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Rapid Prototyping
News Release from: Lestercast | Subject: Rapid prototyping
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2004
Rapid prototyping technology takes off
Lestercast has used its rapid prototyping expertise to produce masking components for a company developing a highly complex coating system for aircraft turbine blades.
Lestercast has used its rapid prototyping expertise to produce masking components for a company developing a highly complex coating system for aircraft turbine blades The system allows high-temperature coatings to be applied to the blade surface to increase engine efficiency and provide fuel economies resulting in billions of pounds savings to the airline industry worldwide
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The use of rapid prototyping for this high-tech project provided a quick and efficient method of producing well-defined samples in small quantities for use in the development stages, and a cost effective route to producing the final design and product", said Malcolm Healey, Lestercast's Technical Director.
Rapid prototyping development at Lestercast has made a major contribution to the company's growth in recent years and has been used for producing metal components for both industrial and commercial applications.
"In the context of investment casting production, which uses a sacrificial wax pattern, the design and development stages for a new and particularly complex part can be costly in terms of time and money", Healey explains.
"The principle benefits of using rapid prototyping is the speed at which the solid model is generated and its ability to produce intricate three-dimensional shapes accurately from CAD drawings.
In many cases, the use of rapid prototyping technology as part of the investment casting process provides the capability to achieve complex metal shapes that are impossible to make through other methods".
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