototyping manufacturing?
    

 Rapid Prototyping (RP) is an advanced manufacturing technology when developed rapidly in the 1990s and provides service for development of new product in the field of manufacturing. It plays a proactive role in promoting enterprise's product innovation, shortening new product development life cycle and improving product competitiveness. Since PR comes to life, the technology has been widely applicable for manufacturing industries around the world, and thus creating an emerging field of technology.

 As a whole technology group, rapid prototyping integrates with a set techniques of CAD/CAM, laser, CNC, precision servo drive and new materials, directly driven by the CAD model can quickly create arbitrarily complex shape of three-dimensional physical entity. Different types of PR system have different molding principle and system features due to PR are used different materials. However, applicable principles of most of PR systems are almost the same, manufactured by layer-making and layer-by-layer stacking.
Where can we see rapid prototyping manufacturing? 
1)     Design verification and function verification during a new product.

2)     Gaining great advantage over Manufacturability, Assemblity Inspection and Supply Request and Marketing, the RP method is used to test and design the complex systems of limited space, such as automobile, satellite, missile, and assembly, finally drastically reduced design and manufacturing difficulty of system.

3)     Instant and direct production of single part, small batches and special complex parts

4)     Rapid tooling manufacturing. It is commonly used for Low melting point alloy mold, silica gel mold, metal cold injection mold and ceramic mold etc.

The application area of rapid prototyping manufacturing?

1)     Automobiles and motorcycles: Appearance & interior parts design, modification, assembly experiment, trial production of engines and cylinder heads.

2)     Home appliances: the Appearance and structural design of various home appliances, assembly experiment and functional verification, marketing, and mold manufacturing.

3)     Communication products: Design of product shape and structure, assembly experiment, function verification and mold manufacturing.

4)     Aerospace and aviation: Direct production of special parts, trial manufacturing of impellers, turbines, blades, trial production of engines, and assembly experiments.

Conclusion

Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing almost covers every industries, including Medical treatment, Human engineering and Heritage conservation etc. With technology improvement, its application will be wider and wider.

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