Wednesday 14 May 2008

Blue Sky Ideas for Rapid Manufacturing

I have been working in the rapid prototyping industry now for nearly 6 years and have really enjoyed the challenges facing today’s technology, but what of tomorrows?

With web applications becoming ever more sophisticated and the advent of rapid manufacturing on the horizon I foresee a convergence of these processes to provide the customer with bespoke design and production solutions straight from their desktop/laptop or even PDA.

This may seem far-fetched but I believe that it will soon be possible for end user customers to make the decisions on how their product is going to look and behave in a way that is tailored just for them. This could be achieved with the integration of virtual reality or 3D web/CAD design and rapid manufacturing technology. With an efficient back end systems bespoke orders could be taken from the web and created in days in many numbers. I can see that there would have to be a template product with basic functionality but then add-ons could be chosen by the user for functional features, colour, and size could also vary.

I would welcome other peoples thoughts on this issue.

6 comments:

Mahesh said...
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Unknown said...

Today, there exists a lot of cutting-edge innovations and technologies when it comes to rapid prototyping. We at our small company usually relies on 3D laser scanning services to render more accurate computer-generated representations of any object.

When it comes to bigger projects, we've got tools like the Faro Arm (for sale in most cities in North America) which precisely delivers measurements for objects regardless of size. These tools bring rapid prototyping to further developments.

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