‘Rapid Product Development’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Modelmaker expands 3D printing with Objet Alaris30 from Objet Geometries, which we summarised at the time by saying "Crawley Creatures, a specialist in animatronics, robotics, prosthetics and model making, has installed an Objet Alaris30 3D printer from Object Geometries to expand its prototyping capacity.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Schaublin CNC turning centre for medical machining from Schaublin Machine Tools: "Schaublin Machines has announced that Clada Medical and Alta Science have selected the 102TM CNC turning centre for intricate micro-machining.".
 
In March 2010, we covered the news from Autodesk - take a look at Autodesk expands Clean Tech Partner Program which says: "Autodesk has announced that it is expanding the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program to European clean-technology companies.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Auma, Auma brochure supports SA range of actuators, as well as Data and report capture systems for food companies from Loma Systems, and 434/PWR analyser uncovers energy waste from Fluke.
 

Latest stories...
Insert grades for titanium milling performance (March 2010)

Sandvik Coromant has launched two coated insert grades - S30T and S40T - for Coromill cutters that are said to provide higher levels of titanium milling performance.

Ondrives selects Inova gear for measuring accuracy (March 2010)

Wenzel has announced that it has sold its first Inova gear to Ondrives.

Flexnet 9.4 compatible with Windows 7 environments (March 2010)

Apriso has announced that the complete Flexnet 9.4 product suite is now compatible with Windows 7 environments.

Ascent selects Eyelit asset management software (March 2010)

Eyelit has announced that Ascent Solar Technologies has selected its Manufacturing Software Suite for use in its photovoltaic (PV) thin-film solar module factory.

Mill-turn centre features three-station changer (March 2010)

Okuma's mill-turn centre combines the power of a 45kW CNC lathe with that of a 37kW machining centre capable of removing 610cm3/min of S45C steel using a f100 face mill.

WNT shows tool-vending system at MACH 2010 (March 2010)

WNT will launch several cutting tool products, unveil its latest catalogue and promote its Tool-O-Mat tool-vending system at the MACH 2010 exhibition.

Micro Metalsmiths develops model engine prototype (March 2010)

Micro Metalsmiths has developed a rapid prototype of a model engine for Ripmax.

LCM offers customised load-measuring pins (March 2010)

LCM Systems designs, manufactures and supplies load-measuring pins (LMPs) for a range of applications.

Back to top Back to top

Further reading
  • SMART idea for Rapid Product Development

    The Rapid Product Development Group (RPDG) is launching a new and innovative project to demonstrate the capability of components built using state-of-the-art Rapid Prototyping technologies.
  • 3 Steps to Successful Rapid Product Development

    The 3 Steps to Successful Rapid Product Development Seminars at 3T's site in Newbury have proved extremely popular and the company now has a new Sales Office, recently opened, in Telford.
Newsletter sign up

Request your free weekly copy of the Manufacturingtalk email newsletter ...

A Pro-talk Publication

A Pro-talk publication