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Mar/Apr 2012  

Prototyping

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Proto Choice

Sizing up multiple micro prototyping options

Ready to prototype that new design? Today, there’s no shortage of options for modeling microscale parts and features. These include new and tried-and-true technologies that address key prototyping concerns, such as speed, accuracy, cost and quality.

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FineLine celebrates anniversary, ISO compliance

June 15, 2011—FineLine Prototyping, Raleigh, N.C., has been serving the product development and manufacturing community for 10 years now.

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Modeling, prototyping are essential to microfluidic design

Limitations in prototyping technology can make manufacturing a microfluidic system a leap of faith—a leap into the unknown that engineers don’t like to make.

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Eye on prototyping

World-renowned Doheny Eye Institute houses innovative micromachining shop

If you’re peck-drilling a micropart, dwell at the bottom of the hole for a few revolutions before pulling out—you’ll save your drill.

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Scaled for Micro

New developments increase rapid prototyping of microscale features

Rapid prototyping is any processing method that makes a test part faster and less expensively than would be possible using the process intended to make the part in volume. The generally accepted definition, however, is much narrower. Most consider RP processes to be those involving fabrication of a solid, freeform, 3-D object based on data from a 3-D CAD file.

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Top Videos

NIST develops microscale rheometer

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently demonstrated a microscale rheometer that can make complex viscosity measurements on material as small as a 5 nanoliters, NIST reported in 2010.

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Top Products

Telan building place in PCB supply chain

With a 35-year history in contract manufacturing and printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, the Telan Corp., Hatfield, Pa., credits its success to the ability to handle small quantities, prototype PCB assemblies or large runs.

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Resonetics debuts laser micromachining system

Resonetics, Nashua, N.H., this week introduced the RapidX250 laser micromachining system for microfluidic and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices. The rapid prototyping tool best suits corporate and university research requiring rapid prototyping tolerances approaching 1µm, according to the company news release.

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Online quotes from RP company FineLine

FineLine Prototyping has rolled out a new online quoting system for customers, and it recently began offering a black, opaque material for parts made via the stereolithography (SL) process.

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Precision manufacturer offers A to Z solutions

Peridot Corp.offers complete prototyping, fabrication, packaging and distribution of precision microcomponents for general, high-tech and medical industry applications.

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Fielding Manufacturing: Miniature zinc die cast, plastic injection molded parts

Fielding Manufacturing, Cranston, R.I., manufactures precision, miniature zinc die cast and plastic injection molded components for a variety of industries. Founded in 1962, the company offers services from rapid prototyping of production parts, part design assistance for manufacturability, tool design and building, and production parts manufacturing. It also performs plating, coating and stamping of parts.

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