The ability to respond quickly, accurately and cheaply is bringing rapid manufacturing techniques into the mainstream production arena. Rick Dove looks at production options, deliverable values and the concept of mass customisation…Solid freeform fabrication or SFF techniques have been promising a change in production options since the first stereolithography deployments in the 1980s. Small wonder that the Star Trek generation should see in this the birth of the beam-me-up-Scotty machine - pure information transmitted to a distant location and "poof!" a solid object appears.
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