Rapid Prototyping
for Competitive Advantage:
Technologies,
Applications and Implementation
for Market Success
Paul T. Kidd
1997, ISBN 1-901864-00-6
Chapter 2 - Purpose and
Summary
- The purpose of this chapter
is to provide brief details of application examples and to identify
the main points that each case illustrates.
- Overviews of 31 application
examples from different sectors are provided. The sectors addressed
include automotive, aerospace, electrical and electronic, consumer
goods, and medical technologies.
- Benefits are described.
These often involve time and cost reductions on the production
of prototypes.
- Additional benefits which
normally fall under the heading of enabling innovation are also
evident, for example the development of new testing procedures.
- A number of the application
examples illustrate the implementation of rapid prototyping technologies
within the context of wider organisational changes, for example
the establishment of concurrent engineering design practices.
Dealing with these organisational changes is a key issue.
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