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Subtractive and additive manufacturing technology in moulding industry
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Abstract(s)
This report is a review of additive and subtractive manufacturing
techniques. This approach (additive manufacturing) has resided
largely in the prototyping realm, where the methods of producing
complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model
without part-specific tooling or knowledge. But these technologies are
evolving steadily and are beginning to encompass related systems of
material addition, subtraction, assembly, and insertion of components
made by other processes. Furthermore, these various additive
processes are starting to evolve into rapid manufacturing techniques
for mass-customized products, away from narrowly defined rapid
prototyping. Taking this idea far enough down the line, and several
years hence, a radical restructuring of manufacturing could take place.
Manufacturing itself would move from a resource base to a
knowledge base and from mass production of single use products to
mass customized, high value, life cycle products, majority of research
and development was focused on advanced development of existing
technologies by improving processing performance, materials,
modelling and simulation tools, and design tools to enable the
transition from prototyping to manufacturing of end use parts.
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Plastic injection Mould Project design DMLS