Rapid prototyping and accelerated product concept design process
In today's era, the demand of the manufacturing market is constantly diversifying, high quality, high performance, low cost, high technology, on the one hand, the short-term effect of consumer interest and the increasingly subjective, personalized and diversified consumer demand. On the other hand, regional or international market barriers are weakened or broken, requiring manufacturers in manufacturing to focus on fierce competition in the global market. Therefore, rapidly bringing diversified and high-performance products to the market has become the key for manufacturers to grasp the market opportunities, which has led to the reorientation of manufacturing values from product-oriented to customer-oriented. The manufacturing strategy focuses on cost and quality. The transfer of time and response is the reason why countries are committed to the research and practice of modern manufacturing models such as CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing System), concurrent engineering, and agile manufacturing.
Rapid Prototyping technology came into being under the demands of this era. It is a general term for the rapid manufacture of 3D solids of arbitrarily complex shapes driven directly by 3D CAD models. It integrates modern scientific and technological achievements such as CAD technology, numerical control technology, laser technology, and material technology, and is an important part of advanced manufacturing technology.
Concept design is the most critical, complex, comprehensive, decisive and creative stage in product design. Its importance is reflected in two aspects: First, the conceptual design stage largely determines the performance of the final product. Creativity, price, market response speed, and efficiency, in addition, according to relevant data, although the actual input cost in the conceptual design stage only accounts for 5% of the total cost of product development, it determines 70% of the total cost of the product. Moreover, the detailed design stage is difficult or even impossible to correct the design flaws and errors in the conceptual design stage, which seriously affects product design and development.
Rapid prototyping is a high-tech that uses physical material stacking to make physical products. It can quickly and accurately manufacture the product based on the 3D model data of the product without using other tools and equipment and embodies the multi-disciplinary and multi-technology integrated application of computer-aided design, numerical control, laser processing, and new material development. Traditional parts manufacturing processes often require a variety of machining equipment and various tooling molds for vehicles, clamps, milling, planing, grinding, etc., which are costly and time-consuming. A more complex part, with a processing cycle even on a monthly basis, is difficult to adapt to low cost and high-efficiency requirements. Rapid prototyping can adapt to this requirement and is, therefore, a major change in modern manufacturing technology.
Rapid Prototyping technology came into being under the demands of this era. It is a general term for the rapid manufacture of 3D solids of arbitrarily complex shapes driven directly by 3D CAD models. It integrates modern scientific and technological achievements such as CAD technology, numerical control technology, laser technology, and material technology, and is an important part of advanced manufacturing technology.
Concept design is the most critical, complex, comprehensive, decisive and creative stage in product design. Its importance is reflected in two aspects: First, the conceptual design stage largely determines the performance of the final product. Creativity, price, market response speed, and efficiency, in addition, according to relevant data, although the actual input cost in the conceptual design stage only accounts for 5% of the total cost of product development, it determines 70% of the total cost of the product. Moreover, the detailed design stage is difficult or even impossible to correct the design flaws and errors in the conceptual design stage, which seriously affects product design and development.
Rapid prototyping is a high-tech that uses physical material stacking to make physical products. It can quickly and accurately manufacture the product based on the 3D model data of the product without using other tools and equipment and embodies the multi-disciplinary and multi-technology integrated application of computer-aided design, numerical control, laser processing, and new material development. Traditional parts manufacturing processes often require a variety of machining equipment and various tooling molds for vehicles, clamps, milling, planing, grinding, etc., which are costly and time-consuming. A more complex part, with a processing cycle even on a monthly basis, is difficult to adapt to low cost and high-efficiency requirements. Rapid prototyping can adapt to this requirement and is, therefore, a major change in modern manufacturing technology.
