Fab±Home: The personal desktop fabricator kit

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 245-255

  Malone, Evan ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing systems; Plastics industry; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FEEDBACK; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES;

BUILDING SYSTEMS; INVENTORS; PROPRIETARY MATERIALS;

PLASTICS INDUSTRY;

EID: 34547399078     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540710776197     Document Type: Article

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