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40. An Evolution in Advancement with Rapid Prototyping Technolog

Finances, health care, and energy issues may keep making the daily headlines, but the business of rapid prototyping technologies continues to improve. From hands-on demonstrations at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Rapid 2009 event to just-announced business efforts, you'll see collaborating industries are also making progress on a number of fronts.

DE identified seven trends of intriguing RT that warrant close scrutiny: less-expensive systems, high-performance parts manufacturing, new material options, widespread medical and dental applications, innovative support processes and services, renewed activity regarding industry standards and consortiums, and systems to watch.

Whether quietly building on past success or forging ahead by introducing a fresh new approach, these are the products, companies, and rapid technologies to keep track of in the months ahead.

As interest in rapid technologies expands, so does the demand and market opportunity for lower-cost systems. Not just for university-student experiments, these machines create parts for a wide range of industrial uses, yet cost about what we paid not too long ago for an office workstation or laser printer.

Last May, 3D Systems started shipping its desktop V-Flash 3D Printer to resellers, based on Film Transfer Imaging technology at an affordable price for companies. The system creates high-quality, hard plastic parts up to 9 in. x 7 in. x 8 in.; both the eco-friendly material cartridges, which incorporate certain wear-and-tear parts, and the post-processing wash fluid can be returned to the V-Flash Recycling center.

A lot more is to come as well within the rapid prototyping and modeling systems emerging more as a market and necessity for mass-production. Stay tuned.