Design for Rapid Manufacturing Functional SLS Parts
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Mass customisation requires flexible and fully automated production technologies. Layered Manufacturing Technologies (LMT), in the application of Rapid Manufacturing (RM), demonstrates high potential in a production chain where product design is generated automatically based on physical and/or personal requirements. The business unit Design and Manufacturing of TNO Science and Industry, performs research on Rapid Manufacturing (RM) technologies like multi material inkjet printing, micro SLA and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) in order to elevate these processes to a level where they can be used as true Rapid Manufacturing. This paper presents the ongoing studies done on the SLS process, focussing on materials properties and reproducibility, RM texturing software, coatings for SLS parts and design rules for SLS. This paper concludes with a simple yet illustrating example of the application of Rapid manufacturing using intelligent design approach.
TNO Identifier
953812
ISBN
9780080451
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Source title
Intelligent Production Machines and Systems - 2nd I*PROMS Virtual International Conference 3-14 July 2006
Pages
389-394
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