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Rapid Prototyping
News Release from: DSM Somos
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2002
Company addresses advanced digital
manufacturing
3D Systems Corp and DSM Somos have launched a new company to pursue opportunities in the new and expanding field of advanced digital manufacturing (ADM), as conceived by 3D Systems.
3D Systems Corp and DSM Somos have launched a new company to pursue opportunities in the new and expanding field of advanced digital manufacturing (ADM), as conceived by 3D Systems ADM is expected to become a key enabling technology for the customisation of design and manufacturing, also called mass customisation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Advanced Digital Manufacturing will allow designers to reduce part count in the design process thus reducing part costs and assembly time.
Designers and engineers will be able to add custom features and complexity to designs not currently feasible with today's manufacturing techniques", said Grant Flaharty, executive vice president, global business operations for 3D Systems.
"The ability to manufacture a product using additive fabrication techniques will radically alter designs and manufacturing methods over the next decade and beyond", said Mervyn Rudgley, general manager of OptoForm.
"Using ADM techniques such as direct composite manufacturing and other 3D Systems technologies, existing designs can be manufactured without the costs and lead-time associated with hard tooling, and more complex designs will become easier to manufacture.
We are pleased that we have the combined resources of 3D Systems and DSM Somos, as we begin our development programme with selected Fortune 100 industrial partners", added Rudgley.
Steve Hartig, vice president of marketing at DSM Somos, said, "Over the next year we expect to develop and test new materials that will set new standards for structural performance and capability in digital manufacturing". Request free introductory details about products from DSM Somos ...
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