Sources for Rapid Prototyping

Useful tools to obtain further informations are books, World Wide Web and international events on Rapid Prototyping. Proceedings of the following events are good but time consuming sources. They give an excellent overview on activities going on in research institutes and in industry. A very fast and cheap way is the use of the Internet. Additional, there are some books listed which give a good overview on Rapid Prototyping.

• Internet events
• World Wide Web
• Books
• Magazines

International events

• International Conference on Rapid Prototyping
  Contact: Theresa Bohlander, Program Administrator, Management Development
  Center, University of Dayton, 20 Anderson Hall, 300 College Park, Dayton , Ohio
  45469, USA
• Asia/Pasific Conference on Rapid Product Development
  Contact: Maria Richmond, Conference Officer, Queensland Manufacturing
  Institute, P.O. Box 4012, Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, 4113 Australia
• Rapid Prototyping in Medicine and Computer Assisted Surgery
  Contact: Prof. Willi Kalendar, University of Erlangen-N/ue/rnberg, Institute
  for Medical Physics, Krankenhausstrasse 12, D-91954 Erlangen, Germany
• Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium
  Contact: Harris L. Marcus, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 87712-1063, USA
• European Conference on Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing
  Contact: Donna Borrill, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
• International Conference on Rapid Product Development
  Contact: Dr. Wilhelm Steger, Fraunhofer-Institut f/ue/r Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA), Nobelstrasse 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
• Fundamentals of Rapid Prototyping and Applications in Manufacturing and SME Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing
  Contact: Lorie Hastie, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, P.O. Box 930, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-0930, USA
• Rapid Prototyping in Medicine
  Contact: Roger Hirons, Center for Continuing Education, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wisconsin, 929 North Sixth Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203, USA
• PATT-TECH
  Contact: DANSEI International, Inc., Fukide Building, Number 2, 4-1-21 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan
• Scandinavian Rapid Prototyping Conference
  Contact: Erika Jablanovec, IVF, Argongatan 30, S-431 53 Molndal, Schweden

World Wide Web

The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an international network of computers based on the Internet. In the past the Internet was mainly used by scientists, but recently more and more companies have access to WWW. A great number of universities are connected by this network. It contains an increasing number of documents on Rapid Prototyping. The different documents are often linked by hypertext. This allows to find easily documents without knowing the exact address of the host.

It is only necessary to know a few hosts and an endless research can be started by only clicking on highlighted words or phrases. The system links itself to the special host address, where the linked document is stored. It is only necessary to wait some minutes if the linked host is on the other side of the world. If there is no direct access to WWW, different companies offer services, however not for free. Some important addresses at universities are.

• Clemson University Product Realization Laboratory
• Cranfield University
• University of Texas at Austin
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Dayton
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Alberta Research Council
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Swedish Institute of Production Engineering Research

Books

• Automated Fabrication - Improving Productivity in Manufacturing, Marshall Burns, Ennex Fabrication Technologies, PTR Rentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 1993, ISBN 0-13-119462-3
• Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing - Fundamentals of Stereolithography, Paul Jacobs, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 1992
• Layer Manufacturing - A Challenge of the Future, The final report from the NOR-SLA project, 1992, Trondheim - Norway, ISBN 82-519-1125-7
• Software Tools for Rapid Prototyping Technologies in Manufacturing, Andr<#e9> Dolenc, Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computer Science Series No. 62, Helsinki, 1993, ISBN 951-666-393-1
• Solid Freeform Manufacturing, Kochan, D., Elsevier Science Publisher e.V., 1993 ISBN: 0 444 89652 X
• Rapid Prototyping Systems: Fast Track to Product Realization, Customer Service Department, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, P.O. Box 6028, Dearborn, Michigan 48121
• Principles of Computer Automated Fabrication, Jerome L. Johnson, Palatino Press, Inc. 1994, ISBN: 0-9618005-3-4

Rapid Prototyping magazines

• Rapid Prototyping Report, CAD/CAM Publishing, Inc. 1010 Turquoise Street, Suite 320, San Diego, California, 92109-1159, USA
• Rapid Prototyping Journal, MCB University Press Limited, 60/62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England BD8 9BY
• EARP-Newsletter, European Action on Rapid Prototyping, Bent Mieritz, Danish Technological Institute, Teknologiparken, 8000 Aarhus C, Aarhus, Denmark
• Rapid News, c/o EPC, 46 Watergate Street, Chester, CH1 2LA, United Kingdom