Impact of rapid manufacturing on design for manufacture for injection moulding

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 453-461

  Mansour, S ^a   Hague, R ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design for manufacturing; Design for X; Injection moulding; Rapid manufacturing; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING; DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING; DESIGN PROCESS; RAPID MANUFACTURING;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 0037722872     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440503321628134     Document Type: Article

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