Rapid Manufacturing (eBook, PDF)

An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age
Redaktion: Hopkinson, Neil; Dickens, Philip; Hague, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rapid Manufacturing is a new area of manufacturing developed from a family of technologies known as Rapid Prototyping. These processes have already had the effect of both improving products and reducing their development time; this in turn resulted in the development of the technology of Rapid Tooling, which implemented Rapid Prototyping techniques to improve its own processes. Rapid Manufacturing has developed as the next stage, in which the need for tooling is eliminated. It has been shown that it is economically feasible to use existing commercial Rapid Prototyping systems to manufacture series parts in quantities of up to 20,000 and customised parts in quantities of hundreds of thousands. This form of manufacturing can be incredibly cost-effective and the process is far more flexible than conventional manufacturing. Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age addresses the academic fundamentals of Rapid Manufacturing as well as focussing on case studies and applications across a wide range of industry sectors. As a technology that allows manufacturers to create products without tools, it enables previously impossible geometries to be made. This book is abundant with images depicting the fantastic array of products that are now being commercially manufactured using these technologies. * Includes contributions from leading researchers working at the forefront of industry. * Features detailed illustrations throughout. Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age is a groundbreaking text that provides excellent coverage of this fast emerging industry. It will interest manufacturing industry practitioners in research and development, product design and materials science, as well as having a theoretical appeal to researchers and post-graduate students in manufacturing engineering, product design, CAD/CAM and CIFM.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470032862
• Artikelnr.: 37289668

Autorenporträt

Neil Hopkinson is a lecturer in the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. Having obtained his PhD in Rapid Tooling in 1999, Neil began to look into the economic viability of Rapid Manufacturing. Inspired by the findings of this research Neil began to investigate lowcost, high-speed Rapid Manufacturing processes while also focusing his research on material properties in powder-based layer manufacturing processes. To date Neil has secured over £1 million of research funding and published over 40 journal/conference papers; he was also an invited visiting lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia. Phill Dickens is Professor of Manufacturing Technology and Director of the Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre at Loughborough University, UK. He is also Associate Dean of Research for the Engineering Faculty. Phill started work in the area of Rapid Prototyping in 1990, working on processes such as 3D Welding and using copper coated SL models as electrodes for EDM. The research work has changed emphasis since then from Rapid Prototyping to Rapid Tooling and is now concentrating on Rapid Manufacturing. Richard Hague is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Rapid Manufacturing Research Group at Loughborough University, UK. He has been involved with Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing (RM) research since 1993, and is now Principal Investigator on several large EPSRC, DTI and EU funded research projects. He was also instrumental in setting up and managing the successful Rapid Manufacturing Consortium that now operates from Loughborough. Richard has many academic publications in the area of Rapid Manufacturing and is referee to several international academic journals and conferences. He also holds a patent that was gained as part of his PhD studies which is licensed to the predominant manufacturer of Rapid Prototyping equipment (3D Systems Inc.).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Editors. Foreword (Terry Wohlers). 1 Introduction to
Rapid Manufacturing (Neil Hopkinson, Richard Hague and Phill Dickens). 2
Unlocking the Design Potential of Rapid Manufacturing (Richard Hague). 3
Customer Input and Customisation (R.I. Campbell). 4 CAD and Rapid
Manufacturing (Rik Knoppers and Richard Hague). 5 Emerging Rapid
Manufacturing Processes (Neil Hopkinson and Phill Dickens). 6 Materials
Issues in Rapid Manufacturing (David L. Bourell). 7 Functionally Graded
Materials (Poonjolai Erasenthiran and Valter Beal). 8 Materials and Process
Control for Rapid Manufacture (Tim Gornet). 9 Production Economics of Rapid
Manufacture (Neil Hopkinson). 10 Management and Implementation of Rapid
Manufacturing (Chris Tuck and Richard Hague). 11 Medical Applications (Russ
Harris and Monica Savalani). 12 Rapid Manufacturing in the Hearing Industry
(Martin Masters, Therese Velde and Fred McBagonluri). 13 Automotive
Applications (Graham Tromans). 14 Rapid Manufacture in the Aeronautical
Industry (Brad Fox). 15 Aeronautical Case Studies using Rapid Manufacture
(John Wooten). 16 Space Applications (Roger Spielman). 17 Additive
Manufacturing Technologies for the Construction Industry (Rupert Soar). 18
Rapid Manufacture for the Retail Industry (Janne Kyttanen). Index.