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News Release from: EOS Electro Optical Systems | Subject: E-Manufacturing at hannover Fair
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 April 2008
EOS show e-manufacturing from CAD data
EOS will demonstrate its e-Manufacturing solutions for fast, flexible and cost-effective production from CAD data next week's Hannover Fair in Germany.
EOS will demonstrate its e-Manufacturing systems that offer fast, flexible and cost-effective production from CAD data at the Hanover Fair from April 21-25, 2008, Hannover, Germany The jointly sponsored RapidX event will be held in Digital Factory, hall 17, and will show how small series and batch-size products are manufactured using EOS technology - without tools - in a few hours
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Working in close collaboration with Hubtex, a specialist in industrial trucks and side loaders, EOS will demonstrate the different e-Manufacturing applications.
* Short time to market - RapidX completes the route from the design study via ergonomic tests to the model and production using e-Manufacturing.
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EOS told manufacturingtalk.com that Hubtex relies on flexible production technologies such as e-Manufacturing to deliver 'one-offs', customised products and small series within very short time frames.
One scenario describes the path from the design study of an integrated steering wheel to ergonomic tests.
The STL file of the model is then handed over to EOS, where the wheel is produced with e-Manufacturing.
Conventional methods would require days or even weeks from concept to final product.
Laser-sintering, however, delivers the steering wheel within hours.
Furthermore, the wheel components are significantly reduced; where conventional methods require five parts, e-Manufacturing builds the product in a single step, eliminating 100 percent of assembly time and costs.
The manager of design and development at Hubtex, Achim Otterbein, said: "e-Manufacturing enables us to speed up our production processes and to manufacture much more flexibly".
Other best-practice examples and comparisons displayed at the booth further underscore the efficiency of the technology.
* Survey - an EOS survey about the future prospects of e-Manufacturing has exposed a growing demand for such complex components and individualised mass production ('mass customisation').
Apparently, mass customisation is gaining increasing importance in the West, said the EOS survey.
* Guided tours - RapidX also includes 'Guided Tours' in which participants will be able to watch individual phases of the process chain with 3D glasses, and also experience the 'live' production process with e-Manufacturing.
Other partners at RapidX are the following * Autodesk.
* Gotha Design and Marketing.
* CADEXperience.
* ICIDO.
* E and H Formtechnik Entwicklung.
* SolidCAM.
The initiative is led by the NC Gesellschaft.
* About EOS - EOS was founded in 1989 and is today the world leading manufacturer of laser-sintering systems.
Laser-sintering is the key technology for e-Manufacturing, the fast, flexible and cost-effective production of products, patterns or tools.
The technology manufactures parts for every phase of the product life cycle, directly from electronic data.
Laser-sintering accelerates product development and optimizes production processes.
EOS completed its business year 2006/2007 with revenues of EUR 59.7 million, representing an increase of 14% compared to the previous year.
The company employs more than 250 people worldwide, more than 200 of them at its headquarters in Krailling near Munich, Germany.
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