Rapid tooling using laser powered direct metallic manufacturing process

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 480-485

  Luo, Ren C ^a,b   Chang, Cheng Lung ^b   Pan, Yen Lin ^b   Tzou, Jyh Hwa ^b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Laser cladding; Plastic injection mold; Rapid tooling; Taguchi's method

Indexed keywords

LASER CLADDING; PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDS; RAPID TOOLING (RT); TAGUCHI METHODS;

FACTORY AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INJECTION MOLDING; MACHINE DESIGN; METALLIZING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 33749681756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1568952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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