Product Development and its Comparative Analysis by SLA, SLS and FDM Rapid Prototyping Processes

International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications 2016

Choudhari, C.M.^1 ; Patil, V.D.^2

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fr. C. R. I. T., Vashi

400703, India^1

State Coordinator, NITTTR Extension Center, Pune

411 016, India^2

关键词: Comparative analysis;    Dimensional accuracy;    Fused deposition modelling;    Material shrinkage;    Product design and development;    Rapid product development;    Rapid prototyping techniques;    Selective laser sintering;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/149/1/012009/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/149/1/012009

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

To grab market and meeting deadlines has increased the scope of new methods in product design and development. Industries continuously strive to optimize the development cycles with high quality and cost efficient products to maintain market competitiveness. Thus the need of Rapid Prototyping Techniques (RPT) has started to play pivotal role in rapid product development cycle for complex product. Dimensional accuracy and surface finish are the corner stone of Rapid Prototyping (RP) especially if they are used for mould development. The paper deals with the development of part made with the help of Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Stereo-lithography (SLA) and Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) processes to benchmark and investigate on various parameters like material shrinkage rate, dimensional accuracy, time, cost and surface finish. This helps to conclude which processes can be proved to be effective and efficient in mould development. In this research work the emphasis was also given to the design stage of a product development to obtain an optimum design solution for an existing product.