Over the last ten years, laser-sintering has matured from a technology for rapid prototyping of plastic models to a family of technologies for fast, flexible and cost-effective production ranging from manufacture of single parts to mass customization, fully automatically and directly from electronic data. The range of applications today is already very broad and includes, for example: To cover this wide range of applications, the term e-Manufacturing has been chosen.Recent innovations relating to laser-sintering machines, materials, accessories and post-processing methods have increased the range of applications by improving the properties of the parts, and at the same time improved the economics by increasing the productivity and simplifying the process chains. This paper summarizes those innovations, presents an overview of the current state of the art with a focus on small- and large-series production, and makes some predictions for further technical and market developments.


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    Title :

    Trends and Prospects for e-Manufacturing Using Laser-Sintering in the Automotive Industry


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    First National Conference on Automotive Infotronics ; 2003



    Publication date :

    2003-08-22




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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