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Rapid Manufacturing Gains Ground, Survey FindsMass production in the Western world is on the brink of a silent revolution and e-Manufacturing is an important part of that change.
These are some of the conclusions of a survey conducted by EOS at recent trade shows in Germany.
EOS, the world-leading manufacturer of laser-sintering systems, interviewed industry experts at the K 2007 show in Duesseldorf and Euromold 2007 in Frankfurt.
Their answers confirm that industrial production is facing a paradigm shift: e Manufacturing with laser-sintering is a key technology that will strongly compete with conventional technologies, such as casting, in the future.
e-Manufacturing delivers end products, functional parts and tools directly from CAD data - that is where the "e" in e Manufacturing derives from.
A laser heats and melts powdered plastics or metals layer by layer, until the build is complete and a final product can be taken out of the system.
Whether it is jewelry, clothes, lamps, chairs or functional parts for industry that are being manufactured, e Manufacturing enables the creation of products with highly complex and filigreed structures and forms that are unthinkable geometries for conventional series production.
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