Integrated Product Development, (IPD), is a methodology to allow designers and manufacturing engineers to communicate early in the design phase of a product. One critical new tool to facilitate this early communication of ideas is rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping techniques range from soft prototypes, ie. computer models of product/process design, to actual 3D physical engineering prototypes developed from CAD model data by a variety of techniques. Current “hard” rapid prototyping techniques include Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Laminate Object Manufacturing, and Fused Deposition Modeling. The Air Force is interested in these techniques as a method of risk reduction allowing new product concepts to be investigated earlier in their design phase by all members of an Integrated Product Development Team.
Rapid Prototyping in an Integrated Product Development Environment
Sae Technical Papers
Aerospace Atlantic Conference & Exposition ; 1991
1991-04-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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